Supid question.. I think

[Kurt]

wait states?

I hope it's running _after_ the CPU intensive program...

[Fred H]

Errr..how does this program keep the CPU cooler?

Read the support on the site, it expalains how it works and much more.
I can't and even if I could I won't answer HOW it works. It is NOT my program.
Try it yourself, if you dont beleve. It is harmles and you can uninstall itt if you want.
I am an user and it does really keep my CPU cooler when I start it.
However, some configuration is needed.
Good luck...
Fred H

P.S. I removed the original tape on my Taisol cooler and I used Arctic Silver 2. It works fine.
And I am using toothpaste 2x a day. Sometimes 3x but not to my CPU

[UtwigMU]

It issues a Halt command on idle which 9x is incapable off and which NT did at least since version 4.0 ('96).

CPU was cooler on idle in NT 4.0 compared to 98 when I was running dualboot of the two.

If you have NT 4.0, 5.0 (2k) or 5.1 (XP) it's IMO useless.
If you have 9x and your hardware supports NT, 2k or XP I advise you to switch to serious OS.

As for SMART reading, MBM (Motherboard Monitor) does that and much more.

[Kurt]

"Halt" is what I was looking for...entirely different from "wait"

[Brian R.]

A relatively rough CPU surface may transfer heat more efficiently to grease than a smooth surface - more surface area.

[Chrono_Wanderer]

It does? cool.

But won't u get more surface area when the surface is smooth: everything is touching the HS, no "bumps" causing the Heat Spreaders to not making contact w/the HS

I thought that's why we use thermal grease: to fill in the bumps at a "microscropic" level. for more heat transfer. (which is why we only use a very very thin layer when doing so.

[Wombat]

Originally posted by Brian R.
A relatively rough CPU surface may transfer heat more efficiently to grease than a smooth surface - more surface area.

Yup, Chrono is quite right. No grease out there is anywhere near as efficient at heat transfer as metal-metal contact. Grease is just preferable to air bubbles, that's all.

[BuddMan]

Originally posted by UtwigMU
It issues a Halt command on idle which 9x is incapable off and which NT did at least since version 4.0 ('96).

CPU was cooler on idle in NT 4.0 compared to 98 when I was running dualboot of the two.

If you have NT 4.0, 5.0 (2k) or 5.1 (XP) it's IMO useless.
If you have 9x and your hardware supports NT, 2k or XP I advise you to switch to serious OS.

As for SMART reading, MBM (Motherboard Monitor) does that and much more.

That's what I thought. Heh, another useless old program...

[Jon P. Inghram]

Win98 supports the halt instruction just fine, at least as long as ACPI was properly detected during installation.

[BuddMan]

Heh, well I'll remember that the next time I install 98.

[Marshmallowman]

Not a problem with intels, but athlons will not get the full benefit of doing a "halt" unless the mobo supports (or has been tweaked) to decouple !? from the system bus(wording may be incorrect), this is a problem with almost all via boards, I am not to sure if newer boards have sorted this issue yet.

But at idle with it set up correctly it should get you 5C or so cooler.

At 100% load it will make very little difference.