[GTALUG] Fedora 22 Live Workstation Install - no fglrx - no pdftk

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 01:01:22PM -0400, Russell Reiter wrote:
> I agree with this but I did once cool a laptop with a bag of frozen
> peas, at least until I got power management sorted out, so I'm kind of
> willing to try just about anything.

Many laptops have lacking cooling and when they get a lot of dust in
them start to have problems.  So you clean the dust out of the fans and
heatsinks once in a while and they run much better again.  On some models
this is easy (Pretty much anything that says thinkpad on it), and on
others it is a complete nightmare (Compat R3240 for example)

> I just posted a bit of an update and question on where to sourcing
> cooling stuff. I use to overclock quite a bit, mostly before the
> jumper free days, so to find that the bios defaults to auto in
> overclocking, makes me wonder about the effectiveness of the default
> settings.
> 
> I was literally blowing cold air from my AC right into it at one
> point, but after the firmware update and graphics tweaks, I put the
> unit back in place and so far so good.
> 
> The little copper headers on the heat sinc kill me, I can't believe
> they transfer heat better that just blowing air across the fins.

I am not a cooling design engineer. :)

I hope whoever designs the cooling system is.

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Len Sorensen