Folding Forum

Oh okay. When I downloaded the new gpus.json they weren't 9 yet.

They should have been. Ah sorry, misread the numbers. I'll leave iGPUs at 7

Sounds good, especially since they may be getting thermally limited if folding on the CPU at the same time. I get more PPD from folding on both than from folding on just GPU or just CPU (not nearly as much as the sum of the two, but still pretty good).

I'm glad I made this request! Now my little laptop is hot to the touch again, just the way I like it.

Let's see how you'll talk, when your laptop bursts in flames

I think with modern "thermally optimized" hardware the only concern around laptops is the battery. It might not like high temperatures, otherwise I don't really see any problems with laptop folding.

I'll stick to my cautious approach ;P

On old, but still good idea with many laptops is to elevate it a bit off whatever surface it is on. That allows some airflow over the bottom case, helps especially with metal cases.

The battery might not like it but it will survive. It's replaceable. I'm more concerned about the electrolytic capacitors. Those are the components that are harder to replace in modern laptops and they are almost always the first components to fail. And heat accelerates their failure.

But this is a small laptop. I don't need it to have multi-decade reliability.