On Sat, 04 Feb 2006 03:50:04 +0000, rallee2{at}comcast.net wrote:

>
>Hi Jim 
>-------------- Original message ----------------------
>From: inkleput{at}isp.com
>> rallee2{at}comcast.net said:
>> 
>> >Your experience is very telling imho in that if one can achieve what
>> >is a substantial differrence such as is 10-15 degrees C,
>> 
>> Let's average that out to 12 degrees.  And since I'm old school American
>> I now have to convert my original post to say something more like 6 or 7
>> degrees.
>> 
> Not sure I understand the connection (do you think old school
initially exaggerates? or simply prefers conservative numbers in
calculations vs reports?) but OK.

I think he's converting Celcius (or Centigrade) into Fahrenheit, but
that would be going the wrong way...

1 degree C (delta) = 1.8 (delta) F, so a difference of 7C would be
12.6F

56C = 132.8F  

(F = 9/5 C + 32)

Thermal spec on most CPU's these days is "up to 70C" - after that,
BIOS's have settings to kill power to the motherboard, or at least
throttle back the CPU's clock speed.

Where an AthlonXP would cook itself to death in under 10 seconds
(exposed silicon die (in both senses of the word "die"), a P4 would
throttle back and keep running even with no heat sink, thanks to the
heat spreader on top of the silicon - albeit at a greatly reduced
speed, it wouldn't bake, or even hang the system.  That's now standard
on all current CPU's from both AMD and Intel.

-Derek

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