Components running hot with little load?

I've recently noticed that at strange times, when I'm not doing much but browsing the web, my fans speed up to cool down the components. Makes sense if they're under load like a game or something, but when there's little to nothing happening, they shouldn't be that hot. I got SpeedFan to find out exactly what's going on, and I'm seeing that my GPU is sitting around 78 Celsius and my two CPU cores around 50 Celsius each, even right now when all I have open is Firefox and SpeedFan.

Naturally, this is worrisome a bit because excess heat may lead to irreparable damage to the components if I can't get them to cool down, but I have no idea why they're so hot in the first place. The computer sits on a normal computer desk pretty much all the time, at home it sits on a cooling fan system on a computer desk, nothing surrounding it to keep heat in or anything like that. No unnecessary background processes constantly running, no virus/malware infections causing anything. The outside of the entire computer appears to be dust free, nothing being clogged. As far as I can tell, there should be no reason for this excess heat.

Is there something else I may be missing that I should check?

 

Windows indexing files ... antivirus scanning .. defraging .. av updating ... shadowcopy ... can go on and on.
There are a lot of os components that doesn't even show up in taskmanager.

You can check out detailed memory and cpu usage map but with all the dll-s running couldn't make head or tail of it.

That is about the cpu

And

My .. gtx 260m gpu sitting around 55C atm in 22C room temp, single display mode in browsing.
78C idle seems high ... unless it never downclocks.
Check gpu-z and try Powermizer Switch or better nvidia powermizer manager ofc carefully.
As it downclocks 2 times can reach 48-50C idle.

 

Sounds like your GPU isn't downclocking. Also, it isn't heat that kills components, it's heat and electrical fluctuations that does.

 

Well, it seems the CPU has gone down in temperature to what SpeedFan says is "OK" (around 45 Celsius). Must have been something running that I missed.

However, the GPU still isn't going down. I downloaded both GPU-Z and the program "nVidia Powermizer Manager" to see if I can have my GPU downclock. However, I don't know what I'm looking for exactly to see what the problem is, and I have never actually done so in the past (honestly, this is the first time I've had this kind of problem). What should I look for and how should I make sure to properly manage this?

 

Driver issue.. i had this problem with older drivers on my Dv6.. try the below thing.. worked magically for me.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/gam...-rivatuner-better-powermizer-alternative.html..

works with 195.62 driver and 186.81... try it with yours..

Panther214

 

Well, my first guess would be a fan/cooling system that isn't working right. Make sure the fan isn't blocked, and think about re-doing the thermal paste/pads. The G51 series does have higher heat (due to a shared heatpipe for CPU and GPU), ... so does the GPU get really hot while gaming? If it tops out at 95C, that's about right for the g50/51/60 models.

 

I'll keep an eye on SpeedFan as I play games tonight, see how hot it gets. The internal fan does seem to work right, kicking in when the GPU gets hot (as it should). The external pad I bought with fans blowing upwards could be replaced as it is getting hold, which could help some more.

I just checked as I'm playing WoW, and the highest it reached is 103 Celsius. That's a bit much, and I really need to figure out how to get the downclock implemented before this gets worse...

 

the link in my above post does this... it downclocks the GPU... according to sean473 , it also undervolts it.

Panther214