[Klug-general] How hot is hot?

[J D Freeman]

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On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 01:23:23PM +0100, Jake Subs wrote:
> I've installed a sensors applet in ubuntu for my thinkpad x60s laptop
> because it was getting a bit hot. Now I know how hot but I don't know
> whether it's _too_ hot.
> 
> 56 degress Celsius.
> 
> And that's just running a couple of web browsers, GNU IMP, text editor...
> 
> Is that too hot? If so, how can I cool it? Or is it this confounded
> muggy summer?

The question of How hot is hot? just makes me want to answer:

|<--------------------------->| (not to scale)

Which is entirely unhelpful.

I have an x31 which currently thinks its at 77°C for the cpu, and 66°C for
the harddisk. I am doing rather alot on it tho.

The laptop shuts itself down at 92°C as to hot (managed to hit this during
a game of OpenTTD. 

BY and large modern devices tend to turn themselves off before they cook
themselves completely. 

HTH

J

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