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    what's the max my notebooks heat could reach

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by justbrake, Aug 30, 2009.

  1. justbrake

    justbrake Notebook Evangelist

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    I'm playing a lot of movies online from netflex and others and I keep playing with the fan speeds and was wondering what's the safe temp to stay at I'd like to get a notebook cooler but I'm using one of those notebook rolling tables so theirs no room for one unless they have some kind of fans I could hook on top and have them cool the keyboard down,

    I think pushing this to a max i'm going to dry out the heat sink paste in a few months or less, any thoughts on this !

    do they sell USB fans for the top of the screen that I could point down to the keyboard?
     
    justbrake, Aug 30, 2009
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  2. Seshan

    Seshan Rawrrr!

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    A USB fan for a screen would be useless... Safe temps I'd say is anything below 90 c. But it will shut it's self down if it starts to over heat.
     
    Seshan, Aug 30, 2009
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    Luke1708 Notebook Virtuoso NBR Reviewer

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    anything in the 80's is safe.
     
    Luke1708, Aug 30, 2009
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    RogueMonk Notebook Deity

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    Sustained high temps (90+) is not good. If your machine goes into the 90s from time to time, that's no issue. Its the sustained high temps that can be a problem to some of your components.
     
    RogueMonk, Aug 30, 2009
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