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    Studio 1555 overheating

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Deioneus, Aug 20, 2010.

  1. Deioneus

    Deioneus Notebook Consultant

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    Hey everyone,

    Im having a bit of trouble with my Studio 1555 which is under 6 months old -- every time I play Unreal Tournament 3, the system overheats and begins to throttle within ~15 minutes. Using GPU-Z and HWMonitor I've seen the GPU temperature hit 102*C, and that's while the system is sitting on a dual-fan notebook cooler. I've tried dropping the settings lower in UT to no avail. Any ideas?

    Specs: 2.4GHz Intel C2D P8600, 4 GB RAM, 320 GB 7200 RPM HDD, ATI 4570 512MB.
     
    Deioneus, Aug 20, 2010
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  2. unclewebb

    unclewebb ThrottleStop Author

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    Are you under volting your CPU yet? That can reduce the amount of heat in your CPU which will also reduce the amount of heat in your GPU. If you haven't thoroughly cleaned it lately, that would be a good first step. You might also want to replace the heatsink paste or pads.
     
    unclewebb, Aug 21, 2010
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  3. Deioneus

    Deioneus Notebook Consultant

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    Is that really necessary? I find it surprising that one would need to go through such steps just to prevent their notebook from overheating all the time - did Dell's engineers fall asleep when they designed the cooling system for this model or what?
     
    Deioneus, Aug 22, 2010
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  4. OneCool

    OneCool I AM NUMBER 67

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    Yep.


    Mine too!
     
    OneCool, Aug 24, 2010
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    Cleaning a laptop can really help with temps.
    And 102C is very dangerous for the cpu. How long since you last cleaned it?
     
    TheCodeBreaker, Aug 24, 2010
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  6. Deioneus

    Deioneus Notebook Consultant

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    I've tried cleaning it several times to no avail - the only thing I haven't done is tear it apart and replace the thermal pads on it. It's the GPU that is hitting insane temperatures, the CPU itself seems to stay at about ~80-85*C on max load.

    From what I've seen in some pictures, the cooling design on the 1555 blows - there's a heatsink for the CPU and Chipset with a heatpipe that goes to the fan, then a heatsink for the graphics card that has a heatpipe that goes nowhere. *sigh*
     
    Deioneus, Aug 24, 2010
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  7. OneCool

    OneCool I AM NUMBER 67

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    OneCool, Aug 25, 2010
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