Chess Engines on Processors with Turbo Boost

I'm in the Market for a new laptop, and since my job is offering me considerable free money toward a laptop, I'll probably get something pretty good.  However, I looked at Dell's Studio XPSs with the Core i7s on their website and I became somewhat apprehensive.

The Processors are quad core, but have normal clock speeds less than 2.0 GHz, which is what my current dual core chip is.  To offset this, they have a Turbo mode that goes up to 2.8 GHz on the lowest chip, higher on others.  I have two qualms about this:

1. Can the processor stay in Turbo mode while it analyzes using a chess engine (or other full loads)
2. Is this thing going to over heat if it does?

I would greatly appreciate any helpful comments on this.

well...I guess no one really has these chips yet huh?

I have a quad-core i7 laptop with Turbo-boost. It doesn't get overheated or anything even when working for days.

Try a program that can tell you what your temp sensors are reading for your cpu and look up what safe temps for your cpu are.

Keep your vents clean and now and again clean your fan.

I'm on a notebook and use aida32. This should be all you need.

P.S. Running long analysis keeps the cpus at 100%. It's a good idea to know what's going on temp-wise!

Wow! I never expected you to be my only responder; thank you very much.

Think nothing of it.

The goldendog

Thanks to you to Goldendog.  I have rmclock on my current laptop, but it is starting to get a little hot.  Maybe I do just need to go inside with the compressed air and see if I've got a ridiculous amount of dust buildup, but I'm a little nervous about doing that on a laptop.

I just q-tipped the fan clean--when the job was a major clean up--and gave a little attention to where I saw dust. Then, with the comp off, I put the vacuum to the intake and outlet vents.

My temps went down quite a lot.

Even just occasionally vacuuming the vents is very helpful, and no disassembly required.