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Offline Fineus

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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....
 

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Reply #1 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.
 

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Reply #2 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


Afte rformatting.  I'd used 6 GB of my 160 GB hard drive.
 

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Reply #3 on: May 09, 2004, 03:27:52 pm
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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. ;)
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Reply #4 on: May 09, 2004, 03:30:20 pm
that's what you think ;)
 

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Reply #5 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.
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Reply #6 on: May 09, 2004, 04:31:23 pm
But you did wipe clean your HDD's. :p
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Offline Stealth

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Reply #7 on: May 09, 2004, 04:46:02 pm
you must not have set them in the right order.
 

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Reply #8 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.
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Reply #9 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...
 

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Reply #10 on: May 10, 2004, 01:06:37 am
Where's Magneto when you need him?
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"The very essence of tolerance rests on the fact that we have to be intolerant of intolerance. Stretching right back to Kant, through the Frankfurt School and up to today, liberalism means that we can do anything we like as long as we don't hurt others. This means that if we are tolerant of others' intolerance - especially when that intolerance is a call for genocide - then all we are doing is allowing that intolerance to flourish, and allowing the violence that will spring from that intolerance to continue unabated." - Bren Carlill
  

Offline WMCoolmon

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Reply #11 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
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Reply #12 on: May 10, 2004, 01:32:55 am
or maybe the drive was ubberfraged
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Reply #13 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
 

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Reply #14 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.
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