The purpose of the CoolSense application is to deliberately degrade system performance in such a way that it reduces the production of heat, while extending battery life. It also slows down your fans, to extend battery life.

Without the CoolSense application, your laptop will have the potential for full performance and fan speed.

It's a bit like Process Tamer, with very little in the way of user options (only on and off), with the added feature of slowing down your fans, again, with no ability for the user to adjust it.

So, if you prefer your laptop to be deliberately partially crippled, in the name of quietness and longer battery life, by all means use the CoolSense software.

But if you'd like your fans to cool more effectively, able to use full speed when necessary, and you'd like a bit more performance, shut off CoolSense.

The only real penalty for not running it is a bit more noise and a need to recharge more frequently. I can see where you might want to run CoolSense when you are running on battery power, to extend the time before you need to recharge, but if you are connected to AC, you probably should turn it off, since recharging the battery will generate additional heat that CoolSense wasn't designed to compensate for. Turning it off will allow your fans to get rid of that additional heat, thereby prolonging the lifespan of your laptop.

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• Humble Indie Bundle 14

-app103 (October 24, 2018, 10:02 PM)

Thank you app103!
From that Bundle i can offer single Steam Keys as gift.

Pixel Piracy
UnEpic
Super Splatters

If anyone is interested in any of these Keys, let me know which one and I'll PM you the Details to redeem it after i found out how. :-)

-KodeZwerg (October 25, 2018, 05:29 PM)

I don't think you can keep the downloadable games and gift the Steam versions. You have to tie your Humble Bundle account to a Steam account, and then click the links to add them to your Steam account. They don't give you individual links that you can give to others.