Submission + - Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop that doesn't overheat? 2
AqD writes: Last year we started to replace business/multimedia-grade laptops with gaming laptops at work, after several years of frustration with overheating and throttling issues that plagued our laptops from Acer, ASUS, Dell, Lenovo, ... basically every brands you can find on market, making it impossible to write code and run db/test environment all on the same laptop.
The first new batch comes from Clevo because their gaming laptops don't look like gaming laptops, and they offer 3-6 disk slots which we badly need. The result is acceptable, however, not quite as good as I had expected. Mine has i7-4700mq CPU which is more or less equivalent to older i7 on desktop, but its temperature is raised to 70-80C while turbo boost is on even after I put the best thermal paste; my friend's i7-4801mq is worse — it could never stay in the advertised 3.6GHz for more than a few seconds before it burns up over 90 and starts to throttle, its benchmark result is nearly identical to 4700mq due to heat problem. And it's only 3.6GHz! The best i7 CPU on desktop could easily have closer to 5GHz with 6 cores / 12 threads running!
So what should we choose next time? We're not looking for something cool or slim or light. We need real, non-fake laptops which can at least run prime calculation at advertised turbo boost speed, full cores/threads for an entire day, and better with manual fan control plus easy access to the fan for cleansing.
PS: great thanks to IntellJ being able to utilize all the cores for code analysis now. It burned my old Dell though.
The first new batch comes from Clevo because their gaming laptops don't look like gaming laptops, and they offer 3-6 disk slots which we badly need. The result is acceptable, however, not quite as good as I had expected. Mine has i7-4700mq CPU which is more or less equivalent to older i7 on desktop, but its temperature is raised to 70-80C while turbo boost is on even after I put the best thermal paste; my friend's i7-4801mq is worse — it could never stay in the advertised 3.6GHz for more than a few seconds before it burns up over 90 and starts to throttle, its benchmark result is nearly identical to 4700mq due to heat problem. And it's only 3.6GHz! The best i7 CPU on desktop could easily have closer to 5GHz with 6 cores / 12 threads running!
So what should we choose next time? We're not looking for something cool or slim or light. We need real, non-fake laptops which can at least run prime calculation at advertised turbo boost speed, full cores/threads for an entire day, and better with manual fan control plus easy access to the fan for cleansing.
PS: great thanks to IntellJ being able to utilize all the cores for code analysis now. It burned my old Dell though.
