Who's running dnet on a laptop? Definitely stresses it out.

[Eug]

Hmmm... How many of you are running OGR or RC5 or Yeti or whatever?

I am running it OGR on my laptop (PIII 600) such that when in battery mode the client will automatically pause.

But the "stress" OGR puts on the laptop is pretty impressive:

Turn on OGR and within 15 seconds my fan turns on.
Turn off OGR and within 5 seconds my fan turns off.

Can't say I'm inclined to keep the client active.


Interestingly my desktop Celeron at 110 FSB is 7.9 Knodes/s/MHz which is slightly faster than this laptop PIII at 100 FSB, which is 7.85 Knodes/s/MHz.

 

[Michael]

I run SETI just about 24/7 on my laptop. The fan does seem to come on right away, but it seems to keep it from overheating and I haven't seen any problems with it.

Michael

 

[DanC]

Armada laptop 24/7 - never even a hiccup.

 

[NT4Mike]

OGR on a stinkpad and it seems to do fine. My laptops have always been hot anyway so as long as they don't die, I keep on cracking.

-Mike

 

[Choralone]

Toshiba Portege 7200 running OGR 24/7, had hiccuped a couple of times, but that's probably due to me having 98 on it. Doesn't get more than slightly warm to the touch on the keyboard.

 

[RaySun2Be]

I've got it running on several Gateway P233 & p266 laptops 24x7, they are pretty warm but they are pretty warm even without it, no problems, and has been running for at least 4 months now.

I also have it on 14 Dell P3 750 laptops, the fan does come on, but that's what the fan is supposed to do, keep the laptop from overheating. OR PC, or CPU, etc.. If I were running heavy duty games or apps on the laptop, I would expect the fan to come on too. As long as they didn't under-engineer the cooling for the laptop there should be no problems.

I haven't found any problems from running the client on a laptop, nor have I had any burn up from running the client 24x7, try as I might.

 

[JonB]

Anybody have experience with Dell's (and others) new Heat Pipe cooling system in their highly rated Inspirons??? I had wondered how a heat pipe would work on a normal PC because you might be able to reduce fan noise.

 

[DanStp]

I run SETI on a laptop 24/7. Hey that fan was put in there to RUN right?

 

[Dantoo]

Yep running RC5 on a couple of laptops - no problem.

The fan is designed to power down to save battery charge and increase run time. Don't forget that the "clever" new cpu's even drop their operating speed by up to half to reduce power usage when on battery. Make sure that you have it on mains power and if you want to help dissipate heat, then put something just underneath the front of it. If you elevate it this way, it'll usually run much cooler.

 

[LANMAN]

Gateway Solo 9300 - PIII 700 warm to the touch, but no problems.

--LANMAN

 

[Eug]

OK guys. The first OGR stub has flushed.




<< Anybody have experience with Dell's (and others) new Heat Pipe cooling system in their highly rated Inspirons??? >>

Which model? I have the same machine as their Inspiron 5000e (Sceptre/Compal), but I dunno what the cooling system is. Seems to work fine, but this thing has been kicked out of 3DMark2000 a couple of times.

 

[Blayze]

I have a compaq K6-2 350 laptop here and I dont run RC5 on it.
Its already running pretty hot as is.

 

[SyZ]

I've been running it to 2 VAIO PIII 650's, one on a dock station with a fan and one standalone, both 9 months with no problems whatsoever.

SyZ

 

[HomerSapien]

I ran seti and rc5 on a dell inspiron 3700 (P3-700). Dont know if it has the new technology, but when running seti, it was hot enough to burn my hand. Rc5- was better, but still hot

 

[RC5Bri]

I have RC5 running on a P133 IBM w/ Win95 running 24x7. I leave it in the basement on a metal storage rack to help cool the bottom of the laptop. It is impressively stable, it has run 140 days without being rebooted. But that is only because nobody uses it.

 

[Poof]

I have a Compaq Presario 1267 that's been crunching seti 24/7 for 14 months straight and is now folding 24/7 too... I always thought the fan was supposed to stay on all the time! I do have to keep it propped up off the table though to keep the air flowing under it... Fortunately it's a K6-2 and those tend to run much cooler than the equivalent intels in a notebook...

Plus I have an old P120 Thinkpad 365XD that's been crunching 24/7 for 8 months and is now folding, with an uptime of 158 days as of this moment.

 

[Athlex]

I've got a Thinkpad T20 (PIII 700) that runs perfectly. The only time I interrupt it is when I'm moving the computer between work and home. hmm...maybe I should disable battery checking so it can crack in the car...

 

[GreatWhiteNorth]

Running an older Dell notebook. Not with me and I forget which model. Yeah, the fan kicks on immediately. The fan keeps the case at a warm temp. It has never gotten hot and has been running for almost two years now!

-GWN

 

[imported_Thunder]

I've been running the D.Net client on a Winbook PII-233 for almost 2 years now. The fan comes on when the room temp is over ~78F (rarely) and it doesn't seem to run for long. Oddly enough, it will run RC5 just fine, but when switching over to OGR the fan comes on quite a bit more and the machine locks up at least twice a day (regardless of whether it's being used actively). So it's one of my few machines that still does RC5 24/7.

-Brian

 

[Viztech]

JonB-

Dell is using heat pipes now? Dang, I've been thinking about that idea for quite awhile, thought that I could make my first million that way.

Got any links about it?

As far as Dnet on a laptop, I had a Dell P3-500 running NT4 that never missed a lick doing OGR as often as possible. The fan ran almost constantly though. I disabled dnet while on battery though.

viz

 

[RaySun2Be]

The Dell P3 750 laptops we have are using some kind of heat pipe along with a fan for cooling.

Aha, I found some info at the Dell site. We don't have the docking station, just a port replicator. But the laptops are definitely using the heat pipe.

Dell Heat Pipe

 

[Viztech]

Thanx Ray

/me would sure like to see one of those in person!

I would think that the design they are showing would not work if the machine were tilted to the back and/or right side to very much of a degree.

The idea that I had would lend itself well to an Athlon/Duron OEM situation, since I would incorporate the radiator inside a duct from the bottom of the power supply, similar to what I have seen done with early P2s. The AMDs have a pretty hefty DeltaT, so it would be the best to try it with.

If I was still in the HVAC biz I could put one together in a couple hours. The only chore would be in how to clamp it to the CPU. Probably would need a stiff copper base plate with a stamped spring stainless steel clamp.

Hmmmm first million...

viz