I was messing around with an old computer today, going for the lowest 3DMark06 score in the world (At which I think I succeded - 13 points, ORB says there's 0 slower computers) and just fucking around. I decided to stick in an old Celeron 433 (Which operates at 2 volts VCore (!)) and see how long it'd take until it burned out.
It turns out that it can actually handle it pretty well, and it would idle at under 50C (It's at 47 when this is being posted), so I decided to boot up to Windows and put some load to see if it'd make it. It did.
I ran SuperPI and saw the temp climb; 50C, 60, 70, 80, 90 (Here I started thinking "It's gotta die soon!"), 100, 110, 120, until it finally leveled out at 128C, not loosing any performance at all, still responding, still calculating PI. So I decided to do a classic, put water on it:
It turns out that it can actually handle it pretty well, and it would idle at under 50C (It's at 47 when this is being posted), so I decided to boot up to Windows and put some load to see if it'd make it. It did.
I ran SuperPI and saw the temp climb; 50C, 60, 70, 80, 90 (Here I started thinking "It's gotta die soon!"), 100, 110, 120, until it finally leveled out at 128C, not loosing any performance at all, still responding, still calculating PI. So I decided to do a classic, put water on it:
Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2008-03-09 14:00:47)
The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP
