[ltp] Thermal woes on Thinkpad T60p

[Helen Borrie]

At 09:44 AM 29/04/2009, Roman Haefeli wrote:
>another approach to make the cpu cooler _without_ losing performance is
>to lower the core voltage (undervolting). on frequency scalable cpus
>this means setting a seperate voltage for each frequency. in order to do
>that, you need to apply the linux-phc patch to the cpufreq kernel
>module. as a nice side effect, you save power and get longer battery
>life. 

I'm not getting any temperature surges with my recently-acquired T60 (not T60p),   albeit it's younger than yours and probably has less "grunty" video requirements than yours.  I'm not playing video games nor making other heavy uses of X, though. In my ignorance, I always consider anything hotter than "hand-hot" (48deg C) to be "too hot" (as someone else said, in different words).  

Just as a matter of common sense, given the extra energy being both consumed and generated inside a tight little plastic case by GPUs and multi-core CPUs and the way some software has of thrashing resources, we owe it to our laptops to make it as easy as possible for them to dissipate heat adequately - even Thinkpads!  I'm not talking about those insane gadgomaniac cooling platforms with USB-driven fans grinding away underneath the hotspots, either!

Operating in a climate that hovers in the mid-30's in Spring and Summer and often gets to 40, with no air-conditioning, I've always used lapramps with my notebooks - have done so since they came on the market. ( http://www.lapramp.com.au/ ).  No moving parts, indestructible, takes up no space in your laptop bag.  For me, it's a case where the simplest of concepts translates to a solution that works beautifully.

That said, the OP does seem to have "bought a pup".  Don't give up!  The 3-year warranty is intended to ensure that you do get what you paid for. My own experience of (local - NSW Australia) Lenovo techsupport is that they will do whatever it takes.

Helen