X60 overheating with 7.1

[Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko]

On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 11:40 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k at gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:47:46 -0500
> > 
> > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 10:10 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > 
> > > Also, 75C is a VERY conservative setting for most modern CPUs. My old P4
> > > system (T40) is speced to run at up to 90C and my newer Pentium-M based
> > > T43 is speced at 100C. _PSV is 94.5 and _CRT is 99.0 on that system. I
> > > suspect that yours would be fine with _PSV of 85C, but you can look up
> > > the spec at Intel's web site.
> > I think 85C was the default on my laptop. I have lowered it because such
> > a tight package gets uncomfortable on one's lap otherwise.
> 
> If your employer has ergonomic reviews, I'm sure that they will point
> out that a laptop should never be used when sitting on ones lap! Our ergo
> people think it's great that some modern laptops get so hot so people
> are reminded not to do this. :-)
This is the personal piece of hardware. I wish my employer would let me
run FreeBSD on my laptop...

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Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)