ScanDisk
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I have owned a Thinkpad T42 for about the past two months, and it's great. Only complaint I have about it, is that the fan is rather loud, and I found out that it's normal for Thinkpad's of it's age and series to have a lot of fan noise, because the BIOS fan controller makes the fan go much faster than it needs to be most times.
Because of this someone made a program called TP Fan Control, where you can control fan speed from Windows (XP in my case).
I just tried using it, and while playing Old School Runesape (which is the main reason I bought the T42) if I set it to use the BIOS controller the noise sounds as usual, if I use the "smart" option, it sounds the same as with the BIOS option, and the speed is almost exactly the same too (rpm).
However it does also let you enter fixed speeds from 0-7 (0 being fan off, 7 being almost as fast as it can go, and then there's "64" which is truly as fast it can go).
When I have it at 3, the amount of noise sounds the same, but when I turn it down to 2, it is near silent.
It also tells you the CPU temp, and with a fixed speed of "2" I am not seeing higher than 78c, though with BIOS I am seeing 73-75c.
A friend of mine says that Ideal CPU temp is 73c or less, but up to 75c is fine. However my desktop which is running an i7-4790k 4ghz, is usually in the low-mid 80's, and I once saw it under a stress test get to 88c, and it's worked no problem for well over a year since I installed it.
From what I understand if it's running a bit above 75c then, it will still work, but just not last as long as if it was lower.
So I take it that as long as it's not going much above 80c, it's not ideal but would still be "acceptable"?
I mean I've heard that sometimes some CPUs in macs get up to 90, or even 100c.
Of course I don't know much about temps, which is why I am asking.
Because of this someone made a program called TP Fan Control, where you can control fan speed from Windows (XP in my case).
I just tried using it, and while playing Old School Runesape (which is the main reason I bought the T42) if I set it to use the BIOS controller the noise sounds as usual, if I use the "smart" option, it sounds the same as with the BIOS option, and the speed is almost exactly the same too (rpm).
However it does also let you enter fixed speeds from 0-7 (0 being fan off, 7 being almost as fast as it can go, and then there's "64" which is truly as fast it can go).
When I have it at 3, the amount of noise sounds the same, but when I turn it down to 2, it is near silent.
It also tells you the CPU temp, and with a fixed speed of "2" I am not seeing higher than 78c, though with BIOS I am seeing 73-75c.
A friend of mine says that Ideal CPU temp is 73c or less, but up to 75c is fine. However my desktop which is running an i7-4790k 4ghz, is usually in the low-mid 80's, and I once saw it under a stress test get to 88c, and it's worked no problem for well over a year since I installed it.
From what I understand if it's running a bit above 75c then, it will still work, but just not last as long as if it was lower.
So I take it that as long as it's not going much above 80c, it's not ideal but would still be "acceptable"?
I mean I've heard that sometimes some CPUs in macs get up to 90, or even 100c.
Of course I don't know much about temps, which is why I am asking.