Conclusions
Our experimental results and analysis indicate that when
sufficient memory is available to a computationally intensive
load, the CPU utilization to the load is near one hundred
percent. This in tum could result in significant CPU
temperature-rises in case of a poor CPU cooling system
The authors suggest that in order to avoid excessive
temperature-rises due to execution of a heavy computational
load, one might consider carefully devised software-intempts
to provide the CPU with some respite from computation.
However, this should be performed in a manner that does not
lead to excessively prolonged CPU processing times. For
example, in our research we noticed that the processing time
increased rather substantially when the CPU was operating at
elevated temperatures (note the CPU processing times for fan on These results should be particularly helpful to individuals
and organizations that heavily use PCs in computation,
database processing, multimedia, and networking.