Asus C90 Temps?

I'd like to settle what is supposed to be a normal temp for the cpu and gpu
on the c90.

If someone knows, please post it here.

Mine runs 70-72c no over clocking. I believe I read this was normal.

 

Ok, mine in standard mode and room temperature works at 71-72 oC for cpu
and 80-83 oC for GPU

Let me said that it seems people didnt really tested the real temps for cpu and gpu in standard mode at room temperature. SOme claims that their cpus run at 53-58 which is not true at all since I registered my c90 in ASUS site, I ve been contating support and indeed the cpu for the 2.66 Ghz goes well over the 70 on this conditions. the ceramique just give you tops 3 oC less no more and HD 7200 rpm doesnt give any difference on the cpu & gpu temps.

 

I see.. I should go register on their site too.. I guess I shouldn't be too worried then?

 

depends on your cpu. If you have the E6700 (2.66) that is ok. With air conditioning it will go down to 64-66 0C

 

E6600 <-- is what i have.

 

I think is ok as long doesnt go beyond 75 oC and it also depends on your room temp plus dont forget to always keep free the way of air into your fan. You would be amaze how different would be the temperature of a c90s on the bed, on your lap (dont recommend this one) and one on the desk...

 

If without oc you are getting 70-72 degrees at idle, it isn't a huge deal. But if it bothers you, you may want to change your ceramic paste to AS5 (arctic silver 5 thermal paste).
I have an e6600 with AS5 and my current temp and as I'm typing this are 55 and 56 degrees.

 

Same my idle on e6600 is 53-57 degrees.

 

I paid the extra 5$ for gentech to use thermal silver instead of the white junk.

What is everyone else using to detect temps?

Btw speedfan can't control any fans on my c90.

I'm just worried I might damage something with these temps..

 

Hello Corzama. When my C90S arrives I am going to run some tests to try and clear up what these laptops are really generating. I will use a combination of software monitors, a remote analogue temp probe to place at various locations (cpu,gpu,ambient,etc.)and a 1 degree spotmeter. I will run the same tests at load and idle, first with my unit as it's received, then I will apply some of the latest "diamond particle" compound I purchased which is beating even AS5 and it is non-conductive! I realize a lot of people are concerned so I will try and run the tests as soon as I can squeeze the time

 

Read the full content of this Article: http://www.dev.notebookreview.com/news/acer-z3-hands-on-preview-acers-home-theater-aio/

 

i've never heard of a water cooled laptop.. but that would be something =)

 

Ok, temp I was talking about were from the bios temp check and fan rpm check. By using speedfan, rivatunner, & Core Temp I get as follow in standard mode:


HD: 45-50 oC
System: 30-35 oC
Core0: 50-55 oC
Core1: 50-55 oC
Core: 70-75 oC (this should be the temp we get from th bios which is not the actual cpu core)
Ambient: 31 oC

My cpu is E6700 2.66, HD 200GB 7200 rpm, corsair 1+1 gb 667...

my apologies to Forerunner since I guess his temp reading where from software and not from the bios as I was doing my first times

ON another note, Im running modified XP pro (UE) & linux edubuntu. Im having problem with my video which it does record but you see a black screen but when you play it in window mode, it shows the recorded video fine, any ideas why and what cotroller version should I use with XP????

 

Water cooled notebooks aren't new actually.
http://www.nec.co.jp/press/en/0306/3001.html
http://www.geek.com/hitachis-water-cooled-p4-notebook/
http://www.uberpulse.com/us/2007/05/hp_to_launch_watercooled_fanless_laptop_in_fall.php

 

I already posted this in C90 thread, but it's over 50 pages long and this seems more appropriate place for my troubles. As I see from here I just didn't have luck with my order, since I am getting extreme temperatures.. Here is the story:

Yesterday I finally got The C90s! I fckd up vista installation in 20 minutes (everything was working fine) and then i set up XP.. and gave it an ultimate test -> invited some friends for a gaming session.. but in 20 minutes i got a BSOD.. checked out temperatures and whoa.. gpu temperature was on 102 C!!!

