My computer is burning up!

Ok, a couple of weeks ago I went the undervolting route on my Gateway p-173x. I ran a couple of tests and seemed to get a reasonable thermal rate without any crashes. Since the mod all I have really done with it was surf the web.

Today I decide to fire up my Demigod game and have a go. Well after about 15 minutes the computer shut off. I found it odd, so I checked my power settings and realized that I had set the computer to turn off after about 30 minutes. I thought that maybe that had to be it. I turned that off and tried again. Well it shut off again....

I checked the thermal monitor on Rightmark and it was saying that the temp was only at 49. I ran the game again and it shut off again. I opened up Cupid and it told a totally different story.

Temps for everything hit 107-129 degrees. What gives? During the recommended stress test the temps only hit around 65-70. I never had any problems running games prior to the undervolt. I use to run Cyrsis with no problem. The only reason I bothered with the undervolt was because I was having intermittent problems with the display cutting out when my computer was hooked up to my 42" LCD. I wasn't running the game to through the tv when this happened. HELLLLP!

 

try cleaning the vents they can get clogged up.

 

Are those temps in Celsius or Fahrenheit? I don't think I've ever heard of the hard drive reaching 100C and remaining in one piece. 100F for everything should be fine, 100C is a completely different story

 

Fahrenheit...err, I should have paid attention in Science class. Ok, could the problem be that I have the volt set to low? Even though with the stress test it didn't fail.

 

I opened it up and the vents were pretty clean.

 

Your undervolt may be too low, try raising the voltage a bit

 

How do I check the temp 7805?

 

download hwmonitor... it gives you temps of CPU, GPU, and Hard Drives.

 

Well I raised the volt a little bit more to see. I played Demigod for about 5 minutes and then exited out early to see what the temps were. The GPU temps were at 76c just after that short period of time. I am really at a loss. This is all while the laptop is plugged up to a cooling pad.

Should I lower the resolution in the game? Would that in turn lower the power needed to run the game? As I have said previously, I never had a problem running Crysis on high. That was of course prior to undervolting, I have not tried it since.

 

I ran the program, played counterstrike source and half life 2 episode 2 for 15 minutes, resolution 1600x1200 max details 2aa and max gpu temp was 69

I am playing on the counter at the moment without a laptop cooler

the other max temps were

ACPI was 57
Processor temps were 41 and 39 max
gpu was 69 max
HDD was 52


this pretty normal?

 

What kind of cooling pad were you using? The screen resolution can have a significant effect on temps, I don't think power is a concern.

You're temps seem pretty normal, much like what mine were with my P7805u. My Zalman NC2000 does an excellent job of keeping everything cool, especially my hard drive which always ran 55C.

 

Belkin cooling pad.

 

My $0.02:

Those temps are pretty normal. Actually they're pretty good. Though I don't have the same computer, my CPU goes up in the 80s which is fine.

This is pretty general but as long as your temps don't go above 90c while playing a game (CPU/GPU) then you should be fine.

That HDD is alittle warm though; I noticed gateway HDD run warm. Watch the failure temp of the HDD you have. HDDs are very susceptible to heat damage.

Just check the Manufacturers suggested Operating temps.

 

Yea, the hard drive temps were my biggest concern... one I got my Zalman NC2000, my HD hasn't passed 50C. The palm rest is still warm though. I'll likely be investing in an SSD when the prices become reasonable, and I'm sure my heat problems will go away.

 

I guess the next step would be to run the game to see if it shuts off
again. It's good to know that those temps are fairly normal. I was really stressing. Is there a more efficient cooling pad? With the Belkin, the fan doesn't seem to be in the optimal position for cooling the Gateway in particular.