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    Acer Aspire 8935G Temperature questions

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by XFice, Aug 22, 2011.

  1. XFice

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    I figured this would be the best section to post this, my laptop is Acer after all. Mods feel free to move the thread if needed.

    Hi!
    My laptop is an Acer 8935G (specs in the image below), and it runs all games I play smooth as silk. There is only one problem. It heats up like crazy.

    Now I don't know if this is common or something, but it has me worried as I use this laptop for my schoolwork and without it I'd be left way behind the rest of the class in terms of progression.

    Today I decided to test exactly HOW hot it got, and the results are found in http://i52.tinypic.com/28iqaec.jpg
    NOTE: These temperatures are WITH a cooling pad.

    What I noticed was that when the motherboard passed 75 C, the laptops fan sped up a little, but not enough to cool it down below 75 C.

    Also something I think is worth mentioning but not pictured is that when I used this little program that was made to test the stability of your overclocking, the motherboard fired up to 95 C, and then the fan kicked on higher speed lowering the temperature to the 80's. Of course after the temperature was lowered, the fan slowed down again resulting in the mobo heating up again.

    What I want to know is that if these temperatures are safe to play games on, or do I have to either A) give the laptop to our towns repair place or B) wait 2 years until I can play PC games again (as I have studies and after them army stuff, and after that I still have to find a decent paying job).

    Oh and please do NOT suggest me to open my laptop and clean the fans etc, as to be honest I'm SCARED of doing so. Opening and cleaning a desktop, sure but a laptop? No way. Just the pictures from the disassembly guide showed me enough for me to decide not to even try.

    Thank you in advance!

    EDIT: Forgot to mention that the laptop has frozen only once during it's lifetime, and it was that solid-color-flash thingy while playing WoW at least 6 months back.
     
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    downloads No, Dee Dee, no! Super Moderator

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    I'm not sure what mobo temperature is- there's nothing that measures temperature there that can be reliable- two parts that generate most heat are the CPU (yours is fine) and GPU- temperature not included on screenshots (use GPU-Z to measure it).

    If your GPU temp is finr than you can safely ignore mobo temperature whatever it is- this reading is different on different laptops and is not always true but you can be sure that mobo temp can't be higher than CPU and GPU.

    As for cleaning- use gas duster (compressed air) to clean out the vents without opening the laptop.
     
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    You can safely ignore it- CPU and GPU temperatures are fine and notebook is stable. Whatever it is (chipset temperature?) it doesn't seem dangerous at this point nor does it seem to affect performance.
     
  5. XFice

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    You can't believe how RELIEVED I AM right now, thank you so much!
    I guess I'll find my way to some of that compressed air, just in case ;)

    I seriously can't thank you enough for this, people as friendly as you make the world a better place to live.
     
  6. Zapperpower

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    temperatures are fine for a laptop, don't worry. It might get hot under it, and if really hot air is coming out, it's a good sign, that means the cooling system works properly (better when the heat is outside than inside ^^ )