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    Is 137c normal for my gpu?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by johncolazabal, Jun 2, 2010.

  1. johncolazabal

    johncolazabal Notebook Geek

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    Not sure if this temperature is normal for laptop gpu
     
  2. classic77

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    137C? Do you mean 137F? If you mean C, that is astronomical. Your PC will soon explode. Also, what is you GPU?
     
  3. xxERIKxx

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    No not at all. What gpu do you have? When's the last time you cleaned your laptop?
     
  4. Shadowfate

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    I cant even believe that a computer will not shut down by itself when it reached that temp assuming that is Celsius.
     
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    I cant believe his laptop isnt melting or even smoking
     
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    I don't think there exist any GPUs which would be sufficiently functional at 137C to get a temperature reading so I'm pretty sure either the temperature censor is broken or the intended temperature was 137F which is about 58C and is perfectly fine.
     
  7. mrbee33

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    he must mean Fahrenheit, there is no way that is Celsius. His laptop would've caught fire if it was that hot.
     
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    it would do a critical shut down @ 105c. this has got to be a joke.
     
  9. johncolazabal

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    My gpu is a geforce go 6150 and yes, it is celsius not fahrenheit. i can post a pic if necessary.
     
  10. johncolazabal

    johncolazabal Notebook Geek

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    okay how do you post pics.. i want to show you that is celsius
     
  11. _Josh

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    Your GPU is a molten blob, now.
     
  12. Lithus

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    I can post a picture of HWMonitor showing 2354907652 degrees. Doesn't mean it's true.

    No GPU will hit 137 without a shutdown. You would be physically burned if you touched the laptop at that temperature.
     
  13. sean473

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    well the old ATI radeon cards use to hit 120C++ without shutdown and this being a 6000 series card , i'm not suprised.. anyways , u can attach pics.. just look for clip symbol when u write ur new post.
     
  14. ryzeki

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    Actually... I think it is real. I handled an old HP laptopt with a similar problem, that at IDLE it was around 80C.

    The laptop died not soon after those temps were experienced and it turned out to be a bad thermal paste job. Considering that such GPU is actually part of the motherboard is the worrying part.
     
  15. Kevin

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    I refuse to believe that you'd think 137C is normal.
     
  16. mrbee33

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    lol i kinda believe him now, i used to have an old HP with a 6150 in it and it reached 110 (maybe higher, i didnt monitor much back then). so hey, who knows, maybe its possible.
     
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    Same, my old hp, the same gfx card reached 120degrees ish celsius. And yes, it did burn my hand to use the laptop.
     
  18. EchoShade

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    My DV9000 used to burn me around those temps. It's mainly very very very horrible heat transfer that needs disassembly to fix.
     
  19. Greg

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    At 137C we'd be talking about silicon essentially melting. Your laptop would be a brick.
     
  20. xTank Jones16x

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    Like the kids say now-a-days, no pic no proof.

    To post a screenshot:

    First take the screenshot
    Then reply to this post at either the top left or bottom left
    Scroll down to "Additional Options"
    Where it says "Manage Attachments" go ahead and click that
    A new window will pop up
    Click "Browse" and find where you saved the screenshot
    Then hit "ok" and then "upload"
    Now just close that small window, and post your reply.
     
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    I've reached 113+ Celsius stable on an 8600m GT (crashed around 115-120 Celsius), and I completely believe this. I've used an hp tablet with a similar gpu, and it idled at around 95 Celsius before I undervolted it.

    @OP

    Clean out your vents, reapply thermal paste, and check out the undervolting guide since the cpu and gpu are likely on the same heatsink.
     
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    i've never hit triple digits ever in celsius i think the most i ever saw on my m17x was 88C and that was without my zalman at some 1 elses house
     
  24. lozanogo

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    Well, it is normal is you plan to fry some eggs. :p

    In any case it would be good that you check the vents and use some compressed air to clear them from dust (with the laptop turned off and no battery connected). That may be the cause of your abnormal high temperatures.
     
