ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 temperature?

Hi, I have an MSI GX610 laptop with ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2600 graphics card and it idles around 65C. I wonder if it's okay if it reaches up to 107C while gaming. I went to a computer repair shop and one of the employees told me it's fine as long as it doesn't exceed over 110C. What's the normal temperature range for idle and gaming? Thanks.

 

wow thats crazy!

My 7600go even overclocked a lot never goes over 60C under gaming and idles around 45C

 

That's not really a very good temperature at all.

I would recommend that you give your cooling fans and heatpipes a good clean out. This would involve taking the notebook apart and using a can of compressed air to get rid of the accumulated dust. Hopefully, it is only a build up of dust that has caused such high temperatures.

You could also try buying a new thermal paste, and applying that. Quite often, the stock OEM thermal paste is average at cooling, and some OCZ Freeze or Arctic Silver 5 could help.

If that doesn't work, you could try undervolting the GPU, so it consumes less power, and therefore shouldn't produce quite as much heat.

If that doesn't work, I would get a notebook cooler, preferably one that fits the vents of your laptop and is able to cool your notebook efficiently and easily. Some popular coolers are the Cryo LX and Zalman NC2000.

Just for reference, as the 3650 and HD 2600 use the same core, mine idles at 42C and gets to a maximum of 66C under load. I would be aiming to definitely have that GPU under 95C while under load.

 

Thats not right, have you checked that the notebook's cooling system is not full of dust?

I overclock the HD2600 in my 8510p to HD2600XT clock speed and more, never over 63C.

 

I have a Gateway M-6862 with the same card and while it never got near those numbers it did always crash. Sadly I can't play anything on it as any game triggers a sound loop crash after a random amount of time that can only be fixed with a hard shutdown. I tried undervolting and while it lowered the temps a decent amount (especially on the cpu but also the gpu) it didn't help with the crashing issue. If I were you I'd try undervolting since you don't seem to have any problems besides it getting excessively hot. It lowered my temps by 5-7 degrees under load when I ran orthos but then again mine maxed at 66 degrees before I undervolted. I think there's something very wrong with your laptop if you are idling at 65 degrees. It should be at least 15 degrees cooler.

 

I disagree with this. Quite a few laptops idle with their GPU's at 65C, it's just the load temperatures which really matter.

 

I agree that the load temp is the one that matters but don't you think that his idle temp is excessively high when most people posting with the 2600 are 15-25 degrees cooler? I mean my card is likely f'ed up but it never got near the temps of the op even when it was crashing. Maybe it would be helpful to know if this is always how the laptops heat has been or if it started out cooler when he first got it.

 

Hey guys, thanks so much for trying to help. Apparently I have cleaned my fans, there was barely any dust. I've also reapplied thermal paste too. And on top of that I have a cooling fan. :-|

I found out when I use my laptop with just the battery plugged in, the temperature goes as low to 17C during idle. But when I plug in the power supply adapter, that's when it starts getting hot. Any ideas? :-(

 

Maybe check your plugged in power plan settings.

 

your temps are extremely strange esp considering your low is 17 and your high is 107. 65 at idle is way to high, my dual gpu's rarely get that hot and I don't use a cooling pad. Besides checking your power settings what are you using to check your temps?

 

That's very, very strange. I have never seen a GPU idle at 17C, excepting the rare desktop with a watercooled system.

 

I am using HWMonitor to monitor my temps. How do I check my power plan settings?

 

17C idle temperture is not possible in any laptop,even the best laptop shouldn't run at 17C at idle.(gpu)

107C is aint a problem for your gpu,ati gpu's are durable to heat,I have a gpu that I used too see 128C while gaming but nothing happened.It is 5 years old know.

Are you Sure that the fan is spinning when the gpu is at idle?Or is the heatsink contacting with gpu?

 

TBH i'd try a few more monitoring programs first and see what temps they say.

 

the temps are too high and 17C is not possible in a laptop... u certainly need to blow dust out of ur fans using compressed air , undervolt CPU and get notebook cooling pad... the dust might be ur biggest problem heating the GPU up too much.