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Were the benchmarks run on a cooled room? Some years ago, as a student, I paid $$$ for a Toshiba with 4 cores and hyperthreading, and I could only run them well

Were the benchmarks run on a cooled room? Some years ago, as a student, I paid $$$ for a Toshiba with 4 cores and hyperthreading, and I could only run them well on the winter or in a very cool room. In the summer it would reach 100C and constantly throttle, so I do think that temperature is a key issue, sp. now with slimmmer laptops

tedmiston 8y ago
Not sure on an individual basis but the Geekbench numbers are aggregate across all users of the machine. I reached out to the video author to see if he'd be willing to run Geekbench on it in a freezer vs not. https://twitter.com/kicksopenminds/status/1019420588467740673 https://twitter.com/kicksopenminds/status/101942058846774067...
- firmgently 8y ago
  Two suggestions were made: 1. Run GeekBench back to back (realistic: a prolonged workload... which would show the Mac as being worse) 2. Working in a freezer (completely unrealistic situation... which would make the Mac seem better). Only one suggestion gets passed on to the video author. Science (Apple flavour).
  - tedmiston 8y ago
    I can't speak for everyone but I already run Geekbench multiple times when I use it and always have. I think most users do the same. The author is experienced in testing machines so I felt this point was redundant to state.
earenndil 8y ago
> 100C Are you sure?? That sounds a bit...hot. Do you mean 100F?
- saagarjha 8y ago
  The insides of computers can frequently reach that range.
  - isostatic 8y ago
    My thinkpad shuts down with a CPU temperature of about 100-105. It's currently idling (98% idle according to top) at 80C, with the CPU clocked down to 1199MHz. The chip is an i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz The fan is broken, so it can reach shutdown temperature even when I have the "powersave" governer set (which I normally do)
- kalleboo 8y ago
  My MBP will hit 99 C before it starts ramping up the fans or throttling the CPU to keep cool https://imgur.com/a/GFkMXfg https://imgur.com/a/GFkMXfg

tedmiston 8y ago

Not sure on an individual basis but the Geekbench numbers are aggregate across all users of the machine. I reached out to the video author to see if he'd be willing to run Geekbench on it in a freezer vs not. https://twitter.com/kicksopenminds/status/1019420588467740673 https://twitter.com/kicksopenminds/status/101942058846774067...

firmgently 8y ago
Two suggestions were made: 1. Run GeekBench back to back (realistic: a prolonged workload... which would show the Mac as being worse) 2. Working in a freezer (completely unrealistic situation... which would make the Mac seem better). Only one suggestion gets passed on to the video author. Science (Apple flavour).
- tedmiston 8y ago
  I can't speak for everyone but I already run Geekbench multiple times when I use it and always have. I think most users do the same. The author is experienced in testing machines so I felt this point was redundant to state.

earenndil 8y ago

> 100C Are you sure?? That sounds a bit...hot. Do you mean 100F?

saagarjha 8y ago
The insides of computers can frequently reach that range.
- isostatic 8y ago
  My thinkpad shuts down with a CPU temperature of about 100-105. It's currently idling (98% idle according to top) at 80C, with the CPU clocked down to 1199MHz. The chip is an i5 CPU M 560 @ 2.67GHz The fan is broken, so it can reach shutdown temperature even when I have the "powersave" governer set (which I normally do)
kalleboo 8y ago
My MBP will hit 99 C before it starts ramping up the fans or throttling the CPU to keep cool https://imgur.com/a/GFkMXfg https://imgur.com/a/GFkMXfg