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17" PB, Gaming and Heat
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The PB is my primary and only machine. I use it for day to day work and gaming at night, after work. The thing I'm worried about is gaming-namely, excessive heat. I've noticed that the bottom of the machine get very hot and lately there's a noticable "hot electronic machine smell" coming out of the machine even when I'm not doing intensive work.
I know this is not a gaming machine, per se, but I don't want to change the way I use my machine because it's too delicate. Maybe I should have gotten something different, but it seems like it should be able to handle everything I throw at it or Apple should specify what can and can't be done with this machine. Do any of you have experience using FPS intense games on the 17" PB for extended periods of time? Is it something I should avoid. They didn't put a 64mb video card in there for nothing.
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what about that cooling device (i think called the PodiumPod) ... that might cool the bottom/unit down ... ?
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Originally posted by vancenase:
what about that cooling device (i think called the PodiumPod) ... that might cool the bottom/unit down ... ?
I've got it elevated, but it doesn't seem to make much difference. It's such a compressed space-I don't think anything reasonable can be done to cool it. I think it's either good or bad to use it this way. Since I didn't pay for it (bought for me by my employer) I could run it into the ground and maybe get another, but I don't like that scenario.
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doesn't the podiumpad have fans on the bottom of it to help cool it? or am i thinking of another product? something has fans ... that's got to do something?
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Join Date: Apr 2003
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It shouldn't be getting THAT hot, as in causing the cooking lacquer smell... it very well could be the lacquer on the logic board PCB liquifying. Now, I've not seen this issue with a 17" before, but I have seen it on a few Gigabook Tis and one 12" AlBook (I'm an Apple service technician). It occurs near the video chipset and is caused by the GPU not being bonded to the heatsink/heatpipe very well. The end result can/will be that the GPU will get damaged due to the heat, or the traces in that area will detach. You'll probably need to get it serviced.
Have you seen any video artifacts, or unsual behavior during intensive video work/gaming? Any unusual pauses/stutters after playing for a while?
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