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Junior Member
Dell laptop throttling down the CPU
I have a Dell laptop with a 466 Celeron in it, and I'm not getting all I can out of it for GIMPS. I have turned off the "smart CPU" option in the setup screen, but it is still throttling down, presumably due to heat issues. It was throttling down to 350, so I put an aluminum cookie sheet under it and elevated the whole mess about a half inch to get some air circulation. It now only throttles down to 407, but I'd still like to get more of what I paid for. Anybody have any experience in this area?
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It's all his Fault!
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The Cruncher From Hell
I melted my laptop, just shipped it back today for warranty service.
If they send it back and it fails again, I'll tell them to give me a desktop since the laptop can't do everything I need
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Junior Member
Although my dell lappy is only a p2 366, it does get uncomfrotable warm.
I have taken the following steps to help keep it cool. First I have proped up the rear on a architect's scale (the little triangular ruler jobbie that you can get at places like office depot) helps with airflow under the laptop. In addition I also blast out the heatsink, from intake to exhaust with compressed air monthly.
Out side of that, there isnt much that you can do to cool your laptop, unless you want to hack a new fan into it.
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Minister of Propaganda
I have an old laptop in the closet running Ubero 24/7. I took a C= 1541 Floppy drive and flippd it upside down. Then I put the laptop on that. Now I have a wide gap between the laptop and the floppy drive.
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Junior Member
Sigh, silly me, it's always the obvious stuff.
The laptop was overheating because the CPU fan had failed. Luckily it only thottled down instead of melting (gotta give props to Intel for that). I have an external fan set up to blow air into the external air port, and that is keeping it cool enough to run at full speed.
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Minister of Propaganda
Great! Another success story!
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