Solutions for overheating with the new gnome ?

[Ernest Doub]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Pop Horea <pop.horea at yahoo.com> wrote:

> The fan is working but with gnome 3 and the new generation of processors
> from intel : i3 , it is quite difficult to maintain an acceptable
> temperature.  68 degrees it is to much I think. Manually can I set the fan
> under Linux Ubuntu ? Do I find fan replacements if it fails?
>
> On 10/31/2011 01:55 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>
>> On 31 October 2011 11:32, Pop Horea-Vasile<pop.horea@**lnxopensource.com<pop.horea at lnxopensource.com>>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> I didn't knowed those aspects.
>>> Then how we can improve the cooling system ?
>>> Can coolers with ventilators be improved ?
>>>
>> How do you know that overheating is a problem for you?  Are the fan(s)
>> running ok?
>>
>> Colin
>>
>>  On 10/31/2011 04:31 AM, Ernest Doub wrote:
>>>
>>> First, there is no way to get the necessary plumbing inside the case of
>>> any laptop currently available.
>>> Second, if you ~could~ engineer a way to get around problem number one
>>> you have the problem of powering the cooling system when your computer
>>> isn't plugged into a wall outlet for power.
>>> Water cooling systems use bulky [and noisy] hardware and take more power
>>> than any portable system can manage.  If you are capable of lugging around
>>> a large car battery in addition to the rest of the hardware required you
>>> could probably get about 2 hours of cooling.
>>> All in all, not very practical.
>>>
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>
The first thing you need to do is make sure that the existing cooling
system is working at maximum efficiency.
Start with a compressed air source, either canned air or a compressor with
an efficient water and oil trapping system [ getting oily residue in your
cooling system will only add to your problems] and blow out the fans and
all of the case ports until no dust comes out.
You will be amazed at the amount of dust you have collected if your laptop
is operating in a typical environment.  While you are at it you might as
well blow out the keyboard too.
After you have all the internals working at max the only way to improve the
hardware situation is to get more cool air into the case by using a laptop
cooling pad to move the heat away from the case and force extra cool air
into the intakes.
Also, you state that the temp. is 68 degrees.  Is that Fahrenheit or
Centigrade?
If you are still experiencing problems then you need to turn off extra
running processes that are causing extra processor cycles.  They all add up
to more heat so the less  load the less heat.

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