Subj : Re: About To Blow A Gaske
To   : DIGITAL MAN
From : ROB MCCART
Date : Mon Jun 20 2005 07:55 pm

RM> > Speaking of...  This is really odd..  I still use quite a few
  > > DOS programs (Win 98 DOS) and with warmer temps I was watching
  > > the processor temps more closely the last few days..  It's cooled
  > > down again, barely 70f in here today, but my processor, that usually
  > > can run virtually anything in Windows up to mid-level Games and
  > > stay at 52c, will run itself up to 63c - 65c just doing mail in
  > > a DOS Mail Reader or playing Dos games designed to run reasonably
  > > well on a 386. I dunno why it gets so hot running those...
  > > (P4 3.0 GHz Prescott - 512 ram)

DM>Check your CPU utilization (using Windows task manager or the like).

I did.. It was bouncing between 0.6% and 1.2%
Doesn't sound like it should be overheating, does it...   B)

It doesn't even warm up using other smallish Windows games
that show 15% processor use or so..

Considering that 64 bit processors run 32 bit software
even slower than 32 bit processors the logical explanation
might be that 32 bit processors really don't handle 16 bit
programs all that efficiently..

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