ME hotter than 2000

[RJ]

Why does WindowsME run hotter than W2K ? By about 5*c without a load

[iznogoud]

r u sure it's a generalized fact or is it just your pc? it's well possible anyway, maybe bcos the idle program is not as good. i know win98 definatley runs hotter than win2000, and i have to use cpuidle, but under 2000 theres no need.

[asmodean]

Win95 based OS's don't execute the HLT command when they're doing nothing. I read somewhere that starting from 98SE, they should, with ACPI installed. I really don't think they do, but I could be wrong.
NT based OS's do execute the HLT command.
That's where the temp difference comes from.

[RJ]

temp is definitely hotter than 2000. Idle with 2000 is 38*c, ME 43*c I had to knock down the MHZ to 1460 to make it stabile, water cooling is looking better every day