Is my w3v defected? (too much heat)

I recently recieved a w3v and I love it. It's beautiful , but It feels really hot. After undervolting to 1.052 mobile mark shows 68 degrees celcius with the cpu under heavy load and 53 degrees celcius when idle. This is definitely too hot to put on my lap and even a little uncomfortable to type or keep the my mouse hand next to the vent. Are these temps normal? What temps are you guys getting on your w3v's?

Also, I cant seem to find the vertical sweet spot on my screen. When looking at light/white screens its okay but when I look at an all black screen no matter how I adjust the screen either the top or the bottom looks faded.

Is my laptop defective or is this normal?

 

i'm not undervolted, and i show 67 degrees C for just regular internet browsing

 

Wow, that's high. My 17" DTR is showing 46 degrees C.

 

That's because it's not a thin and light.

 

Flash I dont know what kind of dtr you have but i came across many in my life. A cool dtr at 46C? You must have ice packs under it. 58C at low load on the w3 is very normal. If you put it on your bed or any surface that coggs vents it may go up another 10C. These centrino laptops are made to go Hi. Normal opperating temp is about 60C give or take 10. 80C is Rare and under very hi load considering your temp is correct.

 

this is really interesting...i've read all about the heat issue but for myself, i don't experience much of it. I didn't do any undervolting or anything. I use it right outta the box and I internet surfed it and it runs at about 56-57 C
I played a movie and it ran 62-63 C ....

 

You dont find temperatures in the upper 50's and lower 60's to be uncomfortable, especially on the palm rest and next to the vent where your mouse hand is?

 

oh, also, what are your guys' ambient temps?
my room right now is 80F (26.6C)
probe showing 66C

 

MobileMeter is reading my low-load temperature at 51 degrees Celsius... ambient room temperature is around 25 degrees Celsius, I think. The hard drive is reading 41 degrees Celsius. I'm using RMClock to undervolt the CPU.

Under high load this can go up by 10-15 degrees celsius.

Even if the CPU is sitting at 60 degrees celsius, you are NOT going to be feeling anywhere near that on the keyboard... maybe ~30 - 40 degrees C, but nothing that should make you uncomfortable. Now, if you like to have your mouse so close to the exhaust that you're within 1" the entire time, then you're interfering with the exhaust, increasing the temperature, as well as unnecessarily exposing yourself to the heat.

I find the palmrest doesn't really get warm at all. Consider that the hard drive there (at least in mine) is only at 41 degrees... it's only too warm if I put my hand on the bottom side hard drive cover.

 

I personally base my temps and tests on ambient temps of 69F. At that temp you chould see about 58C on your w3 on normal load. Ofcourse if ambient temp goes up so will your core temps.

 

Looking at speedfan I see two different temps.
At iddle it is 60º ACPI Temp or 52º at asus probe.
I dont know what is more accurate, but I think it is the 60º as I notice the keyboard a lot more warm then at one month ago. And at one month ago, I have just the same 52º value, just that ACPI temp was near 50º as well.

 

How much functionality do you have using speedfan? Just manual control? Or can you set temperature and speed criteria for when the fan comes on?