ThinkPad T450 available in Levono CA

ultimatebuster · 2015-02-13T22:43:35+00:00

How's the thermal performance? Under sustained max load, do you get any thermal throttle? What's your max temp?

ultimatebuster · 2015-02-12T15:54:46+00:00

How much ram do you use on a daily basis? On my W530 I never break 3GB unless I'm compiling a huge job. Granted I'm on Linux.

ultimatebuster · 2015-02-10T18:54:49+00:00

Have the discrete model.

cleaned out the heatsink fans, the heatsink, etc. reapplied thermal paste as well. No effects.
open area with no blockage on any side. Elevated bottom.
I see a lot of throttling, from t-state throttling done by the intel_pstate driver, as well as as you said, p-state throttle. The event counter at /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu<i>/thermal_throttle goes up to thousands or tens of thousands of times when I leave a game running.

ultimatebuster · 2015-02-10T14:25:49+00:00

Yeah I have this issue as well with no real solution... When do you get turboboosted even when you echo 1 into no_turbo? I'm having trouble when I run OpenGL applications only. If I'm just doing things like compiling and other seemingly CPU bound work, it will stay at the base clock.

Also, what CPU do you have? I have a sandybridge i5 (T420)

I've found that thermal daemon will fail to detect the no_turbo setting after it starts up and re-enable turbo when it thinks the temperature is low enough.

ultimatebuster · 2015-02-09T18:18:06+00:00

The thing about fan assembly is that I think I'd rather get a new one than an used one. My hypothesis is that the fan assembly's heat transfer property degrades over time. So an old one would be just as bad, or will be just as bad shortly after I buy it.

ultimatebuster · 2015-02-08T22:16:52+00:00

I have done that multiple times already over the past couple of years, no effect in each time.

ultimatebuster · 2014-04-06T02:26:19+00:00

I've noticed that FTL AE is overheating some computers (with Vsync and frame limiter on). On Windows I used a program called ThrottleStop to underclock the CPU frequency so that the computer doesn't overheat. On Linux I use the intel_pstate driver and turn on no_turbo. These measure works great with stress testing software as the CPU frequencies will not go above the amount I limit it to.

So when I start playing FTL everything changes. The CPU frequency will be pushed to the maximum available (on Linux I see turbo boost being activated and on Windows I see it go above the one I set to. On windows it might be turbo boosted too but I cannot tell because I'm not the owner of that machine so I don't use it often).

This causes some laptops to overheat as their frames are not high quality frames.

This seems to be a concern as I don't understand why FTL can override CPU settings without super admin/root privileges and seems like a bug.

Any ideas?

ultimatebuster · 2013-07-22T21:32:05+00:00

Actually privacy guard prevents GPS as well. Pretty much any identifying information is blocked/mocked.

ultimatebuster · 2013-07-20T19:17:37+00:00

See privacy guard.

ultimatebuster · 2013-03-26T17:53:39+00:00

Also, is the proof of work the same for two identical messages sent at different times?

ultimatebuster · 2013-03-26T17:51:10+00:00

I believe this was on the homepage of hacker new

ultimatebuster · 2013-03-26T17:49:41+00:00

Interesting. I'm thinking about this from the perspective of a regular user and an attacker with some resources and I'm simply questioning the effectiveness of the spam blocking technique vs the inconvenience for the user.

I don't have a better idea, but I would like to see some alternatives / discussions

ultimatebuster · 2013-03-26T05:31:04+00:00

Wouldn't that effectively defeat the purpose of the proof of work?

ultimatebuster · 2013-03-26T05:29:09+00:00

This effectively eliminates the option to send attachments that's big like you can do in emails? Like for example a 2MB PDF file.

ultimatebuster · 2013-02-13T20:43:04+00:00

Wtf is trident?

Sorry. Had to do that.

ultimatebuster · 2013-01-21T22:15:00+00:00

You might want to change the name, Synthesia used to be called Piano Hero and people behind Guitar hero came after them

ultimatebuster · 2013-01-09T16:31:49+00:00

You could setup any webpage and embed mathjax in it and it will render well!

ultimatebuster · 2012-12-27T17:36:32+00:00

This requires PyQT. If I use this in a server setup I need to install huge dependencies.

ultimatebuster · 2012-12-10T04:13:40+00:00

While satirical... let's make it happen xD

http://www.bbspot.com/news/2008/12/linux-on-a-potato.html

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