AMD Turion Temperature

My CPU runs at 58-60 Degree Celcius under normal usage...

& My GPU runs at 79-80 Degree Celcius...


Are the temperatures too high?

 

Seems really high just for normal usage. I'm surfing the web and my CPU/GPU temps are 39/45, granted Core 2 Duos run cooler but that's a huge difference. Have you cleaned out your vents lately or consider buying a cooling pad?

 

Download a copy of cpu rightmark clock management from cpuid's webpage. Read about how to undervolt, and you will be able to cut core temperatures significantly. AMD Turion's undervolt pretty well, so you should be able to cut 20F off of the core temps, by restricting the core voltage.

K-TRON

 

Yes your CPU temp at idle is quite hot mine is 45 degrees Celcius.
At full capacity I get to 70 degress.

GPU temp at idle is quite hot mine is 65 degrees Celcius.
At full capacity I get to 80 degress.

What is the size of your laptop?? the size will affect the temp of your CPU and GPU.

 

Presuming that "normal usage" is idle. What do you mean by "normal usage"?

 

normal usage means only Firefox browser is being used..

While Gaming the GPU temperature is reaching 96 degree Celcius..

I used NVmonitor of nTune as Well as HWmonitor ... both giving same readings

 

don't forget about ambient temp too since in Singapore now temp is around 3x C (9xF) while in NY, it's just around 3xF!!

 

96 is a big high but generally I say the rule of thumb is that if it ain't crashing on you it should be fine. Laptop CPUs and GPUs are meant to be able to run up to pretty high temps due to the (relatively) weak cooling solutions on most notebooks.

 

Well ..sometimes on long gaming sessions of 4 Hours+ (CS matches).. the Framerate Suddenly drops to 20-30 FPS.. this might be a sign of overheating GPU.

How effective is Zalman Cooler in bringing down temperature?
How much Celcius does it bring down?

 

My CPU runs 32 degrees while surfing the net, and around 56 degrees encoding video.

This is using the 'Balanced' power scheme.

Yours does seem a bit high.

 

Having a 15 inch laptop you really have high temps. You already cleaced the fan?

 

I do not have specific numbers to back up my observations but I'd like to share my experiences. I have a Core 2 Duo T7800 at 2.6ghz, and was repairing and reformatting a Turion x2 TL-56 1.8ghz for a friend. Obviously since I am used to my laptop, the Turion felt very sluggish, but not only that, I could noticeably feel a LOT more heat on the Turion laptop and in the heat coming out of the exhaust vents even though it ran at a lower clockspeed, had integrated graphics and a 5400rpm drive in a 15.4" chassis as compared to my laptop (see sig). From a power user standpoint I cannot stand the Turion, but from a budget user perspective I think it is a capable CPU (I'm just not a budget user). I suggest not using a significantly faster computer for any decent amount of time, otherwise when using any other computer you'll become extremely impatient - that's what happened to me unfortunately

 

I have a F572AU with AMD TL-56 and GeForce 6100. Your machine temperature is looking very high. My system will idle at around CPU 35 - 38 C and GPU 56 - 58 C.

I did update to the latest HP BIOS which keeps the fan running constantly. I noriced the machine is no longer hot to the touch after the BIOS update.

You may or may not realise HP has a significant motherboard failure rate with its AMD/Broadcom based machines. My own theory is overheating is the source of the problem.

 

Are you making use of "Power Now" feature to help with heat?

 

okay, i ll flash the BIOS today itself then

 

limelong: that's correct. The AMD CPUs weren't getting hot enough to kick in the cooling fan often enough, which meant that the rest of the chassis got cooked. Broadcom WiFi cards are particularly vulnerable (Intel notebooks don't use them). The newer BIOSes fix this problem by keeping the fan running slowly and quietly, which makes a dramatic difference. By rights HP's Intel notebooks need the same BIOS fix, not sure if they ever got it though.

 

I have an HP DV6113US w/ TL-50.

Right now, with Firefox and Outlook open:
CPU: 54 C
GPU: 74 C

I am using a Zalman Cooler set at low.

I'm thinking about undervolting, is RMClock free?

 

How easy is Flashing BIOS? Never done that before

 

high

i ran a t 64 normal usage is 60c. the gpu is 70. this is on a 12.1 hp tablet.

 

you know all this talk of AMD heat makes me leary to go with them.
I am, (have to now, my laptop is 7yrs old and the cd/rw stopped working the other day), buying a new one real soon. Between 2 fujitsu's, one AMD 2.0ghz, the other t5550 1.83 core2duo.
I like both but I may chicken out of the AMD option. Any opinion?
joe

 

Forums are the place where people come to complain, so if you look through you will find many one sided stories. I am not saying the people who have high temps are lying but the fact is if you look around the web you will see many people complain about Intels running hot as well. On my system atleast the Turion TL-50 has been running quite cool, infact my GPU idles at a higher temperature than the max on my cpu.



BTW, the idle temps are with the fan off. With the fan on it idles around 30C -33C. The ambient temperature in my room is around 22C. So, I dont live in the freezer or something to see those temps.

Just download the spxxxx.exe from HP.com for your system and run it. Ofcourse make sure any other program(antivirus/firewall/spyware) dont interfere with it and its also a good idea to disconnect any external USB/firewire devices and remove any CD/DVD from the system before trying to flash the system.

 

hey thanks for the info. now i have 2 choose one of the 2 systems i'm looking at. i can save a few more dollars on the AMD because AMD doesnt have to pay the blue man group to advertise their products.

 

AMD processors are for people who wants to save a few bucks, while still getting almost same performance with the low end processor of intels which are still priced quite high.

 

don't you kinda wish AMD was motivated to keep up with intel in the notebook segment? the turion is still the turion, and the core 2 duo keeps on pushing the envelope.

 

well yes, i would like AMD to be more aggresive but there platform will be changing next year where there are reprts saying that the new platform will use less electricity be faster and all other improvements.

 

AMD is opening Research Centre in India for R&D .. Indian engineers basically..they are positive that the Indian Engineers will contribute something for AMD Chip research.. and push them ahead in the Race with Intel.

 

and from what i have gathered the turion is reliable in terms of running the "long haul".

 

Look in the power profile settings on your laptop, and look at the Processor power managment bit, and check that the "minimum clock" is set to 5%, this will allow the cpu speed to change depending on load.

 

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K-TRON