Aspire 5530G High Idle Temps

Hi there,

This laptop i'm currently using is idling at around 64 degrees celsius.

I have replaced the thermal compound on the CPU and generally cleaned the inside of the laptop and the temps are no better.

The laptop is currently running Vista 64bit (which it came with), i am aware that vista isn't the best OS in the world, installing windows 7 didn't help neither (made it a ton worse, no power management broke my power supply).
I have removed all of the bloatware which is generally installed on the laptop and am running a lightweight AV (MSE).

The laptop is currently using an acer spare power pack which seems to work fine, doesn't get hot, moderately cool.

Does anyone have any ideas? I can't really think where to go from here.

Thanks,

Clum

Edit: Thought i should mention that the room temperature is really low (talking about ~10 degrees celsius).

 

Check if there are any processes that use up too much CPU- maybe it's not really idle.
Also make sure that you check out some other software like RealTemp or HWMonitor etc to get a second opinion on what the temperature actually is.
Does the laptop get uncomfortably warm?

EDIT: ~10*C? Come on it's impossible unless you live in a freezer

 

Using HWMonitor to monitor the temps.
The highest process is using 15MB of memory and the highest process in terms of CPU usage is 05.
Yes, extremely uncomfortable, the fan is on very loud.

I live in Scotland, that's a high temp for me!

 

Check RealTemp or something else. What CPU does it use?
Also- are you sure that you've applied thermal compound correctly?
Is it set to "balanced" power profile or set to max performance?
Make sure that the CPU can downclock when not under heavy load (advanced settings of a power profile)

It's warmer than that in Scotland- 18*C outside

 

RealTemp doesn't work, i'm using an AMD Turion X2 processor.
It's set to balanced.
Can't find settings about downclock
As for the thermal compound, i am, i made sure to even spread it across the cpu and to use a moderate amount.

 

Based on my experience, the best way of applying compound is to put a drop in the middle of the CPU then put the heatsink on it. This way, the compound will fill the gap by itself. Spreading the compound manually is based on the assumption that both surfaces are completely flat and mate perfectly, but this is often not the case no matter how flat they look. Also, clean both surfaces with alcohol, or better yet, acetone (but you have to be careful). There is no need for some fancy compound, the generic white compound will do.

 

check if you have a background service or program running, mine was like that until i found out i had a windows share service that used 50% of cpu usage.