I currently use my old ThinkPad laptop as a home server with few small services.
However, I'm afraid that the laptop I have him always on and he runs, that this dan somehow gets too hot or gff. The burning begins.
Therefore, I wanted to ask if he has installed laptop (with Windows 7) already an automatic shutdown, who this gets too hot.
As far as I do not know, but with the program Core Temp you can adjust that the laptop goes down from a certain temperature down
These worries are unfounded, because modern CPUs detect overheating and lower the clock so nothing can happen.
How does your notebook behave on summer days? Was it generally very hot? Then I recommend you a laptop cooler, which cools down at least the hot surface, which will thank you all the components, especially the electrolytic capacitors.
At the CPU temperature, which is measured inside on the semiconductor chip, where the actual heating takes place, brings the external cooler not much, but the built-in cooler is responsible and should also have been large enough.
Unfortunately, there have been many notebooks in recent years, which have not received the fan size that would have been necessary because of the ever flatter design. They are not cooled well under load and at high outside temperatures they very quickly reduce the CPU clock.
I would not use such a notebook as a server. Do not forget the power supply of your notebook. How does it heat up? I use a slightly larger notebook cooler and mount the power supply with 2 cable ties on the cooler so that it is also cooled by the air flow.
Correspondingly structured servers with older notebooks run for me for years without problems.
Greetings, Dalko
PS: to all who read this… Please do not comment on the meaningfulness… I know that a notebook is a bit oversized and consumes a lot of energy… On the other hand, a product should, as long as it still works and its use is not completely wrong, be used as long as possible.
