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    Are these good temperatures during playing caarbon on a inspiron 6400

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by death__machine, Apr 8, 2007.

  1. death__machine

    death__machine Notebook Guru

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    Specifications of my 6400:
    2.0 ghz Core 2 duo
    2 GB 667 mhz ram
    ATI X1400 128 mb(any idea how do i change the amt of ram being shared?)
    120 GB HDD

    My temps reach

    HDD:55 C
    Core 0 and 1 near 40-45 C
    System 27 C
     
    death__machine, Apr 8, 2007
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  2. TeeJay 44

    TeeJay 44 Notebook Deity

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    HDD is a bit warm but probably OK. CPU is fine at those temps.

    What make of HDD do you have?
     
    TeeJay 44, Apr 8, 2007
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  3. FREN

    FREN Hi, I'm a PC. NBR Reviewer

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    Hard drive is very high. Hard drive failures are much more likely the hotter a hard drive gets. A hard drive under 50* C will be happy.
     
    FREN, Apr 8, 2007
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    usapatriot Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Yup yup, the Hard Drive temperture is a bit high. Mine never goes above 35c.
     
    usapatriot, Apr 8, 2007
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  5. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    While I agree that the hdd temp is way to high, reading that report on failing drives a couple weeks/months back gave me the insight that temperature if the smallest factor playing in early failures. I don't know how true that is, but if you go by their findings, his temps should not be the biggest thing in determining the life of his drive as other aspects.
     
    adinu, Apr 8, 2007
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