when I turn the evaluation on when analyzing my games my laptop sounds like its about to explode.
does anyone else also have this problem ?
does anyone else also have this problem ?
Yep, here. Your CPU heats up really quickly when using the engine and your fans try to cool it down, but they will struggle. I get very high temperatures and I haven't yet been able to figure out a solution, unfortunately. When I had a desktop pc temps weren't a problem at all, but now with a Laptop I make sure to never use the engine more than is absolutely necessary. Pretty annoying. Stockfish is extremely demanding and doesn't seem to be build with laptops in mind. Until now it also doesn't seem as if anybody would like to fix this issue. Using Stockfish is more demanding for my laptop's CPU than playing for example Horizon Zero Dawn with 60fps. And while I can lower fps if any game let's my laptop heat up too much, I can't do that with Stockfish. I guess we will just have to live with it.
You can try a Laptop Cooling Pad. I have no personal experience with these but I know alot of people use them.
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Not a solution. Some people think it cools by a few degrees, many say it's just a fancy and expensive laptop stand and I agree with this notion. The problem is the software used in combination with laptops. You can try downvolting the laptop, you can repaste your CPU, those measures will work to some extent (although downvolting for me didn't do much at all but slow down my laptop...)., but even if you do all this your laptop will still heat up significantly the moment you use engine analysis and to an extent that is barely tolerable.
Against the noise you can use noise cancelling headphones. Against the heat: no clue. I would love for lichess to give us more settings, not just the "CPUs" setting, which I already put on 1 out of 19. Also I can't really customize the depth limit, which is not cool. 22 is enough usually, but it will gladly move up to 28 most of the times and that's just my computer aging. There is also the "Infinite analysis" setting, which I toggled off. The description says toggling it on "removes the depth limit and keeps your computer warm". Great. So I disabled this and it's still going deeper than I'd like it to and the laptop gets super hot. It will literally jump from degrees around 40 into the 80s/90s. What the heck.
Against the noise you can use noise cancelling headphones. Against the heat: no clue. I would love for lichess to give us more settings, not just the "CPUs" setting, which I already put on 1 out of 19. Also I can't really customize the depth limit, which is not cool. 22 is enough usually, but it will gladly move up to 28 most of the times and that's just my computer aging. There is also the "Infinite analysis" setting, which I toggled off. The description says toggling it on "removes the depth limit and keeps your computer warm". Great. So I disabled this and it's still going deeper than I'd like it to and the laptop gets super hot. It will literally jump from degrees around 40 into the 80s/90s. What the heck.
How old is your laptop?
I have a very old laptop, and sometimes i clean the fan bay with a vaccume cleaner to remove the dust, this helps a bit. You do not have to open the laptop for it, just hold the pipe of the cleaner on the the fan bay (where the hot air comes out of the laptop). Do not use full power, it is a little bit risky to damage the fan otherwise. To clean a laptop professionell you need knowledge and experience, because you have to open the laptop to clean the laptop from the inside, but this would help a lot.
I have a very old laptop, and sometimes i clean the fan bay with a vaccume cleaner to remove the dust, this helps a bit. You do not have to open the laptop for it, just hold the pipe of the cleaner on the the fan bay (where the hot air comes out of the laptop). Do not use full power, it is a little bit risky to damage the fan otherwise. To clean a laptop professionell you need knowledge and experience, because you have to open the laptop to clean the laptop from the inside, but this would help a lot.
Speaking for me: New gaming laptop. For some reason I can't reproduce the mentioned temps now. Don't know if they did something already or if I changed a setting somewhere that helped. I wouldn't know what though. The noise remains a buzzkiller, although as stated noise cancelling headphones take the edge off. So if the OP's temperatures are reasonable, maybe that's an easy and practical "solution". It's not great if you are in the library, but works if you are alone.
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