Is My Notebook Way Too Hot?

I've always thought my notebook gets too hot. Now I've found a way to find out how hot it really is. Here are the results in a image link. What do you guys think?

 

Thats WAY too hot. Make sure your vents are not blocked. If they aren't, they cooling system isn't doing its job.

 

No vents are blocked whatsoever. It's been like this forever. What is the normal temps.?

 

Is that at load or at idle? If it's at load, the CPU temps are okay. If it's at idle, they should be lower - somewhere below 55C at least. My CPU gets that hot at idle - but only when I've turned all the fans off. With the fans working, that's way too hot at idle. But those temperatures won't torch the CPU (you need 95 or above to risk that) - it's just that if those are idle temps then load temps may well be in the danger zone.

But of greater concern is the hard drive temperature. 59C is way too hot for a hard drive, regardless of whether it's at load or idle. Most hard drives are specified to run at up to 55C, and after 55C you're asking for hard drive. You really want the hard drive to stay at or below 45C, although I wouldn't worry so long as it's below 50C (and I don't worry about an old hard drive I have that runs at 55-56, but it's been doing that for half a decade - if I didn't know it ran okay that hot I'd be concerned).

 

When did you last clean out the laptop for dust and debris?

 

Those temperatures were taken when I was just surfing the internet. As for cleaning it out for dust and debris, don't think I've ever done that. How should I do it?

 

That's hot? Then I guess my Acer Ferrari was near combustion...

Before I undervolted that (Turion 64 ML-37 I think) it was reaching 100*C and was doing a themal shutdown, I undervolted and it went to 75-80*C under load.

Now, if that's idle temps, then that's oh, 20*C too hot.

Greg

 

Use a can of compressed air (you can buy this at an electronic or photography store) to dislodge dust that is caked around the fan blades and onto the heat sink; then apply a powerful vacuum cleaner nozzle directly to the fan grille to suck out the dislodged dust. I imagine that you'll find quite a bit of dust and dirt in there.

If this doesn't bring the temps down enough, there are other things that you can do as well.

- prop the back end of the computer against a book for better airflow (laptop intake fans usually suck in air from the bottom)

- buy a notebook cooling pad

- undervolt the CPU to consume less power and therefore run cooler (for intermediate users)

- apply higher-quality thermal compound for better heat transfer between the computer components and the heatsink (usually easy, but models where the heatsink is difficult to access are more challenging)

 

I've been planning on buying a new notebook for a long time. Is it safe to say that all new laptops will be running cooler than this? I can't even put this on my lap it's so how. It's always on a desk.

 

Heat is always a problem for laptops, even new ones. The best thing you can do is buy one with parts that tend to run cooler, namely the CPU and GPU. Unfortunately a Core 2 / ATI graphics configuration isn't very common.