Veraster
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I have an Alienware M14X laptop. This is not the same computer as the one in my profile info. It has an Ivy Bridge i7-3610QM. Normally, it never sees cpu temperatures higher than 82C or so on the hottest core during intensive gaming because anything I've thrown at it before never pushed the cpu to constant 100% utilization.
The other day, I installed F@H on it. The cpu temps on the hottest core reach a high of 93C and and hover around 89-91 once F@H has been running for a while. The other three cores are always ~5 to ~13 degrees C cooler than core #3.
I'm used to looking at cpu temperatures that never go higher than 51C after being under maximum load for several hours on my E5300 Pentium D computer. Even with more fans than I need in my desktop, it also isn't near as loud close up as my M14X is from a distance.
So is 93C too hot? Plastic cups and stuff like that melt in boiling water and silicon is a type of plastic. 93C is almost the boiling point of water, so is that dangerously hot or is it just at the borderline of too hot? Will running my cpu in the low 90s and upper 80s shorten it's life?
Note that I have a custom made cooling pad for this laptop. The fans blow in the direction the laptop's internal fans blow in. The cooler's fans aren't fighting the laptop's fans and killing the airflow. I don't even want to know what the temps would be without the cooler...
Also, would I see a notable temperature difference if I plugged my cooler into a 12 volt switching adapter instead of a 5 volt one? It's not a question of if it will work or explode. It's just pc fans plugged strait into a power source and I know it will work on voltages as high as 20 volts.
The other day, I installed F@H on it. The cpu temps on the hottest core reach a high of 93C and and hover around 89-91 once F@H has been running for a while. The other three cores are always ~5 to ~13 degrees C cooler than core #3.
I'm used to looking at cpu temperatures that never go higher than 51C after being under maximum load for several hours on my E5300 Pentium D computer. Even with more fans than I need in my desktop, it also isn't near as loud close up as my M14X is from a distance.
So is 93C too hot? Plastic cups and stuff like that melt in boiling water and silicon is a type of plastic. 93C is almost the boiling point of water, so is that dangerously hot or is it just at the borderline of too hot? Will running my cpu in the low 90s and upper 80s shorten it's life?
Note that I have a custom made cooling pad for this laptop. The fans blow in the direction the laptop's internal fans blow in. The cooler's fans aren't fighting the laptop's fans and killing the airflow. I don't even want to know what the temps would be without the cooler...
Also, would I see a notable temperature difference if I plugged my cooler into a 12 volt switching adapter instead of a 5 volt one? It's not a question of if it will work or explode. It's just pc fans plugged strait into a power source and I know it will work on voltages as high as 20 volts.
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