Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 03:09:33 11/30/02
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On November 29, 2002 at 17:38:27, Mark Dambrink wrote: >I'm a first timer here so I don't know if this topic already passed the forum. >The moment my chessprograms start thinking for their next move, the processor of >my notebook starts heating up quickly and the cooling-fan of my notebook realy >starts blowing hard, building up the noise level close to a level that my >neighbours must think i'm vacuming the house. >I remember reading something concerning downgrading your processor could add to >a cooler chip. Could adding more memory be an option? Adding more memory won't make any difference - the processor, for once, is being obliged to sing for its supper :) P4 or P4M where M = mobile ... ? I suspect the first, as my Dell Latitude has a P3M/1.2GHz which is specifically engineered for mobile computing - it can be set up so that, on battery power, the processor speed switches to 2/3 of that advertised when nothing much is happening - and haven't had any problems, even when running the United Devices client or Ruffian under Arena (Fritz 8 ordered) ... After this good experience, and bad ones with less-well-designed notebooks or those using desktop processors, any notebook I recommend to anyone else will have an M processor. http://www.intel.com/design/mobile/ Alastair
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