It's worse than that, it's physics, Jim!

[elfs]

Average temperature running Prey with the stock Thinkpad 60: 95C.

Average temperature running Prey with the new fan and Arctic Silver on the interface: 60C.

Something was very wrong with this machine.

Comments

Holy potatoes... that old fan/heatsink was roasting things.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Even under peak CPU+Graphics load (Bioshock at around 960x600 w/ 16xFSAA) I've yet to see any of the temperature-sensors on mine peak over 52C on my T61p, yeesh, had no clue the T60's could actually get even that hot without dying instantly, let alone 95C. =O.o=

Might explain why I'm one of the few that's had no overheating issues at all with their T61p though, I may have just lucked out into one that runs amazingly cool for some unknown reason. Glad the new fan made such a huge difference though.

[sianmink.livejournal.com]

95c? That's impressive.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

I mentioned the first time I played Prey (http://elfs.livejournal.com/888252.html) that not only did it routinely run hot, but once it ran so hot the kernel initiated an emergency ACPI shutdown due to overheat.

And, amusingly, it was a Star Trek joke in the subject then, too.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

holy thermodynamics, batman!

[gromm.livejournal.com]

You can *feel* the entropy coming off that thing!

Count Your Blessings

[(Anonymous)]

Something was very wrong with this machine.

Count your blessings that you still have a machine left after that.

--DB_Story