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fohfoh:

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--- Quote from: fohfoh on June 16, 2011, 02:42:02 AM ---Everyone is speaking about the battery.

IF your laptop overheats, expect stuff to slow down on the software side. AKA: Lag
Expect at times your wifi may begin to cut in and out (though, I don't believe this was an issue in draft N)
If airflow is restricted, it may become slightly loud.

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Just set up temperature monitors so that you don't go above 95.  Mine runs a stable 82c while folding.

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82c is fucking burning hot

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Concur. When mine ranges in the 80-90C range... that's BAD.

50-60 is "average" per speedfan on this laptop. My dell, 40-50 is HOT.

mgz:
yea like 90s for your laptop would put ur cpu at like 100c which is IMO gonna be shortening the life of that thing quite a bit

bloody000:
a junction temperature 90C is fine. Intel measures Tj, AMD OTOH measures Tcase.

Mistgun_Zero:
Well I have been using my laptop as a desktop for two years straight and I leave it on for a week most of the time (mainly cause my download speed sucks and I have to keep it on for days to download animes).

My battery is removed and in this two years I have never faced any problems, no overheating, no lags or crashes due to overuse. But I make sure to keep it in balanced or power saver mode, doing so will switch off the screen when not in use (I have changed to 3 min, after which screen switches off) and also save power and load on the your laptop.

Just so you know mine's a bit old configured (was the best when I bought it though) so it's no doubt newer confg. laptops will be much more safer and reliable.

for your info my laptop runs on Core2 Duo 2.0 Ghz processor along with 4gb RAM. It's a LG R510 model (whilte laptop ~yay, looks in my laptop was the second priority after functionality ;D).

Note : Additionally if you want you can get the laptop cooler (or a pad whatever it's called) that way you don't even have to bother about overheating and all other crap even while heavy gaming, though I never used one cause I never required one.

Kyrdua:
Using a vintage laptop that was abused for 6 years
read: on 24/7 in airconditioned room (with occasional breaks) for the first 4 years
used in distro hopping for a few months 2 years ago.

yeah, i can pretty much say leaving your laptop on doesn't do much. Mine's low
spec but i don't notice any degredation of it's already weak performance. but yeah,
it's good to remove the battery but others already explained the pro's/con's on that.

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