300rman
12-01-2008, 02:15 PM
well, lately, my laptop has been more unstable under periods of high-cpu loading.
tried playing doom3 for the first time in about a year, and it would not get past the initial intro without freezing due to too much heat.
its not that the system needs un-dusted, system optomization and virus scanning, i have already tried that.
so began my search to make the computer run cooler, and my inital thought was a fanspeed manipulator, but none of those worked.
ran into underclocking and mainly Undervolting.
the system runs a max of x12 at 1.550 volts of all multipliers (runs cool n quiet, which only ramps up the multiplier as ore CPU is needed), and now i have it running at x11 at 1.350 volts ALL THE TIME instead of the performance as needed system it had been running.
after much trial and error to get something stable, i settled on these settings. the fans dont ever go past RPM level 2 (out of three) even under max system load. it runs about 15C cooler than before.
disadvantage is that with the processor ramped up all the time, battery life suffers, and when the computer is idle, the CPU runs a bit warmer.
now, why, after the laptop started aging (its at least 5 years old) did it start to run too hot at max cpu load and overheat?
tried playing doom3 for the first time in about a year, and it would not get past the initial intro without freezing due to too much heat.
its not that the system needs un-dusted, system optomization and virus scanning, i have already tried that.
so began my search to make the computer run cooler, and my inital thought was a fanspeed manipulator, but none of those worked.
ran into underclocking and mainly Undervolting.
the system runs a max of x12 at 1.550 volts of all multipliers (runs cool n quiet, which only ramps up the multiplier as ore CPU is needed), and now i have it running at x11 at 1.350 volts ALL THE TIME instead of the performance as needed system it had been running.
after much trial and error to get something stable, i settled on these settings. the fans dont ever go past RPM level 2 (out of three) even under max system load. it runs about 15C cooler than before.
disadvantage is that with the processor ramped up all the time, battery life suffers, and when the computer is idle, the CPU runs a bit warmer.
now, why, after the laptop started aging (its at least 5 years old) did it start to run too hot at max cpu load and overheat?