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Subject: Re: CPU temperature

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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