UnknownDragon

Not yet. I have to get ready for work and head out. Ill be doing that tomorrow when I have time again to putz with the machine and the packages. But to the crowd thanks for the links for things to try. Ill try and update after messing with it.

System at idle

Alright, short story time Last week I found a laptop on ebay for cheap to mess around with. It was listed as an 11" Dell P24T. Its full ID i wish i knew was an Inspiron 11" 3180. It has an AMD A6-9220 inside. I thought this should be cool. I know its got a 32GB EMMC drive and I planned to do two things with it. Flash it with some flavor of Linux. Practice correcting/applying thermal paste with it. It was only 65$. Well. After screwing around with a terrible windows install I finally got Ubuntu Budgie running on it. But I have ran into something that i was not aware when purchasing the device, hence wishing I knew the full model design number. Dell in their infinite wisdom chose to use a passive cooling system on a 28 watt APU. This thing in Linux gets not just HOT, but absolutely toasty over the passive cooler on the left side of the keyboard. So I am looking for a decent tutorial now on how to thermal throttle the APU myself. I think Linux is just running it at max capacity, and Dell's UEFI bios is not very functional on this device, its pretty lean with few options for anything. Any assistance from the Linux guru's out here would be appreciated or a link to some magical package that I can grab to curb the processor so I don't melt the thing would be great.

Lol yeah I wish the 3770t were cheaper or I'd slide that lower tdp i7 in. I'll get the board make and post them later. See what we got. Cpuz 3ill pull that right?

Hey all, if this has been answered before let me know and ill go read that thread. I have an old Lenovo desktop that i have restored and partially upgraded with some aftermarket components (EVGA 500 Bronze PSU and GTX 1060 for starters) that i want to keep around for longer It has a i3-3220 in it, and i wanted to know if i can just get a i7-3770 or 3770K off of Ebay and swap them out without issue? Is there anything beyond just a clean thermal paste job i need to do? New Heatsink? Bios tweak? W10 issues to get around? Ill post photos of it later if you can stand the bad cable jobs inside. but yeah any ideas from the crowd?