My main concern is battery life when out portable.
While I agree cooling design should be OK, on older machines typically in
use there will almost certainly be performance degradation due to dirt!
If their CPU is hit hard on a high duty cycle will they be OK? Only the
machine user will know how it performs under such loads.
Thermal cycling is another consideration, again duty cycle dependent.
My query is therefore how the load increase occurs, in particular the
length of time it lasts and how frequent it will be. Hopefully no problem
but just some things to check.
Alan G0TLK, sent from my mobile device
On 9 June 2021 22:49:58 Richard Shaw <hobbes1...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 4:33 PM Alan <al...@alangroups.plus.com> wrote:
With 30% extra CPU power consumption those running on battery power might
want to think twice about use of these extensions, and some on mains power
might also not want to add additional thermal stress and/or electricity
consumption, if it's drawn for any length of time?
The cooling for your processor should be designed to handle the maximum TDP
of the processor, if not, then you've got a much bigger problem. I would
make an exception for laptop processors since they have very limited
cooling but they should throttle anyway. Either case, it shouldn't be a
problem.
When there are test builds available I'll check if there's any noticeable
increase in power draw. I have a very nice UPS that gives me the current
draw in watts.
Thanks,
Richard
KF5OIM
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