Just wondering if this laptop (HP dv6-6173cl) would get to hot running SETI. It does have a feature that will run the CPU Fan faster if needed , but I don't want to burn it up. On the other hand I would have three computers crunching ET numbers.

Just wondering if this laptop (HP dv6-6173cl) would get to hot running SETI. It does have a feature that will run the CPU Fan faster if needed , but I don't want to burn it up. On the other hand I would have three computers crunching ET numbers.

Nobody can answer that question but yourself.
Get some temperature monitoring software loaded and watch what happens.
Lappys are notorious for not having enough cooling engineered into them to run flat out. Which Seti can do.

Watch the temps, and if necessary, there are ways to limit the crunching you do on it to a level that will not burn it up.

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yes it will get hot - but you can help things by putting it on a cooling pad (outside fans) or at least raising it from the surface and by crunching temperature controlled with the help of TThrottle

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I'm not the Pope. I don't speak Ex Cathedra!

Thanks for the ifo and link. I already run one Laptop with a dual core processor,and it runs 24/7. It does get warm. Just wasn't sure how hot these i7's get. I've heard of them burning through the motherboards but they were probably over clocked anyway. I've looked into cooling pads with fans, but there's so many of them out there it's tough to choose one that will actually cool the laptop down.

Does anybody know what the core parameters should be? I just checked my old laptop and it's running between 57.8-60 Deg C. Thats like 133 Deg F.

Most laptop CPUs & GPUs are rated to 90°c or higher.

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Most laptop CPUs & GPUs are rated to 90°c or higher.

Okay thanks. Gets me in the ballpark.

Most laptop CPUs & GPUs are rated to 90°c or higher.

Thanks for reminding me.I hadn't blown out my i7 Q840 4 core for a while and checked the core temps. They were running 88-90 Celsius. ATI GPU was running 66 Celsius. Ambient temperature is 80 Fahrenheit in my house right now. So, thanks to this thread, I was reminded and blew out the dust. Cores are now at 80c GPU at 60c. I run it full out with 7 cores (hyperthreaded) for CPU and 1 to feed the GPU. I've done this for almost a year. It no longer becomes a "laptop". I gave myself a first degree burn using it on my lap while wearing shorts last year. That is not a joke. It sits well ventilated on a brick mantle.

Doug

Most laptop CPUs & GPUs are rated to 90°c or higher.

Thanks for reminding me.I hadn't blown out my i7 Q840 4 core for a while and checked the core temps. They were running 88-90 Celsius. ATI GPU was running 66 Celsius. Ambient temperature is 80 Fahrenheit in my house right now. So, thanks to this thread, I was reminded and blew out the dust. Cores are now at 80c GPU at 60c. I run it full out with 7 cores (hyperthreaded) for CPU and 1 to feed the GPU. I've done this for almost a year. It no longer becomes a "laptop". I gave myself a first degree burn using it on my lap while wearing shorts last year. That is not a joke. It sits well ventilated on a brick mantle.

Doug

Thats quite the temp drop. I hear about the laptop not being one anymore. The I have running Seti on now gets pretty darn warm. I wouldn't want it in my lap for syre. Its sits on the desk.

I'm still thinking a cooling pad with some decent fans would help prolong the life. I'm trying as you can see to keep these puppies crunching as long, and as hard as I can.

I have cats in the house. I have to give my four laptops & two boxes a good dusting out once a week. Once you have a base line for running temps you can watch it raise slowly as the dust builds up. I use 'HW Monitor Pro' and see all computer temps from one location.

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Not only laptops are exposed or prone to temperature overheating.

My Corsair PC which is having an Intel Core i7 960 processor had two emergency shutdowns earlier today. First time it happened, I was having my dinner here and no windows had been opened up until then.

Also when it happened, I was running one of PrimeGrid's Genefer tasks using the CUDA-option. I should have noticed this before it happened. Now the window is up and a floor-mounted fan providing both cold and hot air now is turned on and running at double effect for the cold air option. The CUDA-based tasks I do not run right now.

At second restart I used the temperature monitoring software in the BIOS setup and watched the temperature for the processor showing up in red. After a while the temperature dropped back to normal and I was again able to resume normal operation.

