XPS 13 Ultrabook Temperature

hello everyone, can anyone please tell me if you got same temps as i have on my new xps 13?

i have in idle 54C/65C

and full load on gaming 85C

i belive this machine have to run more cool, but i dont know, what do you think about those temperatures? i dont have any bad performance with the laptop even in gaming, just a little worried about it because i saw in some reviews this laptop runs on idle like 40C and gaming 65 maybe 70C.

 

That depends on what game your playing and if you had anything in background during idle time. In addition might I add updating to the third bios update if you haven't.

 

in idle there is not much, web surfing normal tasks, and gaming diablo 3 in everything on low. so what you think? about the bios, came from factory a04. a lot of people say the fan noise is very loud i never hear it.

 

Honestly you are safe at 85C. It sounds hot, and it obviously is, but it is well with the safe zone. \As for published temps and variances in temps remember ambient temperature of the room you are in makes a HUGE difference in what the system runs at.

What I would recommend is when you are doing something as intensive as gaming either sitting it on a cooling pad designed for laptops or go the cheap way and put 4 coke bottle lids under the corners of this thing if it is sitting on a desk or table. There is quite a bit of power in a very small area. Running it hard is going to create heat and the best way to make it dissipate faster is to make it easier on the airflow.

I have a gaming laptop that is designed for gaming and has more fans than you can think of and the video card runs at 90C. Laptop components are in general designed to withstand higher temps. However that does not mean it is not a good idea to lower the temps if possible. By doing some sort of raising of the XPS 13 you can see upwards of 5C come off that temp.

 

i see thanks for your time to awnser my question, what i dont understand is in some reviewz they say the regular temps in idle is like 44c and in loud temps is like 65/70 i hv 65 in idle. dont know if this situation will reduce lifetime o my ultrabook. because ia not on the normal range for this model. i would like to know if other uaers have the same range of temps or is lower than mine.

 

May depend on the BIOS they were running at the time. I got mine on the first available day. The temps and fans are much different now than they were then. Honestly you should be fine with the idle and high temps during game play.

 

I would think Diablo 3 has a part to play since its a ridiculously intensive game to ask for the integrated graphics to play. Besides this what clintre said is right. I had the same problem with my dell studio 1558 and once I cleaned the fan and exhaust through a dust buster, raised the laptop a bit as well limited the processor speed and disabled some windows services and processes it runs much better/cooler. Additionally remember this: laptops these days are designed to withstand up to 100 degrees if I am not mistaken?

 

Generally speaking up to 105c which is, wow hot.

 

lol that is wow hot but I meant to the OP that not to worry too much about since its below that. Just follow what we two said it should drop to nicer temperatures. Additionally remember this: unlike other laptops these ultrabook have quite a compact chassis that doesn't allow for much room which will mean they will get hot-bear that in mind.

 

Well, Thank you guys, beside the graphic power i love my new xps 13, so sexy and fast xD i sold my xps 15 for this one.. ^^

 

Don't forget the surface it is on. If you have it on your lap or something that reflects heat or blocks the vents, it will get very hot.

As for design specs around temp - i doubt 105C - Enterprise grade NAND devices are rarely designed to exceed 100C. They don't fail, but they will shut down.

Hard drives shut down well below that. I would guess some onboard chips may be rated at 85C - but they could be higher.

That could be part of the cost of the ultrabook - paying for higher temp components.

 

I'd partially blame it on Dell's dodgy paste jobs.

The CPU on my XPS 17 would frequently hit 95c. After repasting it myself with MX-4, it now maxes out at 78c.

 

Hey guys. I'm running an Acer Aspire S3 with an i5, 4gbs of memory and a 5400rpm HDD. I'm running torchlight 2 at 1366x768, and i frequently run 2 eve clients. I'm planning on testing with other games too.

I would sometimes get 75C or even 80C temps but I would quite the games in order not to risk damaging anything.

My method to deal with ultrabook heat is to run my games on power saver mode which greatly reduces cpu heat output. Torchlight and eve still run well even at a reduced cpu clock rate.

But still my games ran at a constant 70c (eve) and torchlight 2 was pushing it to almost 80c even on powersaver mode.

To fix this I went into the advanced power options menu in windows and under Processor power management i reduced the maximum processor state to 50% for both plugged in and on battery.
I only did this for power saver mode so if I want unrestricted cpu output i can just switch to balance or high performance.

I have torchlight 2 running in teh background while I type this and my cpu temp is a stable 56c

Im not sure how this will work with other games but if needed you could always increase the processing power and still maintain relatively low temps for an ultrabook.

 

Wrong forum and thread. This forum is for Dell XPS notebooks, and this thread is specifically about the XPS 13. You'll have better luck here.

 

The CPU on my i7 XPS 13 usually sits between 50C and 65C. But yeah, gaming rapidly sends it upwards of 80!