Anyone here run a DC project on a laptop?

[aphex]

I already have UD running on 2 rigs and was thinking that maybe i would put it on my new laptop as well...

Is there anything i should be aware of, or should all be good?

 

[Engineer]

I run SETI 24/7 on a couple of laptops, but they are and older Celeron 333 and PII 300. They do run hot, probably because they don't have much in the way of active cooling. I ran it for a short while on a PIII 800 with a little larger fan...ran hot, but OK. YMMV.

Give it a try.....notice how much heat is coming off.....is the laptop in an air conditioned office (mine isn't :Q)?

Does it have a warranty? :Q

Good Luck......

 

[RaySun2Be]

Make sure it has good cooling. I run SETI on my laptops at work, a Dell Lattitude 1Ghz PC, Dell Lattitude PIII750Mhz, and several IBM Thinkpad 390X, as well as having run it on a IBM T23 laptop. They do run a bit hot, but still well within specs, and all run it well.

I don't run it while on battery power, as it drains the battery quickly, but other than that, not a problem. If you have a tualitin core cpu (-M) lappie, those will run very fast times, and also don't run as hot as the others do either.

No experience with AMD powered laptops.

 

[Kantana]

I run ECCP on an Athlon 4 at 1ghz. I keep the laptop elevated so the air can move around. Really good production too!

 

[aphex]

Well i would be running it on a Dell Inspiron 8100 1ghz... It seems to have fairly adequate cooling, granted living in the humidity of south florida makes "good" cooling on any of my rigs just a dream

 

[Baldy18]

I've run SETI and Distributed Folding on my laptop and haven't had any problems. I do worry though about wearing the fan out since it is always running when I have a DC project running but I not real concerned about it.

 

[SoulAssassin]

Haven't had any problems on mine, but like Ray said...I wouldn't run it while on battery. I have setidriver running as a service and I just setup two batch files on the desktop to do a net stop/start.

 

[ys]

i run SETI 24/7 on a Dell PIII 650mhz laptop without any problem except the fan spins louder than my desktop's :Q

 

[RaySun2Be]

We've had problems with those Dell Lattitude CPxJ cooling fans. I've had to replace 4 of them, under warranty, as they were barely a year old.

NOTE: Only 1 of them (mine) was running a DC project. So that wasn't a major factor.

 

[DanC]

I ran RC5 non-stop on a CPQ Armada laptop for about a year and a half.

No problemo.

 

[Soulkeeper]

i run seti on my P4 1.8 laptop
no prob with cooling

 

[Robor]

I run SETI on several laptops at work. All are various flavors of Dell Latitudes. They do run warm but even without SETI running they run warm anyway. As far as the fans, I think that's a weakness with the Dells. In all I've probably got 40-50 Dell machines at work and between the power supply and CPU fans they're all louder than the HP Kayak boxes.

 

[Smoke]

I don't think the small cpu fans are as durable as the more heavy duty ones on desktop pcs. I had to replace the fan on my 800 MHz Sager a couple of months ago. It has been running non-stop SETI for over a year now.

 

[Mad Pierre]

I run seti on a thinkpad I1200 & Rc5 on a thinkpad 650E - both run HOT - but there can take it

 

[m2kewl]

I run the DC projects on the IBM Thinkpads at the office (with AC) and home (no AC), no problems with cooling.