[vox-tech] [OT] Windows Question for Relative

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Sun May 8 20:05:19 PDT 2005


On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 05:47:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Sun, May 08, 2005 at 12:58:34PM -0700, tech_dev(Alex Mandel)
> (tech_dev at wildintellect.com) wrote:
<snip>
> 
> > The other thing to think about although this is nit picky is to look
> > at the case cooling situation. Dell is very bad about this. You can
> > download a free program(for home use) called Everest to check the ram
> > performance and CPU temp.
> 
> Cooling won't affect performance.  It will affect component longevity.

I think the idea here may be that some CPUs can slow themselves down if
they get too hot, or something.  Maybe I'm thinking of laptops?
Maybe I should stop pretending to know anything about modern PC
capabilities. ;^)


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