Then I remembered, there were these driver settings -> laptop mode and don't conserve my battery. I put the settings back to laptop mode and entered the game again. Only for 20 mins.. BlackSOD again. Then I lifted the C90s from the table, so it had space beneath and there were no lock-ups again, but the temperature remained at 100 or more in games with no gaming/overclock mode on. CPU is 69 and GPU is around there when not gaming.

The card is 8600 GT 512 DDR2. Is it faulty? Judging by the comments on the forum I have a real problem here

But the performance is marvellous..


P.s. I am running original drivers that came with C90s.. (march release)

 

I just checked mine with Everest, and apparently at idle my CPU is at 28 C and my HD is at 44 C.

 

on the c90s? 28C seems low to me, like on a desktop cooling system.

For me, in power saving mode, GPU idles at 80-83 and CPU (from bios) is 60-64C.

I don't know about the HDD but after a windows install + many files transfer without cooling down, the touchpad becomes unusable since it's too hot.

I will check tonigh or tomorrow.

 

Same here for CPU, for GPU idle usually 77 C (with Lapcool2 on) with spikes to 83-84C....this is NOT gaming in standard mode

BTW, anyone successully using RMClock?

 

Nope. So zoid hows the gddr3 going? What games are you playing?

 

The bad thing about the c90 with temps comparisons is that the fans are kind of random.

Your bios version will change how they behave, and your cpu temps will aswell.

Its totally possible to have a hotter cpu then the next person but your temps be LOWER just because its hot enough to trip the fans into the next cooling level while the other persons is borderline.

For the record tho I can idle in low 50's with the cpu after replacing the stock TIM on the cpu with a metal pad (better than AS5 from my use of it so far) and updating bios to the newest v801. The gpu is very random from high 70's to mid 80's idle.

 

Its mostly triggered by the cpu which makes sense since it does produce more heat but what programs are there that mainly just give the gpu a workout? I mean it has to take the gpu into account but the cpu will always heat up alot faster than the gpu in most tasks. THough the issue pops up about the levels of fan cooling. What if the fans turn on for the cpu heat up first but eventually the gpu gets alot hotter since the task is more gpu intensive that may be one of the reasons peoples gpus get so hot.

Also I need my c90 crew to represent us in my review (link is below.) Check it out guys, I'll aprreciate feeedback, critiques, etc. Vicious I know your looking forward to portal.

 

GPU is hovering around mid 70's (72 atm) at idle, CPU is low to mid 50's in standard mode. Not too much more in OC mode.

@Forerunner ran a bit of 2142 and DoW and both ran real nicely maxed out DoW at Native and 2142 just a touch under native & 2xAA. I think I'm going to install Quake ET and see how it fares, anyone game in particular you want to see?

 

What I'd really like to see how the orange box fares on your system. It is the game I am and will be playing the most for a while now. I will post benchies of all the games in my reviews but it would be interesting to see how many more settings the ddr3 can go higher and get similar results. In half life 2 ep 1 I got 38 avg at 1680 x 1050, 2 aa, v-sync, everything high. In team fortress probably similar results. Now team fortress has an ultra high texture settings which I can't run at keeping everyting else the same. It would be interesting to see how gddr3 fares.

I don;t own any of the games you mentioned to have a relatable comparison.

 

Okay got a cooling pad, a Thermaltake R15PF01, nothing special but fairly small and had the fans exactly where I wanted to test them, I'll be opting for an aluminum model shortly, but 14 beans and free shipping for variable speed fan is fine for me.

As for temps, my GPU at idle in standard mode is now at 65, Cpu seems to be around the same, low to mid 50's. Power saving mode shaves both figures down to approx 55 and 50, Actually have been seeing the Cpu dropping to 45, cores (41/43) at night.

I'll cover my "GPU holes" and see how much of a difference they make in a bit.

Short bench with max 85 GPU temp.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=170318&page=25

 

right now core 1 is at 47C & Core 2 at 53C. GPU is at 83, power saving mode since boot up 30 minutes ago

I think I'll put thermal past later tonight

 

GalCivII Dark Avatar a lot. I still need to put on HL2/CSS and a couple others...I've been eyeing Supreme Commander lately in the store

 

I jut did a 3dmar 06


GPU hit 105C (fans weweren't working though) and CPUs hit 70 & 72

Scores was 2996 with a E4500 stock

 

So is this normal then for my beast to get so angrily hot..?

