Le 22/08/2020 à 00:22, David C. Rankin a écrit : the computer involved: https://www.asus.com/Laptops/N550JV/
(1) if there is any dust build-up in the cooling paths within your laptop, you will see temp spikes under any load. The cure is to clean them out
I opened the computer one hour ago. It's really needed, cleaning without opening is dangerous as you said, and may send dust in odd places. It was not so much dusty, but the fan blade where dusty and this may have slowed down air flow. Fixed now. I didn't touch the heat pipe, if it was this the cpu would have shut down faster. I also add a plasmoid in my screen (kde) to have fan speed and temperature in sight :-) (59°C right now, but no big load, my video work is finished :-)
(BUT YOU MUST TAKE CARE NOT TO OVERSPEED YOUR FANS IN THE PROCESS)
sure. Be gentle with the house vacuum cleaner :-). I use mostly a brush.
You want to "peg-the-fan" to prevent it from spinning. (you hit it with the shop vac
I only test the fan by blowing in the exaust to see if the blade do they job (ok) and you can easily send it spinning 10X its limit and potentially
cause it to fly apart)
don't be a brute :-))
So those are the two things and approaches I know to help with CPU heat problems. The dust-bunnie issues should be an every couple of month maintenance thing anyway
my desk is not overly cleaned and the computer can spend a year between two cleanings (it's the first time I notice a overheating), but I've seen long time ago a room filled of used computers sent for refurbishing and *full* of dust as much as the vacum bag!! incredible. Of course nobody wanted to touch them :-))
is fine for desktops with all the cooling in the world, but is horrible for laptops that are a couple of years old.
honestly, I don't have computers newer than 5 years old, and kde works like a charm. Much better than previous kde incarnations, even on 10 years old computers. fact is, I can try to use icewm (the openSUSE rescue system) when doing heavy work, but I wonder if it's really better as I use kdenlive, dolphin or digikam. I will go from 15.1 to 15.2 pretty soon, my plasmashell is severely broken, the taskbar become unresponsive ever few minutes, but I need a fresh install, so need time :-(
I can't comment on there CPU demand, but you need to size your desktop to what your hardware can handle.
you know, I bough this computer second hand, but nearly new, 3 years ago. I just scanned the net to find if I could find a better one for less than $1000 and didn't... I have 15Gb memory, i7, 500Gb ssd. I will just change the secondary hdd (in dvd caddy) for a 1Tb ssd and voilà, I hope for at least two more years.
So longer than I initially intended, but hopefully it provides some options
it does, thanks jdd NB: opening a laptop just for leaning or update ram or disk is quite easy. Train on an older one, here are some example, just to share some experience (not two laptop are the same) https://www.culte.org/pmwiki/?n=Rubriques.CommentDMonterUnPCPortable -- http://dodin.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org