Vostro 3500 Severe Heat Issue

i5 430m 2.26ghz
nvidia 310M

When I run furmark and prime 95, within a COUPLE minutes, the temperature of gpu reaches 95 and cpu ends up throttling to 1.2ghz or so.

when I just run furmark, the temp is about 87 or so in 5 minutes.

It appears that the heat sink it ridiculously small, therefore overheating. I updated the bios to A10, but nothing really changed...

Any one know fix for this??? This means that i cannot run my system in great performance for a long time at all... HELP

 

My Inspiron has the same problem. I'm thinking about dousing the cpu in grease

 

the thing is, the gpu and the heat sink is in contact with somekind of heat PAD, instead of normal thermal GREASE like arctic silver. I am not sure if such PAD generally have worse conducting of heat than grease, but it sure isnt doing its job... Because the pad actually has a bit of thickness to it, i am afraid to remove it and replace with thermal grease, which doesnt have any thickness, thus not in contact with the heat sink.

any of you think its a good idea to try this however? or should i at least put arctic silver in between gpu and the heat sink?? any other ideas?

 

If one heatsink is serving both CPU and GPU then Dell usually provides a thermal pad on one of the components to make provision for the two components being cooled being of slightly different heights. An alternative is the copper mod.

John

 

so then is this thermal pad as good as thermal grease?? in terms of transfering heat i mean.... apparently something is wrong i guesss. I even doubt that dell would release the product knowing such heat issue...

 

A thermal pad is better than a thick layer of grease. Thermal grease should be applied as a very thin layer.

John

 

Not a surprise, since the Vostro 3x00 seems to run hot with heavy processor loads. Probably a very acceptable system for small businesses that only use a few lightweight office applications.


My advice is to send it back and get an E6510.