Nick M V Salmon wrote:

P4 can 'throttle' itself when it gets too hot, ie. slow itself down.
This last month in Europe has been HOT - has your P4-M been running
hot & self throttling..?

Damn. That could be it. It would explain inconsistent processing times at
constant CPU usage. Actually I live in Thailand (yes, a pretty hot country)
but my computer survived the hot season without any problems.

But checking with AIDA I just realised that my CPU temp is definitely higher
than it used to be a few months ago. But everytime I check the CPU clock
it's at 2000 MHz.

Does any of you know a tool which can log CPU temp and clock to a file? This
would help me check on this.

Thanks.

Carsten