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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Fineus on May 09, 2004, 11:12:46 am

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: Fineus on May 09, 2004, 11:12:46 am

Here's something odd I've just run across... I just formatted my primary drive to clean all the crap off it and so forth... something of a spring cleaning. Anyway the system now seems to run a full 10 degrees cooler. It's not the room temperature, time of day or anything like that... I've not touched the hardware.

Not that I'm complaining....

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: SadisticSid on May 09, 2004, 11:45:34 am

Then you must've wiped off something that was eating up the CPU or graphics card, or accessing the drive constantly, or making use of some other hardware that generates the heat.

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: Stealth on May 09, 2004, 02:50:37 pm

i had the exact same thing happen to me actually.  although not as much as you did

Both screenshots were taken after 12 hours of idling, with only default processes running.  they were taken 2 days apart from each other, so i know it wasn't because my house was hotter/cooler or anything.

Before formatting.  I'd used 18 GB of my 160 GB hard drive
(http://www.swooh.com/lorenzo/beforeformat.JPG)

Afte rformatting.  I'd used 6 GB of my 160 GB hard drive.
(http://www.swooh.com/lorenzo/afterformat.JPG)

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: Sandwich on May 09, 2004, 03:27:52 pm

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Originally posted by SadisticSid
Then you must've wiped off something that was eating up the CPU or graphics card, or accessing the drive constantly, or making use of some other hardware that generates the heat.

That would be my guess as well; magnetic particles being aligned one way or another don't have any effect on temperatures in this universe. ;)

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: Stealth on May 09, 2004, 03:30:20 pm

that's what you think ;)

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: Sandwich on May 09, 2004, 03:36:21 pm

Oh? Hmmm....

*sets up supermagnets all around house in vain attempt to cool things down*

Nope, guess not.

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: Taristin on May 09, 2004, 04:31:23 pm

But you did wipe clean your HDD's. :p

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: Stealth on May 09, 2004, 04:46:02 pm

you must not have set them in the right order.

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: mikhael on May 09, 2004, 06:14:03 pm

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Originally posted by Sandwich
Oh? Hmmm....

*sets up supermagnets all around house in vain attempt to cool things down*

Nope, guess not.

You're not doing it right. Extremely intense magnetic fields have been used for dropping temperatures down near absolute zero, Sandwich.

Sound can do the same thing.

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: Stealth on May 09, 2004, 07:05:11 pm

OK

so buy a few dozen 18" subwoofers, and place them all around your house.

Sandwich, you know what to do...

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: Sandwich on May 10, 2004, 01:06:37 am

Where's Magneto when you need him?

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: WMCoolmon on May 10, 2004, 01:27:18 am

Maybe it's the contents of the hard drive that's causing the temperature change.

Did you have any hot or steamy content on your hard drive before the format? :p

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: Bobboau on May 10, 2004, 01:32:55 am

or maybe the drive was ubberfraged

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: Fineus on May 10, 2004, 02:47:59 am

Uh... ran disk defragmenter the week before the format (and I ran it fairly regularly anyway) so I don't think it was that.

WMC, all the steamy stuff is on a separate drive :p

Title: Clean Format = Cooler System?
Post by: Bobboau on May 10, 2004, 03:14:58 am

I think the disk defragger is like a fisher-price program, just there to make you go "look at me mommy I'd defragging the hard drive!" I've never had the thing do any good for me.