Serious heat issues.

Here's some info about my laptop first.

Inspiron 9300
Intel Pentium M 1.8ghz
GeForce 6800 Go
2gb DDR2 Ram
BIOs version A04
Latest Laptop2go drivers

I recently installed i8kfangui to monitor my temps and I was shocked at how hot I was running. Before I've always known my laptop was getting hot when I played games because it was always hot to the touch. Well, according to i8kfangui, as I'm typing this my CPU is at 47C and my GPU is at 68C. When I load up a game, World of Warcraft for example, my CPU goes up to 90C and my card is about 80C. Idle, my CPU load is 7% but with WoW open its at 100%. The fans automatically come on at 70C at full speed but the temp is still crazy high. Can you guys help explain why my temp would go so high?

 

NO overclocking right ? My 8700M GT with no oc (625/1600) idles at 53c and capped at max 69c during heavy gaming like FEAR, Oblivion, STALKER etc....... Your GPU's "idle" temp is my maximum gaming temp. You might want to get a cooler just in case......

 

You might want to clean out your system of dust. Get a can of compressed air remove back panels and blow out dust that is your problem.

Also install NHC and see if temps are the same just for fun!

 

The MBP I've got usually maxes out at 80C unless I forget to turn the fans on.

I'd suggest cleaning out your fans and vents like baddogboxer said. If you are up to it, go to Radioshack and buy some Thermal Paste (Arctic Silver 5, should come in a little syringe) and apply it to your GPU heatsink and CPU heatsink.

Otherwise, a quick fix is to place your computer on 4 bottle caps to prop it up a bit. The added airflow will cool it off a little extra.

 

Well, I do have a laptop cooler. My laptop always sits elevated on a cooler master notepal. It has two fans blowing away from the bottom. Also, I just got done taking apart my laptop to see if there's any dust congestion. I didn't see anything too bad. A little dust on the fans, but that's it. I may try thermal paste, but I'm a little worried about removing the processor units.

Also, what is NHC?

 

You see a little dust and are not worried? You need to blow it out completly, and being on a cooler with those temps is not a good thing, you apear to have a problem.

Notebook Hardware Control, check it out just to see temps.

Overheating and seeing dust, get rid of it.

 

You ARE sure that the cooler blows so that the laptop can use the air... right? Otherwise, it actually restricts airflow to the laptop. Most blow up into the laptop, then out the side/back.

 

I'm sure the fans are blowing away. There's an arc for the air flow, so the cooling pad isn't directly flat with the bottom of the laptop. And on top of that its elevated 2-3 inches off the desk top. I know it doesn't make a huge difference, but atleast it'll help.

Tomorrow I'm gonna take it apart again and blow everything completely out. And when I say dust on the fan, I mean theres a little bit of dust on the blades. When you guys blow the dust out of you fans, do you take the laptop casing completely off, or do you just blow compressed air into the vents?

 

i had an alienware that reached near to those temps, which is incredibly hot and will disrupt all aspects of performance. what i was told by the alienware reps was that they would send me thermal paste and i'd put it between the cpu ... that is before i returned the laptop and got something else ;p

 

OK, my Inspiron 1300 or whatever the B130 is was also overheating to stay at a point that it was always clocked down. Blowing the dust out of the vent lowered it back to the 40s-50s.

 

Is there a way to determine the temperature without using an external device on Vista? I know that MBM doesn't work on Vista

 

Have you thought of undervolting your cpu? Also when you take it apart try cleaning the cpu and heatsink and applying arctic silver 5 thermal paste.