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New laptop periods of high heat (solved)
I just bought a remanufactured Dell D630 laptop with W7 home 64.
I’m using this computer solely for audio recording and it seems to run fine on W7. I choose this computer because my audio interface is an Echo Mona and requires a pcmcia slot, no brand new computers have it and adapters have a high rate of failure.
When I’m recording I only have Vegas 9.0, Echo sound panel and Speed fan for temp monitoring running. Most of the time the CPU anywhere from 5 to 18% and a 46c temp. About every 10-15 min the CPU usage jumps up as high as 60% and temps as high as 80c in a min or 2 it drops back down to the mid 40s.
I turned off the wifi and nothing else is running. W7 must be doing something for a short period of time causing these jumps in CPU usage. I used to have some links to things you can turn of in XP that are not needed for audio recording.
Does anyone have any suggestions on how to set up W7 for audio recording?
I never monitored the temps in my laptops before but have determined that laptops can run 20 30 deg hotter than a desktop. My desktops run BD rebuilder and all cores are maxed at 100% and never gets above 60c.
Last edited by Datman; 04 Feb 2013 at 20:35.