Author: Andre van Ark
Date: 08:26:28 11/03/04
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Hi Eelco, I would advise him: 1. throw away that standard AMD heatsink and buy yourself a decent one. 2. Chessprogramms use the cpu mostly 100%, so if you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen and play patience instead of chess ;) Kind regards, André On November 03, 2004 at 09:49:19, Eelco de Groot wrote: >Posted a week ago by Pusaeus on Rebel Board. What do you think guys? I told him >the level at least does not make a difference. > >"I have to admit that I regret I bought this program. When playing at the lowest >level (For beginners/step 1 (!)) the CPU temperature rises from 36C to 67-67C. I >don't want to fry my CPU so I avoid long playing sessions and do not experiment >with the program at it's full capacity. I suspect there is nothing to do about >this problem besides buying more fans, which I do not intend to do. >Technical specifications: Windows XP, AMD Athlon XP2000+ 1.67 GHz and 512 MB >RAM."
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