On Tuesday 02 March 2004 10:36, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > It used to be the case that buildworld would stress a CPU, but with > all the specialty circuitry put into CPUs these days, buildworld > probably ends up using the MMX and SSE extension silicon as a > heatsink. > > A real stress-test would be something which engages bus-interface, > integer, floating point and preferably any "extensions" as well. Audio/video codecs? I've noticed lately when ripping (gotta love that phrase) CDs on my Athlon the room gets noticeably warm. I haven't tracked cpu temps; I'll try to remember to do so when the next rip-a-thon happens. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters wes_at_softweyr.comReceived on Tue Mar 02 2004 - 16:46:55 UTC
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