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CPU A little Hot? Fan Turns on a little too soon?

post #1 of 10
4/20/05 at 3:41pm
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post #2 of 10
4/20/05 at 4:02pm
Is it worth screwing with the warranty to open it up...
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post #3 of 10
4/20/05 at 4:09pm
Not if you keep your LT stock and/or your not running too hot.
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post #4 of 10
4/20/05 at 5:50pm
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Originally Posted by WorldIRC
Is it worth screwing with the warranty to open it up...
No undervolting is much better because you have the same prefromance and greater temp changes! Like sometimes 20C of a difference Also the fans are hardly on when you undervolt! IF your out of warranty then try it but if you are in warranty just undervolt more effective and give u better battery life!
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post #5 of 10
4/20/05 at 6:33pm
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Originally Posted by Laptop&lt View Post
No undervolting is much better because you have the same prefromance and greater temp changes! Like sometimes 20C of a difference Also the fans are hardly on when you undervolt! IF your out of warranty then try it but if you are in warranty just undervolt more effective and give u better battery life!
I've heard lots of intances where that program that undervolts crashes the comp... that's the only thing that has stopped me from trying the undervolt
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post #6 of 10
4/20/05 at 6:44pm
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Originally Posted by AuroraS
I've heard lots of intances where that program that undervolts crashes the comp... that's the only thing that has stopped me from trying the undervolt
Nope it does not crash yur computer at all! If you do it too far yes it will but if you carefully follow the dothan tutoral you will be 100 percent fine. but you have ot have at least 3 hrs free on your time!
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post #7 of 10
4/20/05 at 6:46pm
I'm not a big fan of Prime95...takes too much time
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post #8 of 10
4/20/05 at 7:38pm
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Originally Posted by AuroraS
I'm not a big fan of Prime95...takes too much time
LoL! Using this http://users.bigpond.net.au/cpuburn/ to do stress test heheh

at 100% CPU utilization, average around 60c @ 1.132v in max clock.
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post #9 of 10
4/21/05 at 10:45pm
Don't mean to step on toes here but another easy thing to do which I have greatly benefited from is removing the battery. Especially if you run on A/C most of the time. Your laptop will run much cooler and your battery will be less stressed (again if you are plugged in more often than not). I took my battery out and played WoW for about 1.5 hours (as stated in another post) and my fans never kicked into high gear like they usually do after only a few minutes in game. Kept the system much cooler and quieter.
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post #10 of 10
4/21/05 at 11:08pm
I'm definetely sticking to undervolting. It just isn't worth giving up that 3 year complete care from dell to do it. If it was out of warranty I'd certaily give it thought as I used it on my desktop computers. But so far undervolting has done fairly darn well for itself.

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