Latest version / Older laptop - Overheating.
Posted: May 21st, 2021, 8:20 am
Hello All,
I am running an 11 year old Sony VAIO laptop with windows 10 and the latest version of sab. This is a fresh install of both windows10 pro x64/sab. I’m having an issue where the laptop will overheat and shut off during a large unpack. Until recently this same laptop was running Windows 7 pro and a version of sab from at least 4 years ago. Downloads on the older version with windows 7 would sometimes fail but it would never cause the CPU to overheat/shut down. On this current install I’ve tried the following config options to mitigate the problem:
Pause downloading during post-processing: on
External process priority: low
Only get articles for top of the queue: on
Direct unpack: disabled.
Article cache was set to 900+ by default (would 450 be better in this case? System has 4gb of RAM)
Problem remains.
I’m thinking of lowering the ssl encryption from the default setting to AES128-SHA and adding the following setting in Extra Par2 Parameters for Windows: “-lc1” to use only one core.
Are there any additional settings I could use to prevent overheating on this older laptop? I don’t have any additional tasks running in the background other than the web browser showing the sab page. I know this laptop is old but other than this issue it still works well. I would prefer trying different settings before having to buy a new pc.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you!
I am running an 11 year old Sony VAIO laptop with windows 10 and the latest version of sab. This is a fresh install of both windows10 pro x64/sab. I’m having an issue where the laptop will overheat and shut off during a large unpack. Until recently this same laptop was running Windows 7 pro and a version of sab from at least 4 years ago. Downloads on the older version with windows 7 would sometimes fail but it would never cause the CPU to overheat/shut down. On this current install I’ve tried the following config options to mitigate the problem:
Pause downloading during post-processing: on
External process priority: low
Only get articles for top of the queue: on
Direct unpack: disabled.
Article cache was set to 900+ by default (would 450 be better in this case? System has 4gb of RAM)
Problem remains.
I’m thinking of lowering the ssl encryption from the default setting to AES128-SHA and adding the following setting in Extra Par2 Parameters for Windows: “-lc1” to use only one core.
Are there any additional settings I could use to prevent overheating on this older laptop? I don’t have any additional tasks running in the background other than the web browser showing the sab page. I know this laptop is old but other than this issue it still works well. I would prefer trying different settings before having to buy a new pc.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you!