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    Received replacement M1530.. gets very hot

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by roland_j, Sep 9, 2008.

  1. roland_j

    roland_j Notebook Consultant

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    Well I received my first M1530 last week and it had a few problems, mainly the LED had very bad lighting that was immediately noticable and defective, also the keyboard had a hump and the remote wouldnt come out. So they decided it had to be replaced.

    Received new one today - all the problems are not on this one.. except its BLAZING hot. I overclocked the other one to 610/800 and the GPU never went above 75C when playing Bioshock or running 3dMark. This one is stock and it went up to 85C! The other one stock would only go up to 70C.. now I dont know what to say but this is a problem for me because it seems so much warmer.

    Also the other one has a Western Digital and this one has a Samsung 250GB harddrives.. Ive performed HDTune on both and the WD has 17ms access and Samsung has 20ms access...

    THe point is, anyone have advice? Its so strange the high temps..
     
    roland_j, Sep 9, 2008
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    fonduekid JSUTAONHTERBIRCKINTEHWLAL

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    Those temp' are *high*... call up dell tech ASAP and tell them this issue with the replacement system you got.. they got to fix this one... See what they say.
     
    fonduekid, Sep 9, 2008
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