One simple trick and my Thinkpad x220 got cooler by over 10 degrees

>>60277116
no but it seems incredibly tricky, i used to have a 2011 hp laptop and i cooled it by removing the keyboard and putting 2 tower fans on the mobo

>>60277226
I need to take that laptop with me so removing keyboard is out of the question.

>>60277314
well its a laptop, temps are supposed to be high, it wont be damaged by high temps, most laptops can go up to 100C before any damage occurs and it will start throttling even sooner, in the last year of its life my hp laptop ran at 98C constantly with 300mhz throttle

>>60277116
But why?

I have no experience with the X220 however my T420 stays at around 50c with light usage and the fan turned off.

Is the X220's cooling really that bad?

>>60277419
I'm running computations for 48 h straight on all 4 cores with turbo boost. It doesn't like running at 3.31 ghz for hours. Before installing the fan it reached 97 degrees. Now it's 77-83. I don't want it to shut down on 100.

>>60277463
>4 cores
what

>>60277485
X220 with best i5 has 4 physical cores. You can buy an i7 model.

protip: open it up, remove the thermal paste with a microfiber cloth, apply new one, and finally use canned air to blow out any dust in the heatsink and fan.

Though it seems now would be a good time to invest in a custom desktop PC. Maybe R7 1700 CPU if you need that much processing power.

>>60277520
Dude the 2540m has only two cores with Hyperthreading, look it up at Intel's site. Same as my T420 having four cores with HT making the OS display eight cores.

>>60277542
I have some dried apple juice on my mobo. Tried to clean it but some of it refused to let go. Once it dried I placed some tape to prevent shorting and it worked liked that since 2014.

>>60277116
i have passive cooling.

>>60277581
I5 with 2 cores? Intel tricked me!

>>60277116
are you fucking blowing air into the exhaust

what a fucking retard

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>>60277668
Isn't it supposed to blow on the side and draw air on the back?

I cleaned and changed thermal paste. less than 10ºC less (Win7 PRO). 70º IDLE, 93º underload.
After that I installed linux mint. 53º idle. 79º underload. Make your numbers.

>>60277784
Install thinkpad specific packages from thinkwiki. Your Mint obviously cannot into turbo-boost.

>>60277820
>thinkwiki
Explain this. Just made a quick search but don't know what Im looking for.
Thanks in advance.

>>60277116
>this one simple trick made OPs laptop 10 degrees cooler and basically you are fucking stupid
>subscribe to OPs blog to learn more

>>60277116
I just use the internal fan, my T420 stays cool all the time, even if i use the quadro

Btw I would like to thanks all my fellow neckbearded manchildren for the advice to buy a x220. Feels comfy as fuck.

>>60278417
>X thinklets
when will they learn

>>60278459
Dude, for shitposting on the sofa after a hard day resetting passwords @ work? Even the TN panel looks good to me.

>>60278459
Hey, that 16+ hours battery life with slice battery is totally worth it.

>>60277520
>x220
>not x230

>>60277739
no, it draws from bottom and blows on the side and the back.
t. x230 and t420 user

That's an awesome idea OP desu senpai. I'm going to draw and 3D-Print a fan holder for my X230 dock.

>>60281454
You were right... the temp sensor showed 77 degrees and the laptop hanged anyways.

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>>60281513
Dis gon b gud

>>60282497
Shall I post results in /tpg/ this weekend?

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>>60277116

You can get a new heatsink for $20 and it's incredibly easy to replace. I recently installed a new one into my X230, and it dropped the idle temps by ten degrees.

I do a bit of light gaming on it as well, and pic related actually helps.

>>60277918
came here to see this

>>60277116
>10 Celsius degrees
Fixed.
Degrees Celsius is a point on the Celsius scale.
Celsius Degrees are a measurement using Celsius Degrees.

>>60277634
It gets worse. There are
>i7
chips with 2 physical cores. AMD can't get A Ryzen derived chip ready for mobile fast enough.

>>60282657
Please do

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>>60285138

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Does the X220 have such strong heat problems?
I just ran Prime95 on my X230 i5-3320m for about 10 minutes and it wouldn't even reach 90°C or reduce clock speed.

>>60287438
but you do get 0.2ghz more than with the i5, go- ... guy! definitely worth the affordable $299 price increase :^)

>>60277116
It sucks from the bottom or through the keyboard, your blasting air backwards mate.