Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 13:47:29 +0700 From: Erich Dollansky <erich@alogreentechnologies.com> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> Subject: Re: 9.1 and intel graphics Message-ID: <20121020134729.0282689a@X220.ovitrap.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tV1Q7JcO8BRy5UkUqPB6-FrKkAbw7BH29e=qa_djFRbg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20121020041408.GA1218@mycenae.sbb.rs> <CAN6yY1tV1Q7JcO8BRy5UkUqPB6-FrKkAbw7BH29e=qa_djFRbg@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 23:29:28 -0700 Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 9:14 PM, Zoran Kolic <zkolic@sbb.rs> wrote: > > I always remind folks to blow out the heat sink on laptops about one a > year. Dust is a great insulator and laptops often collect a lot more I never did this on a laptop as all of mine where build in a way that dust could not collect. So, it depends very much on the model. > dust than office systems, though my office system started dying during > buildworld last week and blowing out the CPU heat sink fixed it up, > but it had been sitting around for almost three years collecting dust. I do this every year on my desktop. The temperature drops then by 10K. You can use the CPU temperature as an indicator when a cleaning is needed. But blowing does not work on my machine. I really have to take screw driver and tweezers to get the work finally done. Erich
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