Comments on running a Notebook 24x7?

I am considering running a basic AMD-64 notebook 24x7. Beyond running a cooling pad on the bottom, other suggestions to keep the computer from melting?

Thanks

P.S. Or is this an very bad idea?

 

I don't know about running it 24/7, but the cooling pad will help alot. If you are not doing anything and you put it in standby it will do it. Other than that I haven't tried.

 

Freshman year I ran my laptop 24/7 (that was before I had my desktop at school) -- no problems. It would hibernate when it was in my bag (to/from/between classes) and was on battery for 3-5 hours per day. Otherwise, I never set it up to standby or hibernate while on AC power. The cooling pad is definately a good idea.

 

Like the above posts a cooling pad would be a great idea, but I haven't had any problems thus far running my laptop for 24 hours at a time or longer. Longest I ran my baby was for 39 hours then I turned it off to go to school.

One thing though, and this might be an isolated case, Coriolis, a moderator here on the forums, had his system on for about a week if I remember correctly and he had something funny happen. I forget what. Sorry...

I'll try to find the thread or maybe coriolis can come in here and post his problem.

Cheerse,
mike

 

I've had mine on for days and days at a time (over a week on occasion), and not had any real problems [knock on wood]. I never turn it off except to restart or get up and move.

 

i dont know about laptops, but i have had my desktop on for literally months, keeping torrents up, gaming on it (oblivion, bf2, CS..etc...), and it has been rock solid..but i now have her turned off at night while we sleep..its getting noisy with my crossflow fan (300mm fan set on max speed)

also, with a laptop, everything tends to get much hotter then in a desktop..so what i would do, get a cooling pad as stated, and keep it well ventilated (i.e. dont put it into a crowded area.

pb,out.

 

LOL pbcustom I hear yah on the fan noise. My desktop is freakin' loud even though it's must quieter than when I had my Thermaltake Smart fan II on it running full blast. That thing was freakin' loud~! Now I have a SL-97 on it from thermalright, SI or SL? I forget, but yeah one of those babies and a Panaflo 90mm fan on it which is really quiet compared to my old fans.

Still kinda loud since I haven't really tried to match fan speeds on my intake and output fans to keep turbulance down. Because of this my desktop gives off a "wowowowowowowowowoww" sound instead of just whooshing fans.

Sorry to jack the thread.

 

mine is like a noticeable....brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr noise...quite annoying when trying to sleep..or do other things.

pb,out.

 

I leave mine on 24-48hrs at a time no problem. I assume that you're keeping it on for some reason and don't want it to hibernate or standby.

But as per you're question ways to keep your computer for from melting listed from least to most invasive (I've done all )

1) Laptop cooling pad
2) Undervolt & Underclock with NHC or RMClock
3) Remove Heatsink Thermal Pad and replace with High-Grade Thermal Grease
4) Lap your heatsink

Mine runs at about 32° C @ 800MHz while I have it downloading overnight

 

This is not exactly on-topic, but warlord, what's that XP theme you're running? It looks very nice.

 

Once I ran my laptop for 3 days straight and I had no problem with it.

JC

 

I also forgot to mention I applied Radio Shack silicone themal grease when swapping in the PM since that's all I had. My Arctic Silver Ceramique went in today since it just arrived. The Ceramique application takes 12-72 hours to stabilize but, I left my CPU DLing while cleaning the house. I got back to my computer and it was 29°C @800MHz! I wonder what it's going to be at the end of the 72hrs!

WindowBlinds the theme is Advali V3 which is Vista inspired and desktopsidebar which auto switches the wallpapers every few hours. I currently have a selection of nature photos and vista style wallpapers being swapped out. This is a 3week ol screenie:

 

A laptop (with no cooling pad) I use daily at work has been on 24x7 for more than 2 years without any problems.

 

My Sony PCG-GRX580 has been on continually for 3.5 years now (as in powered) with far to frequent reboots to cleanse the OS plaque build-up -- if in the backpack it is in hibernate mode but powered on is far more common (currently at about 7 days on AC since last reboot)....all other problems w/ the GRX series motherboards not withstanding (in my case) I don't think it really matters and worrying about hurting the "delicate hardware" is sort of a non-starter....

Edit: I should also say that I play w/ 1U tall by 1/2U wide racked servers (slide-lock-bar to 1U wide them) where the heat constraints (thermo-couples are your friends, right) are even more severe than in the average lappy and they happily go along for years w/out reboots...different OS than the usual lappy though....

 

When I first bought my MX7515 (which has the AMD 64 4000+), I left it on for a week straight (with no cooling pad) to kinda break in the parts. Didn't have a single problem, and it never got above what I'd consider warm.