[keithwalton]

I've got a gui for my dell I8100 (P3-M 1.13GHz) which allows me to control fan settings. I've upped the speed they spin at and lowered the temp they kick in at. Folding gromacs it sits towards the mid to low 60C which is fine and noise is low and consistant (unlike the default of nothing for 1 minutes then 5 mins of full out blasting cycle) The P-M running at full whack is somthing like 25w which isnt that hard to get rid off. I did think of creating some kind of water cooling for my laptop. It has a heatpipe heatsink with a pair of small fans blowing on it. If i could encase the sink and run water in and out via the fan holes it could be done. I'm just too lazy to even try

As for folding speed, i think they could be potentially quick, clock for clock in most apps they out run Amd chips. The banias has 1mb of l2 cache, and the dothan has 2mb of cache (newer chip) They have sse2 as well which should help with dgromacs.

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