Michael Lovett
Member
On my sp3 i7, I've been a bit of load testing... mostly to see if my unit is going to experience some of the heat related problems others have noted.
I fired up a movie, and 4 copies of a cpu intensive program that runs calculations that take hours each to complete.
On the plus side, the UI did not become unresponsive, unlike on my prior laptop.
However, what I saw surprised me - as the sp3 heated up (to 104 externally) the cpu utilization and speed both dropped - to about 34% utilization (down from 100%) and down to .9 gig hz!
In other words, I think in order to prevent overheating the unit slows everything down to let the unit cool off.. is this right?
If that's the case, it makes the sp3 a bit problematic as a desktop replacement. How would a developer of software understand the speed metrics of his application if the os/cpu are slowing things down to accommodate heating issues??
Michael
I fired up a movie, and 4 copies of a cpu intensive program that runs calculations that take hours each to complete.
On the plus side, the UI did not become unresponsive, unlike on my prior laptop.
However, what I saw surprised me - as the sp3 heated up (to 104 externally) the cpu utilization and speed both dropped - to about 34% utilization (down from 100%) and down to .9 gig hz!
In other words, I think in order to prevent overheating the unit slows everything down to let the unit cool off.. is this right?
If that's the case, it makes the sp3 a bit problematic as a desktop replacement. How would a developer of software understand the speed metrics of his application if the os/cpu are slowing things down to accommodate heating issues??
Michael