> Most of laptops I've seen have fixed speed fans, that are turned on when > heat exceeds some predefined limit, and for some reasons on some laptops > fan just runs "for sure" once a while. > > Mine laptop is set as high as 70 celcius CPU temp, so well, it get's > hot, specially from under (Yes, you can burn your balls if your not > careful =) > > Force lower clockspeed. Can be done on Intel speedstep, or AMD's > equivalent thingy. Of course, things takes twice as longer, but hey, no > more heat. > > Laptops are designed to run on higher heats, so no concern of frying. I can confirm Jani's words - my 3 years old Lifebook calculates SETI work units all the time, so the fan never gets stopped :-) BTW: I use cygwin to proccess a 100 work units queue without any additional software like SetiQueue or similar one.
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