On 08/01/2021 16:06, Terry Coles wrote: > On Friday, 8 January 2021 15:26:33 GMT Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote: >> In case anyone's interested, replacing the heatpipe for my laptop did >> fix the issue, it runs much cooler and can now continually boost even >> when under full load for several minutes, rather than thermal throttling. > I wasn't aware that you had a cooling issue on your laptop; perhaps you > raised > it after I went to bed on Tuesday? > > Anyway, years ago I ran a project to develop a military test set based on a > rugged laptop. We replaced the heat pipes in that with longer ones and one > of > the suppliers explained how they work. Apparently it is not uncommon for the > pipe to leak allowing the partial vacuum to fill and the vaporisation process > to stop. > > Just in case you didn't know :-)
Thanks, that's useful. I thought heatpipe failure was extremely uncommon, but perhaps I was mistaken. Good to know anyway :) Hamish
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