From: richard (rpritz_at_rcn.com)
Date: Fri Aug 06 1999 - 11:58:34 EDT
At 09:27 AM 8/5/99 -1000, David Ross wrote:
> > NT4 seems to run a touch cooler than win98se, although I don't understand
> > why this would be the case. (Other than temperature and a few minor
> > issues, I see no difference between nt and win98).
>
>Easy. NT (like OS2 and *unlike* W9x) will add halt cycles to parts of the
>CPU not being
>used. This is the basis for CPU cooling programs (e.g. Rain, Waterfall,
>CPUIdle), which can
>bring down the temperature of a Pentium machine by quite a bit (20%
>decrease on our home
>desktop machine temp using Rain) with no visible decrease in performance.
Rain does a nice job of reducing temperature under win98.
Cool <g>
Now I have no real reason to run NT.
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