The Most Stupid Thing You've Heard

[Bonka]

I run Prime95 for most of the day. I also have my MBM CPU temp displayed on the system tray as well, reading it as fast as it can (1 sec interval). Anyways, while I'm loading and browsing the OCers forum, everytime I go to certain threads, I see my load temps go down from 40c to 37c. If I go out of that certain thread, it will go back up again? This is probably one of the most jacka** things you've ever heard, but it just happens.

Right now, the thread I was reading was this one:
http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=72123

My cpu temp drops here. Even as I write this thread up, my load is at 40c, but if I toggle browser windows to the other one, it will jump down to 37c.

What the hell is this?

Sorry I don't have a camcorder to record this crap in action, here are 2 very quick screenies taken together:

Browsing the thread link at the top:
http://members.shaw.ca/bonka/images/damn1.jpg

Browsing this thread:
http://members.shaw.ca/bonka/images/damn2.jpg

UGLY I say!

 

[AntiHeiss]

It just seems as though some of the members here at overclockers.com are cooler than others.

Truthfully I have no idea. Could be a bug I guess.

 

[Christoph]

Wow!! If this real, I can hardly wait to see what you come up with on April 1st. I believe you, but I don't even have an inkling of an inkling of what it could be. Thanks for posting, though.
I advise you to keep that page open and in the foreground.

 

[Hoot]

I've seen this on several burn-in programs. Think about it. These programs develop their heat by working the CPU as hard as possible running a mathematical calculation. If you interrupt that process to access the internet, even just refreshing MBM, the calculation has to restart, either where it left off, or all over again. That pause, however brief, is far less a load on the CPU than running the calculation and the immediate temperature will go down. An interesting foot note is that you can tell how effective a burn-in program is by how slow other processes run when you launch them while it is running. In Prime95, with the priority set to 10, it often takes me 4 to 5 seconds just to interrupt it. Other applications slow down to almost a standstill. Ditto on BurnK7.

Hoot

 

[Tweak]

I've seen this on several burn-in programs. Think about it. These programs develop their heat by working the CPU as hard as possible running a mathematical calculation. If you interrupt that process to access the internet, even just refreshing MBM, the calculation has to restart, either where it left off, or all over again. That pause, however brief, is far less a load on the CPU than running the calculation and the immediate temperature will go down. An interesting foot note is that you can tell how effective a burn-in program is by how slow other processes run when you launch them while it is running. In Prime95, with the priority set to 10, it often takes me 4 to 5 seconds just to interrupt it. Other applications slow down to almost a standstill. Ditto on BurnK7.

Hoot

To me this seems like the best explenation to this problem of yours. I have no exsperience in this area but it seems like a good enough idea.