Re: [gentoo-amd64] Processor Temprature

[Drew <drew.kay@gmail.com>]

> If your compiles aren't failing and sed/gcc or anything that deals with
> floating point numbers isn't failing, you're not too hot or too overclocked
> or, as my dumb donkey thinks, not overclocked enough.

That's not quite true Jason. You can have a chip running hot enough
it's introducing errors into the computations but not crashing apps.
Try a Prime95 torture test and see what I mean. It calculates Mersenne
Primes and under the torture test trys to recompute a number of
mersenne primes. Because it's testing against a known good value, it's
able to detect if any of the math calculations are unstable due to
heat.

And yes I do overclock. :P Running an Athlon XPm 2500+ @ 2.5GHz(stock:
1.8GHz). Temps never crack 40c on air cooling and the rig is rock
solid.


-Andrew
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