Inspiron N5110 Overheating Problem

Hello guys,
I need some help here, I've been awhile using the N5110 product, everytime I play high quality games like F.E.A.R 3, Call of Duty Black Ops, Need for Speed Hot Pursuit. My CPU and GPU Temperature will goes up to 87~90+, yesterday it shutdown because of overheating. Normal CPU Temp is 57-67

I've tried alot of way and searching the google about the problem, and now Im about to open the hardware to check the dust issue, so I was wondering if theres any help that may reduce the heat.

Anyway Im using this fan http://www.coolermaster.com/upload/product/6610/featured/top2.jpg?532015480

Thanks.

 

I would look to repaste it as well as blow out all the dust in the fan/heatsinks/heatfins. You can get Dell's service manuals by going to support.dell.com punching in your service tag and clicking manuals and go to service manuals.

 

Thanks for the help.
Anyway, I found a way to reduce the heat just now by editing the power option.

Thank you so much guys for the help.

 

whaaaat?? please tell me how you lowered your heat. PLEASE IM HAVING THE SAME PROBLEM! please everything you did, please tell me EXACTLY what you did. please please please!

 

Pease Kooda wath you did to fix the heat problem, I desperatly need that info. Please share the trick.

 

Did you follow all the steps in my above post?

 

uh! maybe Im missing something but the only step I can see is about dust removal. I hope you PLEASE can say the steps for that "power option" that U use.

 

Hey! for all who were wondering about a solution, I have one. I have the same laptop with the same overheating problems and my theory is, that they suck at desiging a case lol. I'm not an expert or anything but from what I can see, the main problem is that the processor is too powerful for the cooler in the laptop (especially with the Turboboost enabled) I use the same solution as KooDa. If you are using windows 7, go to Control Panel->Power options. Click on "change plan settings" next to the plan you have selected. Once you're in there, click on "change advanced power settings". Scroll down , and look for "Processor power management". Select "Maximum processor state" (plugged in or on battery is self explanatory) and turn it down to 60%, this will reduce the heating a *lot* but thanks for the processor being bada$$ it will still run games perfectly. Also check the "Minimum processor state" and if it's on 100%, turn it down to 60%. Basically this means that your system will only use 60% of your processor's power. For example if you have a 2300mhz processor , it will tune it down to about 1350 mhz which seems a lot less, but it doesn't really show when it comes to gaming. I can run everything on the same details as I could when I used the full power of the cpu. I hope i could help!

 

Thanks a lot my laptop never overheated but it did get hot however I got fps drops which I think was because it was getting to hot, but I did what you said I put it down to 80 and games (bf3) run so much smoother now and i don't get fps drops this helps a lot Thanks

 

Can it be done on every laptop? How about an XPS 15?

 

You can always give it a try