Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:40:13 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> Cc: George Neville-Neil <gnn@neville-neil.com>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X60 overheating with 7.1 Message-ID: <20090114194013.8241F1CC0B@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:47:46 EST." <1231958866.1172.58.camel@RabbitsDen>
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> From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:47:46 -0500 > > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 10:10 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > Also, 75C is a VERY conservative setting for most modern CPUs. My old P4 > > system (T40) is speced to run at up to 90C and my newer Pentium-M based > > T43 is speced at 100C. _PSV is 94.5 and _CRT is 99.0 on that system. I > > suspect that yours would be fine with _PSV of 85C, but you can look up > > the spec at Intel's web site. > I think 85C was the default on my laptop. I have lowered it because such > a tight package gets uncomfortable on one's lap otherwise. If your employer has ergonomic reviews, I'm sure that they will point out that a laptop should never be used when sitting on ones lap! Our ergo people think it's great that some modern laptops get so hot so people are reminded not to do this. :-) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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