It won't catch fire but it could melt the plastic. Polyethelyne melts at 110C-130C depending on the density and Polypropylene at 170C. Not sure what material laptops are made of but I would think polypropylene to to be more likely. Still need another 30C to melt it. I would be amazed if the package temps could hit 170C without the system shutting off though.
I didn't say it would throttle, I said it was bad for the laptop. As in it will shorten the lifespan of the hardware.
pauldacheez Wrote:NatchVi: My semi-well-known MacBook Air always exceeds that when running Dolphin – it hovers around 200ºF (fuck conversions), even after I applied some Arctic Silver 5 a week or three ago. Doesn't even throttle – it seems to stay at or near its ~2.6 GHz dual-core boost the whole time. Either Apple nailed the thermals on this specific model or I got lucky in the Foxconn CPU-cooling lottery.
I didn't say it would throttle, I said it was bad for the laptop. As in it will shorten the lifespan of the hardware.
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