My temps without cooling pad:
Normal operation 52C for CPU and 83 for GPU, rayman raving rabbids 70C CPU and 98-102 GPU

What are the temperatures for your power adaptor then.. I think my will serve well this winter as a spare radiator 8)

 

Yesterday I got a new cooling pad and now everything is fine. Got to do more precise measurements, but now the CPU is below 50C and GPU below 80C under normal conditions and under stress the CPU rises to 70C and GPU near 90C.

I love the C90!!

 

but how the hell are people having it to 70!!!!!??? That my idle when the fans are running almost at full speed

 

If CPU is 70 the fans go at full speed yes..

Anyhow, I narrowed down the problem I had and it sounds unbelievable and to think I installed windowze 6 times before I figured this out.. Seems that the directx that came with Bioshock was causing all the problems and lock-ups.. that was the only thing I installed everytime, till I figured out that this may be the cause of my problems. For now everything works O.K.

And a cooling pad is a must for this laptop to have normal temperatures.. CPU is lingering now at 50-52 C and the GPU is at sexy 69 C

 

My temps. are at idle 55c-60c, and when i played AoE 3 yesterday in standard mode, the temp was 65c i think. When i was running 3DMark 06 in overclock mode, the temp. was 70c or something. The highest temp so far!

 

Just sent my C90 back for repairs.. seems it wasn't the faulty DirectX at all.. but there is something wrong with the nvidia card.. the 3D mode is totally broken and is working for 5 minutes in vista or sporadically in XP.. Now i have to wait for 14 days to get it fixed

Hope they will at least change the 8600M DDR2 with the DDR3 for a minimum payment..

 

I'm talking about the graphics card. My idle at normal speed is 88C. Load under a E4500 intensive game is 95. Guild Wars runs at like 112C

 

umm... holy crap...my P4 on my desktop never got that high! i think that you need to tone it down a bit or something... 112c is pretty damn high, like under 80-85c is all right but 112 is certaintly pushing it... i do know that the conroe handles heat well, but thats not a conroe and im not sure what the max safe temp would be

 

yep that is high. what drivers do you have installed?

 

I tried like 10, drivers do not change anything to the heat. Heat is hardware related. I'm just really frustrated over how he fans act in single-cored games

Again, I'm speakin about the graphics card, the E4500 safe temp is 73.3C, the fans work to keep it under 72 under load... (72 is the highest I hit on it, idle is about 50-55)

But how the hell do some have they 8600M GT DDR2 at 70-75 without cooler or anything!!!? I'd send it to Asus right now but my dad will just be mad

 

My gpu is 65 right now as I am typig this. It has clocked itseld down to 275/200 when it standard clock I idle around 69-70.

 

Damnit, mine is 83 at 275/200 and 85-88 at 475....

You got no mod????

I can't even know if it's my c90s or just my video card....

 

No its just my replacement c90. I opened it a few times and didnt notice anything different. The old one had something was definitely defective.

 

>.> my 8600 w/ gddr3, plus a laptop cooler, plus a fan blowing over my keyboard is at 76 idle...is that normal?

 

I think it is somewhat normal.. I am still waiting for my C90 to come back, but without the lapcooler the temps for GPU were around 80 C.. with it it they were at sexy 69 C and under heavy load at 92 C... whilst without cooler they were hitting 102 C...

 

My harddrive is around 55C a lot of the time, a 100GB 7200 rpm. Should I be concerned with this?

 

55C for hard drive is extremely high, my hard disk usually gets 33-35C, if defraging then could reach max 42C but never higher.

 

I'm at 54C on a 160GB 5400RPM

 

mine was 55c the other day. I would imagine its cooler most of the time, also using the 169.01 drivers will lower temps im sure since the gpu will be dumping less heat into the system when idle.

Im about to toss the 512mb card back in later to do some test with the new drivers and see what kind of scores I get with a mild overclock.

I am probably going to keep my 512mb card and not upgrade to the GDDR3 card with 256mb. I may also put my 2gb stick of ram back in and see if my performance goes up with 3gb system ram instead of 2gb. I just lose my ability to run battery mode (I have not used batttery mode in over a month now so I think I will be ok with it)