I have a laptop that is quite poor in terms of cooling. Basically since I first got it has always run hot, or at least hotter than it should. When under standard use it runs in the 60-70 C range, which is okay, but I use it to crunch boinc projects, which to prevent over heating and automatic shut off I need to change the settings so that Boinc uses about 30% of CPU time, and doesn't run when CPU usage is over 15%. Even then my system runs far to hot for comfort, often between 80-88 C.
I do have a lap rest ( though it does not have a built in cooling fan), in which I have rigged up a way to raise the bottom of my pc further off the rest, with the laptop tilted to help air flow back and out through the cooling vents. My Hard Drive died a few weeks ago, so I did replace that and while in the depths of my computer I inspected the heat sink and cooling fan, I cleaned away most of the dust, but the issues still persist.
I am not sure what else I can try besides just trying to get a lap rest with some built in cooling fans, as I feel there is quite limited airflow underneath and around the computer even with my rigged lift. Do you have any suggestions?
I guess I should say it is a Dell Inspiron N5010 running Ubuntu 12.04 with an Intel i3 processor.
Thank you.
I do have a lap rest ( though it does not have a built in cooling fan), in which I have rigged up a way to raise the bottom of my pc further off the rest, with the laptop tilted to help air flow back and out through the cooling vents. My Hard Drive died a few weeks ago, so I did replace that and while in the depths of my computer I inspected the heat sink and cooling fan, I cleaned away most of the dust, but the issues still persist.
I am not sure what else I can try besides just trying to get a lap rest with some built in cooling fans, as I feel there is quite limited airflow underneath and around the computer even with my rigged lift. Do you have any suggestions?
I guess I should say it is a Dell Inspiron N5010 running Ubuntu 12.04 with an Intel i3 processor.
Thank you.
