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Date: 12 Dec 2006 16:35:20
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Subject: Does Wilson Holdem run PC hot?
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The Wilson Turbo Texas Holdem demo program runs the PC hot. Apparently
the demo consumes 100% CPU, which causes the Pentium CPU to run hot.
The fan is running all the time, but my laptop battery is very hot.
(It is __not__ one of the defective battery models.)
Is that also true of the real Wilson Turbo Texas Holdem program?
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Date: 12 Dec 2006 20:24:30
From: johnny T
Subject: Re: Does Wilson Holdem run PC hot?
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nomail1983@hotmail.com wrote:
> The Wilson Turbo Texas Holdem demo program runs the PC hot. Apparently
> the demo consumes 100% CPU, which causes the Pentium CPU to run hot.
> The fan is running all the time, but my laptop battery is very hot.
> (It is __not__ one of the defective battery models.)
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> Is that also true of the real Wilson Turbo Texas Holdem program?
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Of course it runs hot. It is running as many simulations as possible.
It will run hot. If you are worried how hot it is, dial down how much
CPU time the thread is allowed.
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Date: 12 Dec 2006 20:08:02
From: ericpeter@ricochet.com
Subject: Re: Does Wilson Holdem run PC hot?
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no it runs ok. i elivate my laptop so that the fan is higher off the
ground. i use a spiral notebook to give the fan extra room to breathe.
i kept my dell from shutting down.
nomail1983@hotmail.com wrote:
> The Wilson Turbo Texas Holdem demo program runs the PC hot. Apparently
> the demo consumes 100% CPU, which causes the Pentium CPU to run hot.
> The fan is running all the time, but my laptop battery is very hot.
> (It is __not__ one of the defective battery models.)
>
> Is that also true of the real Wilson Turbo Texas Holdem program?
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Date: 12 Dec 2006 19:46:28
From: storman99
Subject: Re: Does Wilson Holdem run PC hot?
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can wilson tell you how often a floped nut str8 will lose
nomail1983@hotmail.com wrote:
> The Wilson Turbo Texas Holdem demo program runs the PC hot. Apparently
> the demo consumes 100% CPU, which causes the Pentium CPU to run hot.
> The fan is running all the time, but my laptop battery is very hot.
> (It is __not__ one of the defective battery models.)
>
> Is that also true of the real Wilson Turbo Texas Holdem program?
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Date: 13 Dec 2006 00:32:05
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Subject: Re: Does Wilson Holdem run PC hot?
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johnny T wrote:
> nomail1983@hotmail.com wrote:
> > The Wilson Turbo Texas Holdem demo program runs the PC hot.
> > [....]
> > Is that also true of the real Wilson Turbo Texas Holdem program?
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> Of course it runs hot. It is running as many simulations as possible.
That might be true of the real product, but I do not believe it is true
of the demo. The demo seems to have hardcoded the hands dealt. And I
should have mentioned that the 100% CPU utilization occurs even while I
am looking at the Odds page. I do not believe it is doing any
computation then, at least not after it displays the odds. Moreover, I
suspect the demo program hardcodes all of that data as well, since it
already knows what the hands are.
I suspect the 100% CPU utilization is due to the way that the program
is waiting for input. I am not a Windows programmer, but in "the old
days", it was not uncommon to write simple (DOS) programs that looped
endlessly checking input devices round-robin, rather than being
interrupt-driven.
> If you are worried how hot it is, dial down how much
> CPU time the thread is allowed.
Great thought! Thanks. Can you tell me how to do that? I will
search the web and Microsoft help tools for any insight. But if it is
not too difficult, I hope you can explain.
And please clarify: are you talking about merely lowering the process
priority; or can we actually specify a %CPU per unit time that a
process is permitted to use, even there is nothing else (but the idle
loop) to consume CPU time?
Forgive me for straying off topic for this newsgroup, but you have
piqued my curiosity.
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Date: 13 Dec 2006 00:22:15
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Subject: Re: Does Wilson Holdem run PC hot?
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ericpeter@ricochet.com wrote:
> no it runs ok.
Thanks.
> i elivate my laptop so that the fan is higher off the
> ground. i use a spiral notebook to give the fan extra room to breathe.
Good tip! Thanks again.
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