for sure heat plays a role in the stabiilty of this chip.. even at idle!
i closed the room (which is small) where the pc is for a while (1-2 hours). heat was on a lil and wasnt cold outside. i saw core spike up to high 40's/low 50's. was very humid in the room. it was frozen when i came back to it (was up for 7 days non stop doing work (cpu/memory stress) on and off.
as an aside, i rebuilt with win2k3 r2 sp2, 32bit. wow what a difference! feels much much better now (xp would get stuffed up and things would slow down), and i reclaim the extra gig of mem which was lost from xp (win server32 does 36bit addressing using pae to get beyond the useable limit).
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