1330 Temperature - When is it too much

I recently got my heatsink + motherboard replaced and noticed drastic improvements with my temperatures. My GPU is now idling at 60-65 C and when I am playing a game (Warhammer Online or Lord of the rings online) it is at 95-100 C.

Is that too hot and should I stop playing to risk damaging the video card?

Or is it fine? I can hear the fan going and I feel the hot air being blown out of the vent and cold air being sucked into the fan.

Thanks

 

well, 95-100 C *is* too hot, even when gaming... are you sure you aren't blocking any vents? Try using the laptop a bit elevated, to enable more air flow beneath....

 

Using a 9 cell battery, not sure what else I am supposed to do.

Any ideas?

 

well... since u said u just got your heatsink+mobo replaced, I guess you would have made sure the vent' and fan' were clean as well, before putting everything back.. if not you could try that..

So, I don't have any idea either.. Btw, what are you using to measure the temp'? HWmonitor or something else? In any case, those temp' look way too high...

 

The technician installed a new mobo + heatsink. Mobo is at rev A06, Bios A12. heatsink looked new and flashy too. i am using Rivatuner to check temperatures. Let me try HWMonitor.

What temps do you get on your 1530?

 

I get 91 degrees C playing Spore, or streaming videos via HDMI out. Spore at mid/max graphics for almost everything I peaked at 93 but usually stays around high 80s low 90s. I have my laptop on a cooler also. I just recently blew out my vents with compressed air. Idle temp went down about 1 degree to 59 or 58 degrees C. This is for the 1330 with 8400gs.

 

Your temps are normal (although high) for an 8400m gs in an M1330.

Try out the 'copper mod' (search for it in this forum). It reduced my GPU load temp from 94 degrees C to no more than 73.

Idle was reduced from 65 to around 55.

 

I have 3 years complete care on this laptop left. I don't want to void the warranty Thanks for the suggestion though.

Also, I tried going into rivatuner and setting the fan to be 100%....but it's not quite 100%, not sure what's going on there.

Last thing: Is it possible to setup the fan so that it is always at 100%? I am not concerned about power consumption since the laptop is stationary all the time.

Thanks

 

I'm glade you made the original post. My m1330 4gig of ram 2.2 GHz 8400m Gpu. I also had MB replaced due to GPU failing, so now I check my temp all the time. My system idels at 51c with i8kfangui31 and 65c with HWMonitor. I don't know why two different programs reading same GPU info. give different readings. When I ran Combat Arms ononline GPU temp shot up to 100c. Wish I knew for a fact what were normal op. temps.