On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 11:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/11/08 10:47, p.daniels wrote: > [snip] > > > > Wow, that's an awful lot of money. Do some shopping on newegg.com, I > > got my Lenovo Y510 for under $700. 2 Gb RAM, dual core Intel, card > > That thing must be an oven! How often does the fan come on? > > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA Ron, I have always been a fan of dualcore athlon64s (ever since I saw a laptop in a store running one and I felt no heat on the bottom, and I set a win process running 100% cpu and there was still no response issues). However my Dell Vostro has dual core intel (Intel Core™ 2 Duo T5270) and while the bottom does get warm, it does not get hot. I have run monitoring tools on it to get the temp. To even get the other fan to (it has two) fire up, I had to compile two kernels at the same time. The exact number for the temp, I do not remember, but I was concerned since I never heard the fans run at all. Now I know why, in my normal use, I never need the 2nd fan to run, the primary fan normally runs on slow. If you are really interested, search this archive, or debian_amd64 (it might even had been Dells linux-users list, I don't remember) and the numbers are posted. It was about wither or not you needed to run a separate app to run the fans or not (no, despite ubuntu forums saying otherwise). In conclusion, dualcore athons run cooler, but at least on the Dell Vostro, the dual core intel 1.4G proc does not run hot. > > "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New > York is doomed." > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFIT/e9S9HxQb37XmcRAtYlAJ9i22if+grr8M1FLUqwI1QZAXNYGwCcDh/b > uz9gy80EFU1HiolXmwh4Tqc= > =A93o > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- Damon L. Chesser damon@damtek.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
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