Generally, you always determine this by just running the computer for a while. You get to know what it will do under different conditions. You can find charts of maximum CPU temps online, but it's unlikely you'll get anywhere near those before the thing just shuts down.
Our old Dell laptop was slowing down after it warmed up. At first I thought it might be a bad wireless card, but I tried a USB receiver and it did the same. Like molasses after an hour. I pulled the heatsink off the cpu, cleaned up both sides, and applied a fresh bead of heatsink compound. Runs good now. Luckily ours was fairly easy to do this. I just googled the instructions. On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Edward Yarborough<[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone know or have an idea on how I can find the normal operating temp > of a Dell D600 notebook? They have made it extremely hard to find. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