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    OP might want to check if the motherboard temperature sensor is malfunctioning, none of the posters so far have seen temperatures higher than 120 celsius without the notebook in question either failing or shutting down as a failsafe.
     
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    The temp shutdown threshold (straight from factory) on my old XPS Gen2 with a 6800 Ultra was 115C. I reached it a few times when OC'ed during GPU intensive games. I think his should cook something and something ain't right that needs correcting, but I can certainly see the thing getting that hot if a shutdown parameter/switch wasn't utilized in his machine. Those series of cards ran super hot.
     
  27. agusman

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    The only way I'll believe this is if I see some pictures.... of you frying eggs on your keyboard :D
     
  28. bossier330

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    What are you monitoring your temps with? Im pretty sure other components around your GPU would melt with that temp. What's your CPU temp?
     
  29. lackofcheese

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    It takes 4-digit temperatures for silicon to melt.
     
  30. Kevin

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    At what temp is your CPU, when the GPU hits 137 degrees?
     
  31. KING19

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    Now i believe him

    Its a defective chip. I used to have a HP with that GPU, on idle the temps was 80c and while playing some games like Sim city 4 the temps have reached to 122C and the fans were super loud. I cleaned the vents, only the CPU temps went down and not the GPU temps. Sooner of later i was getting random freezes out of nowhere then later it died (motherboard failure).

    You can try to reapply thermal paste on the GPU
     
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    He has gotta mean Fahrenheit, or obviously the reading is wrong
     
  33. Purlpo

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    is 15.7×106K normal for my gpu?

    Not sure if this temperature is normal for laptop gpu.



    Of course not. 100c is the water boiling temperature, geez...
     
  34. Pitabred

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    Why has nobody asked the obvious? Is it possible the thermal diode is malfuctioning, or the offset is wrong? I have seen that before.
     
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    I've had a 8600M GT stable 115 too. Nvidia's GPU (and only the GPU, not talking about other things near it) are certified 127C. They should shut down over that though I guess. But 137C may be too much for the silicon, or near it's max. My have a threshold near 140C I guess.
     
  36. droes

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    Silicon is nowhere near its maximum at 140°C, it melts around 1600 degrees. My 8600M goes up to 110 as well under load (stable), so 137, while high, is credible imo.


    And the boiling point for hydrogen gas is -252, but that doesn't have anything to do with it either.
     
  37. JCMS

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    I actually just learned that Silicon in English actually means Silicium in the other languages, the element. I was sure it was Silicone
    , which is the product derived from it that can be melting at 120~300C. Rofl
     
  38. junglebungle

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    delete

    delete
     
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    Any difference between the 2 highlighted terms?
     
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    Whenever you get these "look at how big my number is" threads, no one actually bothers to read anything. It just becomes:

    It's (not) possible!
    Pics or GTFO!
    I wanna say something too!
    I like turtles.

    Let's wait until about 15 more people come here and say essentially the same thing, then shut it down.
     
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    i believe the difference would be that the thermal diode is embedded into the gpu where as the mobo thermal sensor could be located anywhere on the mobo.

    also i dunno if undervolting would be a good idea because isnt his particular gpu part of the mcp?

    either way your gpu does have a history of extremely high failure rates due to subpar materials not temps although that is a contributing factor to its failure.
     
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    you are wrong. i like whales. :rolleyes: :D
     
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    run furmark and see if you can get it hotter :D
     
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    Oh man.. DO IT!
     
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    I guess I better put in my part then. Blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah.
     
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    How old is notebook and how often did u clean it inside? Or a better question would be, have you ever done that? My advice, take it to a specialized service, open and clean it. Change the thermal paste, undervolt your CPU. Also, I'm not sure if its the same on you, but my HP's heatsinks are bellow the laptop, so after i raised it a few centimeters from the table, my overall temps went down with ~10 degrees. Thing is, it's a known problem for my model, so like i said, i can't say if it will help, but it's worth a try.