xps1530 8600gt temps

hey guys,

I've posted about this issue on the dell board below and the laptopvideo2go board but have found no solutions, so maybe someone from the gaming sub-forum might have a clue.

So I've had my xps1530 for a short while. At first I noticed the temps for the gpu were a tad high when just idling [65-70C] and I hadn't gamed on the system. Recently I've started gaming [assassins creed,gears of war, cod4, crysis etc] and my temps shoot up to 95-110C, I've tried cleaning the vents etc and they were perfectly fine, i've tried different drivers and nothing..i dunno why my gpu temps are so high?? Can anyone help me before i fry this laptop.

P.S I haven't overclocked!!

Specs: t9300, 3gig, 8600gt gddr3 winxp sp3

thanks in advance

 

110 is really high.Send it back to dell.There might be something wrong with GPU fan.

 

You're idle temps are actually normal, but damn your gaming temps are way above average. It really should not be even be going over 80-85C. I don't know what drivers you tried, but you could try 174.74 they have been the coolest running (and fastest) for me, but I don't think drivers are going to give you the difference that you need.

The other thing is make sure that your laptop is raised up in the back, lowered my temperatures by about 10C. You could also try undervolting. If the temps still don't drop enough, you may want to call Dell, because your heatsink is probably not seated correctly or they messed up the paste.

 

Bad cooling from the heatsink. The HS might not be seated properly into the gpu chip or the thermal pad they use is a very bad conductor.

I suggest you call up dell and get them to fix this for you. A notebook cooler or undervolting wont fix this problem.

 

yeah, rambo is right. call dell support asap. maybe u want to allow betrer airflow but the laptop is very well ventilated. u might wan to buy a cooler. the idle temps are okay for a ddr3 card but on load no higher than 90C

 

hey thanks guys,

I've undervolted [cpu is alot cooler], im using the 174.74 currently and finally:

- If I ask dell to fix my gpu will I have to send the laptop in, can't they send out a technician to fix it? [i bought it from the small business site if that helps. I'm not too comfortable about sending in my laptop.

- I'm also on winxp, I know dell don't support xp so could they refuse to repair/help me with this issue as im on xp?

 

no, i highly doubt that because as long as xp didn't cause th eproblems, then they have to fix it. and i guess u cud have a tech come in but sending it in is aviable option as well.

 

That's way too hot.

Mine idles around 60-62deg, and with reasonable overclocking (610/950), only gets up to 73-74deg during heavy gaming. That is very respectable in my book, and left me thinking this laptop has an excellent cooling system. FYI, my laptop has the T9500 @ 2.6ghz, running XP like you, and running the 174.31 driver (official one) which gave me the best performance.

Something is wrong with yours I'd say - bad thermal paste application, bad fan, bad heatsink alignment or bad heatsink entirely. I'd get it checked out.

For the record, this laptop does not use a thermal pad (re: flipfire's post), gpu contacts with heatsink directly (via thermal paste) like the cpu to my knowledge.

 

Mine idles from 60 - 70 C, and under full load, it goes up to 88C...

 

Dell tends to send a technician out before they take any other action, so that's probably a pretty good guess. You would probably only send it back if the problem persists after the technician has visisted

Really it shouldn't matter because it definitely seems like you have a hardware problem rather than a software one. I don't know how easy it will be to convince the tech support people of that, though. They will probably tell you to install Vista and see if there is still a problem, and only help you farther after that.

 

Udi said it doesnt use a thermal pad, so im guessing the heatsink isnt seated properly or your fan isnt working properly

Can you post your CPU temps (idle and max)

 

hmm this is weird. I was using that I8kfangui app but apparently it was not working due to the bios locking fanspeeds so I was using it too monitor temps. The app was showing temps of 90-110C etc. So I uninstalled it and i am now using HWMonitor and just played assassins creed for abit and the max temp was 79C [174F]

Could someone recommend a reliable app that monitors cpu/gpu/memory etc all in one? Thanks

Oh and my cpu idle is 40..while gaming it goes up to 68-70max

 

i8kfangui is known to be innacurate and needs to be calibrated first.

Hwmonitor and or rivatuner will show the correct temps.

Seems like your gpu wasnt overheating after all.

 

The only app that I've managed to get running properly is HWMonitor. All the others give me false readings. I've even checked the temp physically at the GPU and CPU by using a IR thermal probe I have at work, HWMonitor was the only one that was even close.

 

I installed HWMonitor after I got a fan failed message on my desktop (even though all fans are working). I love it, its simple, effective and it doesn't require configuration of any kind like some of the other programs I've seen. I have it in my startup folder on both my computers.

Grand Admiral

 

Hwmonitor needs more customised options like:
-Run hidden on background
-Taskbar temp guages
-Startup launcher
-Temperature alarm
-Fail-safe features

and it would be perfect

 

Anything under 90 at full load is fine, GPUs have a much higher threshold for heat than CPUs, if you look in the Nvidia drivers it wont even throttle itself until it reaches 110 degrees +

You could remove the backplate and see if the heatsink looks like its seated well... Im not sure how easy it is to remove, but If you can remove it yourself without causing any damage / warranty issues then it could be as easy as putting some new TIM under it and re seating it. It would save you the few week wait for your laptop to come back from Dell.

Anyway good luck

*edit* Just saw your post above, Its all good!

 

My 8600gt has the same issue in my asus g1s, it idles at around 84 and shoots up to 110 when gaming.

 

What temp monitoring software?

Try HW Monitor and RivaTuner

 

Those temps are much more reasonable, both CPU and GPU, and those are probably the actual temps since they're in line with the temperatures that I get and have seen from others with the same model.

 

hw monitor

 

70 or so idle, and 85 under full load, ( slightly OC )

 

How did you find this out. I would like to know how to read the "throttling" temp from the drivers.

 

You should send it back to dell for repairs...only asus g1s's get this hot and quite frankly, it's not healthy no mater what anyone says.
Under 90C should be the max...

 

whoa that's hot. my g1s is idling at 63C atm, gaming it goes up to about 86C. As you can see the gpu downclocks itself quite a bit. Do you have the correct drivers?

 

I have the 174.31 drivers, the max temp is now about 102° so thats a bit of an improvement, but still way to high.