On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:38:15 -0600, Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Yes, for the PC. The fact that many PCs are designed with marginal, > at best, cooling is no secret at all. They are not designed to > run with maximum CPU utilization 24/7. The GIMPS program, for example, > is known to cause machines to overheat, and comes with a test for > that particular effect. Many machines cannot participate in the GIMPS > because of that. I suggest you research this well-known phenonmenon. How is this not a hardware problem? How would you propose that some random piece of software that needs to do a CPU intensive task avoid this problem? Why should any software developer feel compelled to write bad code to cover up bad hardware design? Mike
