Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 09:44:13 -0400 From: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> To: Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: laptop very hot and noisy Message-ID: <CAHieY7QtmWJzvrSDimQvAAbOzajR0MmMt4AoO%2B0CvwH=EWc_RQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120501124110.GB5007@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> References: <20120501120654.GA4883@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> <CAHieY7QW=3AJg4pO3reV76eC8URMQU0uoFQrv1BJdDskrX7gCw@mail.gmail.com> <20120501124110.GB5007@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk>
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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: > On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 08:25:11AM -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@bristol.ac.uk> wrote: >> > I run 10-current on Compaq 6715s. >> > It's very hot and noisy. If I boot [..] > I didn't even know they put fluid heatsinks in laptop. > I thought this was something from IBM cutting edge power6 > chips. > Yeah I didn't know either until it fried my CPU. Many laptop heatsinks use "heat pipes": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe The hole will probably be too little to notice but in my case I noticed some oxidation/stain around the hole which gave it away. -- Alejandro > So I might need to pull the laptop apart.. > I'm just not sure I could put it back > together... > > Thanks anyway > > -- > Anton Shterenlikht > Room 2.6, Queen's Building > Mech Eng Dept > Bristol University > University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK > Tel: +44 (0)117 331 5944 > Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423
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