At my wits end (Latitude D630)

Yes to get the heatsink off you have to remove the screen (unplug you wifi & WWAN cards), then the top cover (Palm Rest).

You might just want to have Dell look at it. You might void your warranty by doing it yourself.

 

It won't void my warranty if I do it myself. However, I don't know if I want to mess with it right at the moment. I've been fighting with this thing for so long I think I need a break from it.

 

I went ahead and tore it apart, and put new thermal paste on the heatsink after cleaning everything off. Same problem.

 

I never thought I would say this, but it seems like your CPU needs to be replaced. It's the only common denominator, and the only source of heat production in your system left. See what Dell says about this, 190F with the Intel graphics is ridiculous.

 

I will complain to Dell. What do you think the proper idle and load temps should be for a D630 with integrated graphics?

 

My D630 idles with the CPU around 110F, and my D620 with the T7600 idles around 125F. Both laptops have the Nvidia graphics though.

 

Do you use any Virtualization programs such as Virtualbox? That seems to hit my CPU the hardest.

 

Yes, when I run VMware with a Windows 7 x86 VM, the CPU can go up to 130-140F (my main concern is the graphics hitting 170F or more, so I don't use it often).

Since you have Intel graphics, your CPU would be stressed more, but 190F is really bad.

 

Thanks. When I launch a Virtual Machine it hits 180F almost instantly, and then idles at 140F with a VM window open but no activity. If I launch a program within the VM it goes from 180F to ~193F. The temps were about the same even with an Nvidia card.

 

How much RAM do you have, and what OS VM are you running? What program are you getting the temperatures from?