The Two Most Important Things You Can Do For Your Laptop or Notebook PC

1. Enable Power Management (Intel SpeedStep/AMD PowerNow!) even when your laptop is plugged in so your system runs cooler. Power Management lets your CPU run slower (and cooler) when your system is not fully loaded.
   • Advantages:
     1. Fewer crashes
     2. Less risk of leg burns and infertility
     3. Components last years longer, especially hard drives and LiIon batteries.
   • How to do it:
     1. Get to a command prompt (Start->Run->cmd)
     2. Type powercfg /x "home/office desk" /processor-throttle-ac adaptive

2. Install a fan management program.
   • Advantages: same as above.
   • How to do it:
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     2. On the main page, click the Automatic Temperature Control radio button
     3. Click the Options button
     4. Select the Autostart tab, and check the Enable Autostart radio button
     5. Select the Status Reading tab, and check all boxes on that page
     6. Select the Temperature Control tab
     7. Select the CPU tab in the middle of the page
     8. Determine which fan cools the CPU and which cools the GPU:
        1. Change every line so that both fans run at high speed
        2. Change line 1 so that the fans turn on at 20°C and turn off at 20°C
        3. Check only the box to enable the first fan
        4. Move the options window so that you can monitor the CPU and GPU temperatures
        5. If the CPU seems to be cooling much faster than the GPU then the first fan is the CPU fan and the second fan is the GPU fan. If the GPU is cooling much faster than the CPU then the first fan is the GPU fan and the second fan is the CPU fan.
     9. Customize the CPU fan settings:
        1. Disable both fans
        2. Change line 1 so that both fans run at slow speed
        3. Enable the CPU fan
        4. Wait for the CPU temperature to stabilize
        5. Set the turn-off temperature in line 1 to the current CPU temperature
        6. Set the turn-on temperature in line 1 five degrees higher than the current CPU temperature
        7. Set the turn-on temperature in line 2 ten degrees higher than the current CPU temperature
     10. Select the GPU tab, enable only the GPU fan, and customize its settings
     11. Select the Memory tab, enable both fans, and customize their settings
     12. Select the Chipset tab, enable both fans, and customize their settings