So I was testing a new CPU cooling set up in my HTPC last night and wanted to torture test the CPU and see what kind of temperatures I'd get. So I started up Prime95, and, as expected CPU utilization immediately jumps to 100% on all cores and stays pinned between 99% and 100%. I let it run for about fifteen minutes before I noticed something funny: I'd left music playing in JRiver without thinking of it and it had been playing flawlessly all that time despite pinned out CPU usage. With convolution engaged no less!
What snapped me back into focus was a single soft drop out in the music after fifteen minutes or so (by which time my poor CPU was at 70 degrees Celsius, and I broke off testing to improve the cooler setup). Which is pretty darned impressive as far as I'm concerned.
I just wanted to congratulate the team at JRiver for making software with a small enough CPU footprint that it can run happily alongside Prime95 until the CPU is hot enough to cook an egg on! That has not been my experience with other media players I have used.
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