2008-02-21, 17:44:12
In case anyone ever encounters a similar problem: for some reason, the fan which is supposed to cool the CPU etc. stopped working for about a month, this led to a temperature increase, the CPU was at about 77° Celsius (according to Dell, around 50° would be normal). This led to a decreased performance, I gues Intel's speed stepping triggered, so the capability of the whole system wasn't enough to smoothly run Wc3 anymore. Now the fan's back to normal, no idea why that happened all over sudden, but as long as it works, I don't care ;-)