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Gizzmo0411
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December 9th, 2004 23:00
How hot is too hot?
I've been playing some games on my 9200, Half Life 2 and Prince of Persia Warrior within, and I noticed it gets pretty warm underneath. I was just wonder how hot was too hot for a laptop? I have no idea how to tell if I shouldn't be playing games because it will damage my computer. Anyone know if I should continue or not?
Most of the time it's just mildly warm to the touch, when I play games it gets hot, not hot enough to hurt when I touch it, but I can't tell when it's getting too hot. Anyone know?
Message Edited by Gizzmo0411 on 12-09-2004 07:10 PM
- Welcome to the group of steam-iron laptops...........errr..........notebooks! (Somebody dictated that we can't call these laptops anymore. Well......since we all know that's basically horse pucky, I refuse to comply. Let's call a spade, a spade...... They're LAPTOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!That said, if you search you'll find plenty of ways to *bandaid* this problem like laptop coolers, tv tray, book, magazine, whatever.....underneath, but basically these puppies get hot & there's not much we can do about it.If it helps to know this, there have been hot laptops for years, it's just too bad they (the ODM's) can't get this under control. If you shop around there are cool laptops out there, but that just eliminates other good laptops from your short list.P.S. As an after thought, I'd also like to console you a bit. I forgot the 9200 is now a Centrino laptop meaning it uses a Pentium M. You're conditioned (by Intel, Dell, whoever) that the Centrinos are cooler, but in fact the positive side-effects of Centrino technology are only in power-saving. What's reeeeeally funny is that they lead you to believe this is new. In fact, the Pentium 3 speedstep chips were almost EXACTLY what Pentium M technology was 3 years ago. In fact, it's just simply evolved with more complicated instruction sets and slightly higher clock speeds channeled into broader pipelines (L2 cache), but the basic idea of a P3 stepped unit is what the P-M is all about. And while the cpu's *can* run cooler than a P4 desktop chip, it should really be compared more to a P3 ***AND*** we, in fact, do NOT get a cooler laptop overall. Ain't technology great?? :smileysad:
MattFrancis
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Posted December 10th, 2004 14:00
If your concerned about heat, take a look at FANGUI, a program to monitor your systems internal temp and it displays it to the GUI, it should work fine as long as your motherboard and its drivers are properly connected and the drivers are correct.Gizzmo0411
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Posted December 12th, 2004 14:00
I bought a laptop cooling pad, which I was a little skeptical about, but it actually works pretty well. I do have a 7200 rpm hard drive so I'm sure that's a large part of it. It doesn't get hot enough to burn or anything like that, it's just really warm. I don't think it's hot enough to do damage. I did look at fanGUI and I couldn't figure out the first thing about getting it to work. I don't have a clue, if someone could help out with that I'd be greatfull. Thanks for the info agian...Actually, the laptop getting hot can cause damage... lots of damage. There's a 500+ post thread about heat related problems with the 5150. I had to send mine away to a third party to repair it. They repaired five separate places on the motherboard that were damaged due to excessive heat. Check it out (might be worth your while if you're willing to wade through all the 500 odd posts).
http://forums.us.dell.com/supportforums/board/message?board.id=insp_general&message.id=166703
Visit our 5150 forum at ez-board.com
http://p068.ezboard.com/bi5150users <-contains useful information
Dell Inspiron 5150 Users Website
http://www.geocities.com/i5150users/
snapohead
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Posted December 10th, 2004 01:00