M17x R3 running hot??

Guys, yesterday I decided to swap out my vertex 3 120gb to a 480gb one. After I cloned the ssd using ghost, I opened up the back and took out the ssd.

This is what I found.






Looks like something ran really really hot there and slightly melted the OCZ label as well as the "HDD Module 1" sticker inside the bay.

Can anyone say something about this? Normal? Panic?

I was playing crysis 2 off this disk, on a flat surface, about 1-2 hours a day for the past 6 days. Wasn't using a laptop cooler... just on a desk.

BTW, the ssd is working fine as far as I can tell. No blue screens etc. Although I noticed that once in a while, the game lagged very badly for about 5 seconds after playing for about an hour. After a few seconds, things would return to normal. Dunno if it had anything to do with it or not. Anyone know if SSDs throttle down as well?

 

Unless I'm reading the technical specs wrong, the SSD has a 0-70C operating temperature. I'd say that's higher than 70C~

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ocz-vertex-3-sata-iii-2-5-ssd.html

 

Judging by your heatsink and the arrangement of the chips on there, you have a 580m. That throttling was your GPU which is normal, plenty of threads discussing this. Shouldn't have anything to do with your SSD.

However that doesn't explain the heat patch and it does seem slightly strange. Are you sure it originates from the SSD and not coming through from the other side?

 

Anyone have any idea what IS on the other side?

I have put a sheet of paper between that and the new drive.

 

i wouldn't attempt to isolate the drive with any other material....i'd say ring up Dell....

you never know, they might've forgotten to put insulation pads under the HSF, or something like that,....but that is a lot of heat.......i wouldnt be game to let it go like this

 

Dell Tech came over just now and replaced the mobo (again!). Right behind the heat spot, there were some chips (no idea what they are for) and one of them had melted its plastic sticker to the point where the melted part separated from the rest of it when we tried to peel it off. Will open up again in a couple of days to check if the behaviour repeats itself with the new mobo.

Can anyone else with an R3 just take a look under slot 1 to see if you guys have any heat spots? If none of you have it, then hopefully its a one off thing. If some of you have it, then its going to be a long drawn out thing like the sata 2/3 on slot 0 thingy...

 

I hope I dont pull my drive out one day and see this >< My SSD doesn't have a temperature sensor so I have no idea how hot it's getting under there. Mine is also in SATA 1 port. That 6990M heatsink sits right up against the drive cage tho, so I wonder if that area of the laptop is just way too hot in general?

 

Mega, i just checked mine and its fine so this isn't normal

 

Melting parts are not good at all, and its not normal. Get that fixed, if it hasent allready been fixed by changing the mobo..

Something in my R1 melted once aswell, destroyed all the ports on the left side..




Good luck!
- Scott.