Ok,...

[TAandy]

As some of you might have guessed from my last post about the effing mouse
got a new lappy, not a ground-beater, core 2 duo T5500,
1 gig ram, blah, blah!! unless the blah's count???
believe it or not, i'm worried about wearing it out!!!
never worried me before, but, never had a lappy before! so?
is it safe?????????


Please release me, let me crunch!!

 

[Extelleron]

You aren't going to have a problem with wearing out computer components; the only thing you could possibly wear out is the hard drive, but that's only if you plan on leaving the system on 24/7 constantly. Obviously you don't want to run F@H (or whatever you plan on running) when you're using the battery, but otherwise you won't have a problem.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Only problem I've had with having my laptop crunching is finding somewhere to put it...

 

[Wolfsraider]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Only problem I've had with having my laptop crunching is finding somewhere to put it...

Oh thats easy put it in the vodkow's room

Woot, Nice lappy there mate@_@!!!

 

[Coquito]

Originally posted by: Wolfsraider

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Only problem I've had with having my laptop crunching is finding somewhere to put it...

Oh thats easy put it in the vodkow's room

Woot, Nice lappy there mate@_@!!!

All those potatoes... man that room stinks.

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Coquito

Originally posted by: Wolfsraider

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Only problem I've had with having my laptop crunching is finding somewhere to put it...

Oh thats easy put it in the vodkow's room

Woot, Nice lappy there mate@_@!!!

All those potatoes... man that room stinks.

Wasn't me!!!

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Only problem I've had with having my laptop crunching is finding somewhere to put it...

And, if you don't mind me asking, just where exactly did you find to put it???????

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: TAandy

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo
Only problem I've had with having my laptop crunching is finding somewhere to put it...

And, if you don't mind me asking, just where exactly did you find to put it???????

Well, when it was my only computer it was on my desk. When the computer was down, I just set it in front of my two LCDs. Now that my gaming machine is up and running, I'm at a loss of where to put it. I had it in the living room on the coffee table, but then I came in the next day and there was a pizza box on top of my laptop (and the worst part, it was closed, and thus--not crunching. :| ). So now it is sitting in the case, until I find somehwere to put it safe from pizza boxes and cats.

 

[Hurricane Andrew]

The biggest problem I've found with laptops and DC is heat. Those babies can get pretty hot. Not sure what the heat tolerances are for a laptop vs. a desktop, but the laptop that I was going to recuit to the "fold" was running 20-25 C hotter than my desktop, and that was enough to scare me.

I've never liked laptops anyway. Too bulky to carry around inconspicuously like a nice smartphone or PDA, and too expensive in a price vs. performance contest vs. a desktop. Well, that and I'm too cheap to actually buy one, since it's tough to find a free laptop housing that you can just load parts into and fire up like a nice ATX build.

In short, I'm just turning into a jealous, bitter old fart whose wife is already angry with him for buying a 27" HD LCD to replace an aging 19" junk TV in the bedroom.

Oh well, 12 hours ago I was 26th on the F@H TeAm, and due to a freak traffic jam, 12 hours from now I'll be all the way up to 23rd.

 

[BlackMountainCow]

I agree with Hurrican Andrew.

Been DCing on two laptops for a year now and temperature really is an issue. You have to make sure that you get some sort of temp sensor reader for the CPU at least (Mobile Meter or Hardware Sensors Monitor are two good ones, first one free). The other issue are the fans. If you let it crunch 24/7, these small fans will wear out faster than the bigger fans in PC cases.

As a result, I clean my laptops at least every 2 months, blow the with canned air, and on my HT machines, I only run one instance, and same on my Core Duo, also, only one instance. That keeps temps down to 50°C on the HT and to 60°C on the Core Duo.

 

[TAandy]

just out of curiosity, ran the performance information and tools thingy, it said this;

Manufacturer Acer
Model Aspire 5630
Total amount of system memory 1016.00 MB RAM
System type 32-bit operating system
Number of processor cores 2
64-bit capable Yes

64 bit capable????
is that using both cores or am i a complete numb-nut???

 

[Insidious]

duh............. you're a numnut Andy.

Ok, that aside, it means that you could put a 64 bit operating sysetm on it if you wanted to. It really doesn't have anything to do with multi-core.

I agree with HA about the heat issues crunching on a lappy. I didn't put anything on my son's Mac because of that.

-Sid

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: Insidious
duh............. you're a numnut Andy.

Ok, that aside, it means that you could put a 64 bit operating sysetm on it if you wanted to. It really doesn't have anything to do with multi-core.

I agree with HA about the heat issues crunching on a lappy. I didn't put anything on my son's Mac because of that.

-Sid

Cheers Sid, knew I could rely on you
roflmfao

 

[petrusbroder]

I am running my MacBook (dual core).
It shuts itself down in about 10 minutes if I run BOINC at 100%.
Overheating. If I run it at 70% it works OK 24/7.

 

[TAandy]

Originally posted by: petrusbroder
I am running my MacBook (dual core).
It shuts itself down in about 10 minutes if I run BOINC at 100%.
Overheating. If I run it at 70% it works OK 24/7.

I've tried running BOINC on it, seems to run ok???
But, as you say, I have the prefs set to use at most 70% of the cpu

 

[deerslayer]

I just removed BOINC from my work lappy Didn't want to end up killing it, the fan was starting to sound pretty bad.

 

[Ken g6]

Be sure to give it plenty of air. I now have my Celeron-M sitting diagonally over another machine, so that its air intake vent is hanging over the side. At some point in the past, I must not have given it enough air (on a desk or something), because the plastic around the exhaust vent droops down to where the desk level would be. :Q Fortunately, both the processor and the fan still work (unless I sit the laptop vertically, vent in the air, like I used to do sometimes.)