On Jan 1, 2004, at 2:35 PM, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
Tim May wrote:
I'm skeptical of this claim. A lot of Intel and AMD and similar
machines are running full-tilt, "24/7." To wit, Beowulf-type
clusters, the Macintosh G5 cluster that is now rated third fasted in
the world, and so on. None of th
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On 1 Jan 2004 at 10:44, Tim May wrote:
> Further, junction-to-case temperature in a ceramic package
> has a time constant of tens of seconds, meaning, the case
> temperature reaches something like 98% of its equilibrium
> value (as wattage reaches, say, 60 watts, or whatever), in
> tens of s
On Jan 1, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Riad S. Wahby wrote:
Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Now I grant you that I haven't tested CPUs in this way in many years.
But I am skeptical that recent CPUs are substantially different than
past CPUs. I would like to see some actual reports of "burned
literally" C
Tim May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now I grant you that I haven't tested CPUs in this way in many years.
> But I am skeptical that recent CPUs are substantially different than
> past CPUs. I would like to see some actual reports of "burned
> literally" CPUs.
I've never seen a "burned literall
