On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:52:31PM -0700, David A. Gatwood wrote: > On Sat, 20 May 2000, Sergio Brandano wrote: > > > I do not know why I am wasting time with this issue. Anyway, I have a > > very different experience on cooling both cars and computers. All the > > cars I happen to see do run the fan after shutdown (I can clearly > > hear the quiet after shutdown, then the sound of the fan after a few > > seconds). This is probably due to a different design for countries > > with a warm weather, as you report otherwise. Concerning computers, > > and Linux, it is running this OS that the situation improved, as far > > as Intel processors are concerned. I can say that the cpus, before > > the advent of the caged P-II, where so cold that I could safaly touch
Well, ... not so long ago i fried a Pentium 200 because i forgot to connect the fan ... and believe me, it was not cold when i touched it, ... > > them. This was, again, using Linux. Using MS-Windows, instead, I > > could *not* do the similar thing for sure. And I have been using > > Intel processors for a long, long time. I have a very different > > experience with PPC. I purchased my first one last summer, and it is > > damn hot. How is that Linux does not help here? How is that PPC is > > claimed to be cooler than Intel? > > Don't compare Apples and Oranges. You're comparing a Pentium II to a G3. > A PII is somewhere near a PPC 604 in terms of speed. If you touch a 604 > heat sink, in my experience, it's luke warm even after running for several > hundred days continuously under linux. Been there, done that. Also it depends if your are using a tower or desktop casing, instead of a laptop. The laptop is tiny, has no big cooling box and i think most heat of your laptop comes from your harddisk, graphic chip, memory and DVD drive. > For a fair comparison to the G3, you need to consider at least a Pentium > III (at about half again faster clock speed ;-). well, i think the pIII are less watt hungry, since they are done in a smaller process. IBM is advertissing their G3 as using less than 6Watss, while PII used more than 20/30 watts, not to compare with the fast athlons which use 50 watts and up. and since used watts are dissipated more or less into heat, ... Friendly, Sven LUTHER