I guess it is still summertime.

Not only laptops are exposed or prone to temperature overheating.

My Corsair PC which is having an Intel Core i7 960 processor had two emergency shutdowns earlier today. First time it happened, I was having my dinner here and no windows had been opened up until then.

Also when it happened, I was running one of PrimeGrid's Genefer tasks using the CUDA-option. I should have noticed this before it happened. Now the window is up and a floor-mounted fan providing both cold and hot air now is turned on and running at double effect for the cold air option. The CUDA-based tasks I do not run right now.

At second restart I used the temperature monitoring software in the BIOS setup and watched the temperature for the processor showing up in red. After a while the temperature dropped back to normal and I was again able to resume normal operation.

I guess it is still summertime.

summer or winter the climate here on the coast doesn't change much. Currently 60 deg F here. Perfect for CPU'S :-)>

Not only laptops are exposed or prone to temperature overheating.

My Corsair PC which is having an Intel Core i7 960 processor had two emergency shutdowns earlier today. First time it happened, I was having my dinner here and no windows had been opened up until then.

Also when it happened, I was running one of PrimeGrid's Genefer tasks using the CUDA-option. I should have noticed this before it happened. Now the window is up and a floor-mounted fan providing both cold and hot air now is turned on and running at double effect for the cold air option. The CUDA-based tasks I do not run right now.

At second restart I used the temperature monitoring software in the BIOS setup and watched the temperature for the processor showing up in red. After a while the temperature dropped back to normal and I was again able to resume normal operation.

I guess it is still summertime.

summer or winter the climate here on the coast doesn't change much. Currently 60 deg F here. Perfect for CPU'S :-)>

I still use my HP laptop for crunching, it's running about 5 years in a row,
you've to make sure the intake fan isn't blocked by dust or the surface
it's on.
I even use (SSE3) optimized app. for MB work. It's also my main browser.
(WIN XP32 Home, CPU=T2400 Dual-Core, 2GByte DRAM, 2 80GByte HDDs (2,5")

Even in Holland it gets hot from time to time, yesterday 2 rigs shutted down
due to overheating. (Q6600 reached 110C (?) and GTX470 99C).
My AC is defect, but getting another one today.

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I still use my HP laptop for crunching, it's running about 5 years in a row,
you've to make sure the intake fan isn't blocked by dust or the surface
it's on.
I even use (SSE3) optimized app. for MB work. It's also my main browser.
(WIN XP32 Home, CPU=T2400 Dual-Core, 2GByte DRAM, 2 80GByte HDDs (2,5")

I'm also using my laptop for cruching with the opt. apps, no issues so far. Since I'm not running around with it, I remove the main cover from the case for the summer, that gives something like 7°C on CPU and also all other components are cooler. That way (together with some permanent modifications on the cooling and undervolting) the CPU stays somewhere between 50-60°C with the fan running at it's lowest setting. And if it gets over 30°C in here, I have a pretty much noiseless 80mm fan which blows some fresh air under it, that's a lot better (and cheaper) than those special cooling pads which can be quite noisy, all you have to do is to lift the laptop a little in the back.

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Hi.

I am running seti on my I7 HP Pavilion dv6-6b05tx Entertainment Notebook PC and have had no problems, HP tend to use software and hardware monitoring to throttle the I7 and/or the fans to stop them burning out.

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Hi.

I am running seti on my I7 HP Pavilion dv6-6b05tx Entertainment Notebook PC and have had no problems, HP tend to use software and hardware monitoring to throttle the I7 and/or the fans to stop them burning out.

Even your BIOS should downclock your processor temporarily in the event of temps getting too high.

I've got a P4 with crappy cooling that I cannot run Boinc at 100% on, because it just throttles itself too much.

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I've been running A laptop/notebook (Morena) wirelessly into my network for over a year now.

Its a Lenovo and contains a Pentium (R) Dual Core CPU.

Boinc runs fine with both cores and Throttle is showing the CPU cores at being about 47C.

Even during the UK's miniscule heatwave , it only reached 51C.

As with all my network, Boinc is set to run on my preferences, so if CPU my demands exceed a certain level, then BOIC is suspended, until demand levels are reduced.

Swordfish