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by neogodless
1686 days ago
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Wow! This brings back memories. I don't remember which generation of CPUs this was.. maybe Pentium III or AthlonXP. But there was an issue in Windows where the chip would overheat when idle. There was an app called Rain that you could download and it would just keep the idle process from running away and causing heat. I may need to research this on my lunch break and report back. EDIT: Here's a related thread: https://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1060257 |
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The Pentium IIIs were the first CPUs that could consume enough power to cause heat problems if not throttled. OSes didn't yet anticipate that; they didn't yet have the concept of issuing halt instructions when there was no application work to do, they just let the CPU spin faster on a waiting-for-message loop. The OS makers soon recognized the need, and halting the CPU became built in to the OS by the time of either Windows 98 or 2000, so yeah, in the interim, tools like Rain were what you used.