Re: Pismo status

On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 10:52:31PM -0700, David A. Gatwood wrote:

On Sat, 20 May 2000, Sergio Brandano wrote:

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 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, ...

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 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

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