New M11X r2 in the house. Are my temps high?

Hey everyone, Just got my frirst Alienware product, a M11x r2, i7 in Lunar shadow.

Anyways to cut to the chase, I'm a pretty big desktop user, I overclock my PC like crazy and have TRI SLI gtx 480's. Point being...I'm new to lappys. I don't know what the "guidelines" are for cooling. I'm use watercooling and having my proc run @ 75-80 degrees @ 4.2 GHZ.

I just got the M11x and after playing games on stock settings for an hour, with the CPU throttling around 2 GHZ my temps around idle and minimal load is 45-55 degrees and the GPU never going above 40-45. @ LOAD though after playing a game for 30 minutes that changes to 75 degrees on the CPU and 67 on the GPU. Now these numbers are pretty small for chips but I see alot of people saying this area is too much for a lappy, is that correct?

It's mildly warm here in Vancouver around 22-24 degrees inside my house and I have it resting on my desk (no gap).

Other than that I'm loving the unit. I think there is one design flaw and that is that on the back where the power supply plugs in, about 2-3 cm to the left are the holes for the heatsink and it's very easy to mistakenly try to plug the power into the heatsink which can lead to abrasing the heatsink fins which isn't a big deal and you can always kind of bend them back if something happens.

 

I have an R1, but I hear for an R2 at full load those are very normal temps.

Other design flaws are weak hinges and the laptop sits too flat to the table. Not really a way to fix the hinges, but the other issue is an easy remedy. Just raise the back part of the laptop when gaming (i.e. with a pencil) and you should get a nice temperature drop.

 

I've never seen my cpu at 75, and my gpu rarely gets that hot with the back end lifted. Both my cpu and gpu are overclocked.

Running prime95 right now and my cpu is hovering around 40c (<43c) after 10 minutes of 100% utilization. Note that one processor runs about 5c hotter and i'm listing the higher of the two.

 

The only way I reached 67 C on CPU was when my room temperature was around 33 C and was playing a game.

I have a different CPU so probably not comparable, but I haven't seen it go higher than 65 C (full load).

 

The fan turns on when the CPU hits 55*C and off at 45*C, so, yes, that's the range it's going to be at minimum load.

The processor is rated to get to 104*C before shutting off to prevent damage, so your upper number of 75*C is plenty within range.