Jaime Vives Piqueres <jai### [at] ignoranciaorg> wrote:

> > As an example, we once(*) had a report on these newsgroups of POV-Ray
> > producing strange stray white pixels in the output image; after some
> > research, it turned out that this guy had apparently been operating his
> > CPU (also some AMD, btw) without adequate cooling, and while the CPU
> > appeared to still be fine to do other things, it did fail sporadically
> > but frequently while executing POV-Ray, littering the output with ramdom
> > white pixels. Replacing the CPU solved the issue. (*Until the same
> > person burned out the replacement CPU as well.)
> >
>
>    Yep... that was me. :) And yes, the CPUs where AMD Athlon X2 in both
> cases.
>
> --
> jaime

Thus:

"Heat sinks are crucially important for render performance, so keep up
the work! ;)"

http://news.povray.org/povray.binaries.images/message/%3C57a0eced%241%40news.povray.org%3E/#%3C57a0eced%241%40news.povr
ay.org%3E

:D

BTW, we have room for you up here in New Hampshire - the (not recent) weather
ought to be great for your CPU's.  :)

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