F@H is a good way to quickly cook a laptop...

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Elledan

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Today I did the unimaginable and rebooted Windows on my laptop to fix some issues with the GPU in it. After this and installing a new NVidia driver to fix Optimus (switching between the 660M GPU and HD4000 IGP) I noticed that the fan in the lappy was still blazin'. Looking at Task Manager I noticed that the FAH client was running. SpeedFan told me that the CPU was cookin' at over 80C :eek:

And that's why one doesn't fold on a laptop :)

It reminds me that I really need to get a PC again so that I can do actual folding =/ Sorry for being out of the loop so long, guys :(
 
Elledan!!!!!!!

Yeah, laptops dont like high temps and burn your biscuits when you decide to lap it.
 
Redo the heatsink paste on the laptop CPU with some actual good stuff and you can drop 5-10c or more under full load vs the crappy gray crap that comes stock.
 
Until the PCB lights on fire, and you can like a smoke from it, its fiiiiine.
 
sc0tty8 said:
Until the PCB lights on fire, and you can like a smoke from it, its fiiiiine.
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Good reason to have a Gold service plan, and a better laptop that really is a mobile workstation with dual video cards.

( and a carbon fiber stick for the marshmallows to match. )
 
As long as it's under warranty, who cares? It's just doing what it's made for. Working until its fingers bleed.
 
[H]ecklerKoc[H];1040701854 said:
Good reason to have a Gold service plan, and a better laptop that really is a mobile workstation with dual video cards.

( and a carbon fiber stick for the marshmallows to match. )
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I know somebody who fell asleep next to his laptop. He woke up with a blister from the heat coming out of the laptop exhaust.
 
Laptop = take apart and apply real thermal paste , that helped me alot on a Dell i use to have

But in the end, most laptops cooling is pure crap,. why you always ready about over heating issues when you actually stress the laptop.
 
Yeah I need to redo my laptop's paste. Its running too hot
 
MrGuvernment said:
Laptop = take apart and apply real thermal paste , that helped me alot on a Dell i use to have

But in the end, most laptops cooling is pure crap,. why you always ready about over heating issues when you actually stress the laptop.
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Yeah, if given the choice I would have gone for a laptop with better cooling so that I can actually use the GPU in it without the single fan in it going nuts :)
 
Oh, I forgot....


80C is fine, bake it!
 
[H]ecklerKoc[H];1040701854 said:
Good reason to have a Gold service plan, and a better laptop that really is a mobile workstation with dual video cards.

( and a carbon fiber stick for the marshmallows to match. )
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I have a mobile workstation that overheats with just CPU folding, Lenovo W530.
 
80C is hot.. but don't some modern processors have a max temp of like 105 C? Perhaps 80 C is nothing to worry about. Which processor do you have in it?
 
Haha I had an old laptop that was a P4 that I folded on back in the day when we had those special P4 only bonus WU's. 3.06ghz of P4 power! That fan was a screamer, i couldn't hardly work with it next to me. This new laptop is 3 years old as well, and i think the only reason work hasn't replaced it is cause its still alive. If i could stand the sound of the fan, I'd probly be folding on it for about 1k PPD just to try to kill it off.
 
Elledan said:
Yeah, if given the choice I would have gone for a laptop with better cooling so that I can actually use the GPU in it without the single fan in it going nuts :)
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Why i am looking at some Sager models, they have dual fans in most, unlike say MSI who touts about a single fan turbo cooling system, and yet you then read and people complain about loud fans and heat.
 
aL Mac said:
80C is hot.. but don't some modern processors have a max temp of like 105 C? Perhaps 80 C is nothing to worry about. Which processor do you have in it?
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80C is worrying to me because it also affects the rest of the laptop since it's so tightly packed together :)

CPU in this laptop is a Core i7 3630QM @2.4 GHz. GPU is a 660M.

MrGuvernment said:
Why i am looking at some Sager models, they have dual fans in most, unlike say MSI who touts about a single fan turbo cooling system, and yet you then read and people complain about loud fans and heat.
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Yeah, based on my experiences with high-end (gaming) laptops, I would say that separate cooling paths for the CPU and GPU are pretty much required, or at least more cooling for the whole system than a single fan can provide.

I was looking at the dual-cooler Asus gaming laptop which came out a few months after I bought my current laptop and really wished I had gotten that one instead. Ah well.

I should have enough money to build a proper PC in ~2-3 months from now, I hope :)
 
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