[Ti] Design and/or heat dissipation issues?

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

At 19:09 -0600 4/12/04, Chris Olson wrote:
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>The faster the chip's clock speed, the hotter it runs.

I know we know this, but I still ran the experiment.

As I said before, my porcessor runs towards the 
top end of the range, with my normal 24/7 use. 
Between 60 and 63°C.

I used the Energy Saver control panel to reduce the processor speed.

I changed nothing in the use pattern.

Of course, everything runs (a litttle) slower, 
BUT the temperature is now around 55 to 58°C.
The fan is harldy ever on.

This will be a useful work-around for me, when I 
want to use internet telephony or discreetly 
record meetings, without the internal mic being 
drowned by the fan noise.  I wish I could tweak 
the processor speed up a little, as I feel that I 
could run a bit faster and keep the tem,perature 
between 58 and 60°C, with out the fan coming on. 
Maybe one day we will have that kind of control. 
Unless one of you Unix guys could write some 
instruction with a GUI for us that would do 
this....

regards, Trevor