Anyone crunch with...

[freeloader]

Does anyone use a laptop to crunch units for a few days at a time? If so, are you worried about heat/hardware damage in the laptop?

[SparkyJJO]

you can set it to use not the full CPU load to keep temps down. Invest in a laptop cooler pad.

[ShootStraight]

Ive had a macbook crunching 24/7 for the last 2 years with no real problem. I did go out and get a pkg of rectangular erasers to put it up on when it sits on a table, though its more for the tables benefit than the laptop.

-SS

[STEvil]

My Uniwill P72 chassis Alienware M5750 ran hotter than acceptable with the stock heatsink.

After mods it never goes above 60c... except a couple of days ago when it went to 124c+ for some reason and the fan shut off. I guess it cant read temperatues in excess of 124c... but it kept going.


Just use coretemp to monitor temps for the first while. If it stays at or under 60-65c there's no reason to worry further.

[Blauhung]

I have an Asus G1s that I've been running 24/7. I normally leave it in the "quiet office" mode, which drops the multi down. works very nicely

[freeloader]

OK, so I'll give it a bit of height or perhaps even a laptop cooler and monitor temperatures to see how it goes. Thanks for the suggestions! :D

[Martijn]

If you have a recent Dell, I wouldn't worry too much... I have a Sonoma 750 undervolted to 1.05v at load, and it doesn't go much higher than 45C load, 25C idle...

The T5500 also used to get no hotter than 55C with only 1.0v. The lappies are pretty silent, too.

I don't run on battery power, though.

[MikeB12]

I'm using one of these on a p4 crunch's 24/7... temps stay at 60c constantly.
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2119012&CatId=607
http://images.tigerdirect.com/skuimages/large/T22-2109-main.jpg

[[XC] Jaco]

my laptop (which i got for my job) is crunching all the time. even when i'm working :D
But it's only a 1600Mhz Dothan cpu - runs pretty cool . only 27w TDP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_M#Dothan)

[alucasa]

I've got Dell 1330m. I crunches sometimes when it is available when I am home.
As long as you don't dare to OC it, you generally won't need an aftermarket cooler.

[littleowl]

I have an HP laptop crunching 100% 24/7! at least once a month I take it down for a full day and sit at idle. I also check the fans and IHS every week or 2. :D

[WrigleyVillain]

Yeah my Core Duo MacBook Pro at work got too hot and it's my main work machine anyway so I play it safe. I do crunch 24/7 at 100% with an old P3 700 laptop and yeah it gets really hot but have no other use for the thing. Right now it's set up back in the frigid laundry area which helps a lot :)

[[XC] gomeler]

I only crunch certain projects on my T2500 Macbook. Basically I test the project on my desktop and see how hard it strains the core, if it doesn't strain my desktop then I'll run it on the lappy. Example right now is the difference between Tanpaku and PSP:Sieve. PSP runs my desktop at 72C meanwhile Tanpaku runs my desktop at 61C-62C, nearly a 10C delta even though the cores are at "100% load" Certain projects just load up the processor circuits more than others, I think the SSE2 optimizations in the sieving projects really load up the circuits compared to the non-optimized projects.

[freeloader]

One more question...should I use a 64 bit version of Windows XP/Vista as it's my wife's machine and she's strictly a Windows user? Is 64 bit on a Turion faster than 32 bit? Thanks for the help guys.

[STEvil]

64bit is faster on anything that can use it.