Dell XPS M1330 too hot & loud

I'm considering selling my laptop for the simply fact the laptop doesnt run anyone near close to silent that I need.

What tempted me towards Dell in the first place was the quietness offered by the Inspiron line.

I love everything about the XPS M1330 but I can't bear the 66c+ GPU idle temps and the fan speed that goes with it. Also I am worried that this will cause a sharp decrease in the laptop's life.

It seems the excessive temps + fan noise on the XPS M1330 is an exception in the notebook world. My friend's laptops arent nearly as loud as mine.

What's going on here?

 

Hot: Certainly.
Noisy: Not by a long shot...Is the fan whiny?

 

Agree. I haven't noticed much fan noise from my friend's M1330 at all, and she brings it to our meetings all the time.

 

The 8400 is certainly hot but the laptop is extremely quiet.

 

As I said, if the fan is making a screeching or whiny noise, you'd need to have the heatsink assembly replaced... Happened to me once.. approx 6 months after i bought it...

 

I just have a very low tolerance level. The lowest fan level on this is clearly audiable (still quiet in general terms) whilst other laptops I find this level to be near-silent.

 

A friend uses her 1330 for accounting,music,videos and browsing.
Never have I heard her say the fans are noisy.
I`d consider calling Dell about it,the fan might be defective.
About heat issues, read the link in my sig about ways to cool down the laptop.

 

If you want +- 10°C cooler idle temps (no change to the lowest fan setting always on though), you'd have to download the 167.45 drivers from www.laptopvideo2go.com and install them with either the original inf or the modded one. This is a safe way to ensure lower temps and the driver is compatible with the m1330.

 

No, on the lowest it's far quieter than any other I've heard.

 

Tried undervolting your proc, and underclocking your graphics card? At an ambient temp of 26 or lower, the fans rarely come on in my notebook, unless it's under load...

 

Right I've switched the fans off through i8kfan (surprisingly temps not that bad), and still I can hear it. My brothers Inspiron I can't hear at all.

CPU ~66c
GPU ~80c

Safe to keep like this?

 

Thanks for all your posts. I will try underclocking later. Also I noticed that with the newer drivers (increase in temps) so I'm running 156.83 directly from Dell.

 

Are you sure what you are hearing is not the CPU whine..?

And the temps are a bit high..

 

No whine. Maybe its the 7200 RPM drive I have?

Do you hear anything when you turn off the fans in yours?

I'm now contemplating selling this on and looking to buy something else - which is a real shame, but I need something close to silent (like most laptops I've encountered)

 

Looks a little high, but still not extremely dangerous.
Look at the link in my sig to learn about ways to lower the temperatures.

 

80C is what you want to see after hours of gaming. Nothing higher.

 

Could be... I can hear the hard drive but it isn't annoying.. Mine's 5400 RPM, btw.

If you are looking for a silent laptop, the MacBook air is a good option.. Or some other fanless laptop..

 

Maybe for an M1530, but M1330s equipped with the 8400M GS run in the mid to high 90s while gaming...

Mine "idles" between 60 & 70C, depending on the fan's current state (from 0 to ~3K rpm)... .

 

I have hit 107ºC while gaming, and OCed to 900/600... The M1330 runs very hot on stock cooling..

 

How can that be safe lol?

 

It isnt..

 

You might wanna do something about that temp problem.. its really high. Howd you manage to get the core to 900? mine maxes out at 800. Is yours GDDR2 or 3

It runs really hot due to the thermal pad that dell put for the 8400m GS. They put this thermal pad which is a horrible horrible heat conductor. It looks like blue chewing gum

 

All the 1330 8400M GS cores have DDR3 memory... I am going to swap out the pads for something else in a week or two.. Since I have a bit of free time..

 

Really? mine maxes out at 800mhz.. must be driver oriented then

Ive already done the copper sheet/AS5 mod as seen here . It was an awesome success.

My max temps before with the stock thermal pad was 79-80

My max temps with the copper sheet and AS5 is 71-72c

OC'd on 600/1200/800 btw.

 

You took your 400MHz core up to 900...? And you didn't even try to OC your GDDR, not even one extra Megahertz (600 being stock)?

Why am I not buying this...

Aside from those sensational figures, I'm surprised the "system" (be it video BIOS or other instruction-set) allowed the core to go up to 107C because when I (& Tom_88) run ours and it hits 104C, the speeds automatically cut down to what's known as "Low Power 3D" speeds.

I admit that I used RivaTuner to set the Performance 3D figures (to 450/650) but not to set Lowpwr3D and maybe you set everything to your OC speeds...

 

The 8600m GT accutally can clock around 750/900 with a laptop cooler and run around 80c

 

I think he has different stock speeds.. because the stock for 8400m GS is 400/600 or hes posting the shader clock

 

Just a heads up that 0.9mm copper is not thick enough.

 

I used 0.650mm copper sheet although we do have different laptops...

 

Different laptops makes the world of difference.

 

With my targus cooler my Pavillon DV9140us never hits over 40c. Im confident I dont need to go messing with copper tubing to overclock a little.

 

never over 40c? that doesnt sound right...

nearly all notebook gpus cant even idle at those temps. due to the fact that most notebook's GPU and CPU sharing the heatsink and fan.

 

When its just being used for all it can be, web browsing and music play, if I keep it on the cooler its around 38-42, if I take it off the cooler it goes around 52 and reaches upwards of 70c.

This laptop has a 6150Go, it doesnt game. It cant run WoW on 800x600.

 

My mistake.. I should have clarified.. I am used to referring to clocks as Mem/Core.. So in my case.. 900 memory, 600 Core

 

oh sorry, i assumed you had a dedicated 8600m GS

The format for OC clocks as follows: Core/Shader/Memory or Core/Memory since shader is linked to Core. So 600/900 for you.. which is maxed out clocks.

 

I thought shader was linked to memory.

 

Shader is linked to core, but they can be set separately too...
As for temperatures, i don't really trust Rivatuner.. What Rivatuner shows me as graphics temps, Ik8 shows as memory temps... No idea which sensor they are detecting..

 

I never using anything other than ATITools.

 

return it to dell..

 

I'm very sensitive to noise too and found the 1330 too hot, loud and noisy for my liking. Plus the 1330 also had a defective keyboard. I ended up returning the laptop and getting my money back. Of course, it took over 2 weeks of calling to Dell and their bureaucratic mess, but I did get my money back.

I'm thinking about getting the Vostro 1310 which people have been saying hasn't been too bad with heat/fan noise.