I'm confused: are you cracking Wifi keys or eggs? ...'cause I'm pretty sure it's possible to cook eggs at 100degC. Not to mention male genitalia - already happened to some poor guy in Europe a few years ago. If you run this on battery, the discharging battery will add to the heat load, thus throttling the CPU faster, thus extending the battery charge. Hmm, that almost sounds like a perpetual-motion machine.
This brings up the question of why you're trying to crack your neighbour's wireless security, anyway. Other than just an excuse to exercise the thermal-protection circuitry in your new laptop :-).
-Adam Thompson athompso@athompso.net (204) 291-7950 - direct (204) 489-6515 - fax
-----Original Message----- From: roundtable-bounces@muug.mb.ca [mailto:roundtable- bounces@muug.mb.ca] On Behalf Of Robert Keizer Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 22:28 To: Continuation of Round Table discussion Subject: [RndTbl] Computational usage
Well I thought I'd share this with everyone, interesting screenshot at the least. I found a usage for all the compute power my new laptop has, including the gpu. Note the load in the background terminal.
Also: turns out some laptop bios's are smart enough to clock down and not let you clock back up within a given timeframe if they hit 99C. GPU was most likely hotter, but its rated for I think 150C.
Rob