Safe GPU Temp?

Temperature 56°C (132°F) (GPU Core)

Sometimes this goes up to 67 degrees C

Is that ok when i am gaming?

 

it is: i've gone to 70 Celsius and still playable

 

67 c could be less but of course it is okay. Yours is an m11xR2 I presume?

 

Yep.

I'm playing Rift atm and just noticed earlier it was at 67, but that was after installed new beta drivers so gone back to normal.

 

anything below 85C is alright, if it gets higher then that, think about new thermal paste or a cooling pad.

 

You only need to be concerned about the temperature if you notice throttling, since throttling is a symptom of overheating. In other words, if it doesn't throttle, then it isn't overheating, therefore you're ok.

 

Windows Live Gallery

if you want to monitor your GPU temp via the widget.

using it right now actually and it recognises the gpu.

 

If you're going to game, you really should get an active cooler that ducts cool air into the inlet grill on the bottom left of the m11x. It will pay off in the long run. I run a custom unit I built myself and in Rift 'rift' gang fights, running both cpu and gpu overclocked with the meters pegged, my gpu is doing mid 40's on my R1.
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he will be just fine if his temps stay under 85C, he shouldnt need a cooler unless they go higher then that. i have an R1 and have never gone above 62C under load, even with my massive overclocks.

 

ajslay, unless you've done a volt mod, there won't be a huge increase in temps on the m11x from your overclocks. That said, your 62C at full tilt is admirable. On the other hand, as I've posted elsewhere, high temps are best avoided if at all possible as they only act to hasten the degradation of the mboard and its components. Its not just the cpu and gpu that deteriorate. Board components such as capacitors, mem chips, not to mention the seldom cooled system chips and a host of others are adversely affected over time. There is a reason why corporate level 'big iron' more often than not, runs in a climate controlled clean room.

Further, the larger the difference between idle and max op temps the more 'flexing' of all the soldered connections in a computer will occur. These temperature cycles act very much like bending a piece of wire back and forth, in effect work hardening it, until it breaks. The more the soldered joint crystallizes due to this temperature induced 'flexing' the more intermittent errors will occur until finally one or more connections are broken and your mboard will be due for replacement or a very tedious attempt at repair.

Unless someone has opted for a multi-year replacement warranty, or plans on only keeping the m11x a short time, anything you can do to lower temps within reason, will over time, dramatically extend the life of your laptop-especially when substantially overclocked as excess heat contributes quite a bit to electron migration which overtime degrades your components. I've known a lot of benchmark modder's who work out an initially stable overclock only to find some months later, that its becoming more and more unstable. Tho the effect is universal, it can be dramatically postponed by sufficient cooling. Coolers are thus a necessary but fortunately cheap component of ALL high performance computers, and especially so for performance laptops. There are very few stock units whose temps cannot be dramatically improved with an appropriate cooler. At present, none come instantly to mind

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i have a 10 year old pentium 3 laptop thats still kicking and its always in the high 80's when under full load, laptops are designed with heat in mind, i havent had any computers die because of a heat issue, BUT, if you really need a cooler use it... if you need it something might be wrong, first thing id check is thermal paste.

and i know my temps wont increase much on stock voltage, but it went up about 3C from stock. not bad

 

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sounds about right. You apparently got a really good one

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yep i did, pretty darn happy with it, but i also have it pinmodded.

 

71C is the highest I have ever reached. Never put your M11X on your Lap, it gave me a burn. @OP That's an alright degree.

 

haha that sucks, mine at the highest temp i can get it to is slightly warm and isnt unbearable on my lap, it doesnt burn the "guys" hahah.

 

Those temps are ok, while gaming my temps can go up to 82-83+. That is with the m17x though.