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mmm, burning metal
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 8:32 pm
by Jonathan
I can't stress how important it is after you've disabled all the power management features on your system to keep your heat sink's fan on.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 10:34 pm
by quantus
what metal have you been smoking?
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 11:05 pm
by Jonathan
bits and pieces of my prescott. mmm, burning processor.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 11:07 pm
by quantus
that's a nice couple hundred dollar mistake. Oh well, testing goes on.
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2003 11:09 pm
by quantus
btw, shouldn't the thermal diode have responded by signalling the processor to throttle down the frequency until it didn't cook itself?
Re: mmm, burning metal
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 12:19 am
by Jonathan
Dwindlehop wrote:I can't stress how important it is after you've disabled all the power management features on your system to keep your heat sink's fan on.
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 12:50 am
by quantus
I was thinking power management meant speedStep, not something so fundamental...
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 12:54 am
by Jonathan
quantus wrote:I was thinking power management meant speedStep, not something so fundamental...
speedstep is only a mobile feature. northwoods have themal throttling, which is feature to prevent cpu from burning up. prescotts have other features, which i have no public links to send you to.
i didn't actually break the processor in question. it's running spec happily at the moment. it sure smelled good, though. like stinky old solder.
a guy i know has been working on power management, which involves conducting lots of experiments at the maximum power draw for the system. he's burned up a couple board and a processor, as i recall.
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:51 am
by bob
Dwindlehop wrote:northwoods have themal throttling, which is feature to prevent cpu from burning up.
This essentially means that when you're reading something poorly written, like Star Trek/Card Captor cross-over fanfic, it saves power by not letting the CPU get excited. But something with strong thematic overtones will get full power.
Posted: Thu Aug 14, 2003 4:05 am
by VLSmooth
I so need to write an otakon report. Damn procrastination and image server not being up yet...
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 6:26 pm
by bob
VLSmooth wrote:I so need to write an otakon report.
Yes. Yes you do. And it should be in the style of a fanfic. I will expect young girls with large breasts, and the main star, perhaps Vincent Leeshue Jr, getting into sexually awkward situations and screwing things up, thus preventing him from actually getting any nookie. Wow! That would be so hilarious! Hell, maybe
I'll write an Otakon report.
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 6:32 pm
by Alan
You should make your Otakon report an entire anime series.
26 episodes, 14 of them being fillers.
Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2003 7:44 pm
by quantus
just 14 or 26 are fillers? Wow, that's still a lot of content.
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2003 2:31 am
by VLSmooth
There are actually quite a few good series coming out nowadays, but I suppose everyone's too busy to watch. Of course, boredom takes priority, right?

Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 3:38 pm
by Alan
I still need Hikaru no Go and Azumanga Daioh. And there was something else I was watching too I think but I forget.
fyi
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 4:11 pm
by VLSmooth
Azumanga Daioh is complete at 26 eps
Hikaru no Go is complete at 75 eps
Hmm... I also have to help Peijen with a "certain" series that's 118 eps and going... maybe something will pop up this week.
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 6:14 pm
by Alan
Clearly I need the rest of those series then.
Re: fyi
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2003 7:39 pm
by Peijen
VLSmooth wrote:Azumanga Daioh is complete at 26 eps
Hikaru no Go is complete at 75 eps
Hmm... I also have to help Peijen with a "certain" series that's 118 eps and going... maybe something will pop up this week.
so are you going to set up ftp server for the rest of us?