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Thread: What should I take care about when crunching on my laptop? |
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 Hey folks,I utilized 'Local Preferences' over 'Web Preferences' to alleviate heating problems. I chose 60% of CPU, and 30% of CPU time'. My laptop crunches in pulses now, and the temperature dropped markedly. I only did fine tuning in that section of the menu. When I was here 10 years ago, we could not adjust those spots without headaches. Either buy a small refrigerator for CPU cooling, or schedule by time of day, and days per week. My little laptop does fine on these settings now!  7cured |
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KLiK
Master Cruncher Croatia Joined: Nov 13, 2006 Post Count: 3108 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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75C seems rather hot to me, but that processor tjunc is rated at 100C according to Intel . It is listed as a 2C/4T processor, so if you wanted to run 24/7 and drop the heat a bit you could try running 50% processor usage or a program called tthrottle is rumored to work quite well. If you would like to run the device 24/7 at 100% then I would recommend a good laptop cooler. If the laptop is going to be stationary and used like a desktop, you could look at the bottom of the laptop and see if there are any access panels that can be removed. Some have panels to access the hard drive, RAM, or more. Removing these panels may add for more airflow from the laptop cooler fans. Well I use an old T60 for crunching also...it's an old laptop, which has been maxed out on all upgrades (put on orig. Docking station, best CPU, most RAM, HDD upgrade, USB used for Boost on Win7 Ultimate, etc.). It runs great on 3/4 of Tjunc, which is 75°C...& it has run like that for years! Same goes for my mother T61...though that one runs Windows 10 without any problems. My father on the other hand, runs Dells Latitude D630...which is run on 4/5 of Tjunc or 80°C...& that one also runs for years like that. How to monitor that? Use some tools, like FREEware program Tthrottle. With that, I just put in the max temp. & the Tthrottle regulates the amount of work to be done on the machine. That program has saved most of my CPUs & GPUs from overheating (yes, I also use GPUs on SETi@home). ---------------------------------------- [Edit 1 times, last edit by KLiK at Jan 19, 2019 11:07:52 AM] |
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