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Offline Hitmen

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Re: How Can I Cool My Computer?
« Reply #15 on: May 28, 2007, 09:38:12 pm »
Ehh, I had a laptop that got up to 189°F or something to that extent sitting on a cabinet colored brown. At least it claims to have gotten that hot. And that was the system telling me that when I ran FreeBSD on it.
That's probably a bad thing. Even if it doesn't break immediately, it's not going to take long before having a hardware failure.
Bah, that is nothing. Before I finally added some better cooling to my computer about six months ago, my processor idled at 80-85ºC and went up to 90-95ºC under load (occasionally tripping the bios auto-shutdown at whatever the default temp to shut off was). I built this computer in... 2001 or early 2002. My processor still works. Old AMD Athlon = spaceheater, but they can sure take the temperature load :)
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Re: How Can I Cool My Computer?
« Reply #16 on: May 28, 2007, 10:03:47 pm »
When you can start cooking food on a processor, there's a problem.

Although in this case, the oil-cooling idea might be a good one. Fill it with oil and cook french fries!