Is this Safe?

I bought, in my opinion, a really nice laptop,a sager np2092 (2.5 GHZ core 2 duo t9300, 4 GB ram, 320GB Hard Drive, Vista x64, Nvidia 8600m gt, or whatever it is that it comes with). After looking at some GPU comparisons online, i found out that the 8600m gt is really terrible, the only other thing I personally had to compare it to was a ATI x 1600 pro, on my old ****ty desktop, so i thought that it was pretty decent, but what can you do.

Anyways, I recently over clocked it and I'm not sure if the settings I have are safe or not. Right now, it's set to 625/1260/470 and I get an idle temperature of about 65 degrees Celsius, a bit on the high side, and up to 90 degrees Celsius while playing a game, which is pretty damn high. I live in Vancouver so the highest temperature it gets outside is about 30 degrees Celsius and i still haven't bought a cooling fan for it (yet). Should I worry about these settings and temperatures or should i leave them?

Also, what are good cooling pad brands?

 

zalman cooling pads (spelled wrong i think)

Yeah there a bit high i would downclock it a bit.

 

zalman nc1000/nc2000 and notepal infinite(i think )

You should back down your clocks a bit, also how old is your lappy? If its more than a few months, check your vents to make sure they don't have dust.

 

You could try lifting the part where the battery is off the ground, I did that for my laptop and although it isn't a NP2092, it did lower temps by quite a bit.

 

Zalman is probably the best but I've been using a Belkin Cooling Pad and I've been pretty pleased with it. For only about $35 you get an efficient cooling pad with a nice design and some mobility. It offers no additional USB ports but connects through USB without any additional cables, if this matters to you. So, basically I'd say go with Belkin if you're looking for a decent cooling pad for a decent price.

 

its a 9600gt inside

 

Is 80 a good gaming temperature? I've heard that going over 85 causes longtime damage to the gpu.

 

On my desktop, with the worse oveheating video card aka the 8800GT, it caps and 80 and then the framerate drops to let it cool a bit. For desktop, the real max is 100 and on laptop, it would be around 90. But 80 is really the recommanded max even if most laptops goes behond it.

 

The np2092 use a gddr2 8600m GT...

 

OK, downclocked.
Now 60 Idle, 80 Playing Crysis (now it lags on very high ).
Zalman NC2000 the best cooling pad then? Is it worth the $80 it'll cost me?

 

8600m is a GREAT GPU. No you can't play Crysis on Very High, but heck, most desktop cards struggle with that. But you can play pretty much everything else out there at 1280x800 and med to high settings.

Try to underclock your CPU. This should drop temps by a good 8-10deg C.

I wouldn't worry much about 80C either. Notebook GPU's can run at 90C or so without worry, although not recommended only because it pumps out a lot of heat to your lap if you use it there.

Cooling pads are ok, but it's a PITA if you want to game on the go.