Max temp for stock laptop?

Hello, I have looked around and found many different answers but none for laptops. I have a stock laptop with a 2.4ghz i5 and I use realtemp to montior and alert me when temps are to high for the CPU GPU and HDD but I don't know what temp to set the alarm at for each component? so at what temp both C and F please should I start to worry and maybe let the laptop cool down? Thanks

 

Processors usually will shut down at 100C to preserve them. A high temperature for a processor in a laptop is 60Cish. 80C is really hot tho and you should start to worry then.

For a GPU, they tend to throttle at 90Cish and shut down around 100C. 80C is probably the highest you want it going tho.

For a HDD, 30C is average and 50C+ is hot.
Laptop specs would help tho to determine exact temps.

 

Pretty much what s2odin said.

The one thing I will add that his GPU stuff mainly pertains to the GPU Core.

A GPU Core shuts down at about 100C and the highest I like to go is the high 80s. A GPU's Memory will go up to 110C before it shuts down and for safety you probably shouldnt go above 95 on a regular or prolonged basis.

 

Real temp, didn't work so I installed speed fan it 5 temps HDD 41C, ACPI temp 1 and 2 at 50C and Core 0 and 1 at 65C. what is the ACPI, the motherboard?

 

Some good info for you.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...rket-upgrades/263039-nbr-cooling-central.html

 

thank you!

 

What everyone said is good advice.

However silicon is relatively resilient, it's a lot rarer today to find someone whose chip died from pure overheating. I've been overvolting and overclocking my GPU for a while now. It's endured days of gaming sessions at 101-103C, been to 107C several times, and 118C once. No ill effects or artifacts.

Some older chips like some flavors of the Pentium 4 or faulty G86 GPUs from nVidia did experience long-term degredation from high voltages and temps. But overall you should be perfectly fine if you let your chips take care of themselves (ie: let them downclock/undervolt if they get too hot). 80C is a comfy number for people on here, but you really aren't going to kill anything for years to come until you get well past 100C.

 

It depends on how old your laptop is. Modern laptop components will automatically adjust their clock speeds when the temperatures get too high. CPUs will also automatically overclock ("Turbo") themselves when it is lower than a certain threshold. Barring a hardware fault (broken fan, bad connection to heat sink, etc.), you should never have to worry about CPU/GPU temperatures being too high at stock since they take care of it for you.

 

The temps that are more or less 'standard' for laptops on full load with gaming gpu on full throttle would be roughly up to 85 degrees C (which is still the safety zone). Going to the 90-ies is worrying and recommended to avoid.

Better temps would be in the 75 degrees C range for example.
However, the cooling in many laptops is inefficient, so certain ones will have larger temps (up to 85 degrees c more or less).

 

This, it's not unusual to see thing and light laptops running hot or laptops with either undersized cooling or a terrible thermal paste application between the heatsink and components.

 

Many 14" and some 15" laptops with quad-core CPUs also have severe overheating problems.

OEMs are too happy to sell systems that they know won't work properly, all for the sake of big, impressive-sounding numbers

 

In which case, people should return bought laptops and inform sellers (and manufacturers) that the shoddy cooling will not do.

Seriously, the materials needed to produce much more efficient cooling wouldn't radically increase the cost (and if it would increase it, it would probably be negligible).
I'm a bit sick of all the stupid work they do. For example, instead of using copper shims (which are insanely cheap) to close the gap between the heatsink and chips, they use thermal pads, along with very poor quality thermal paste (and improper application) - oh and copper-based heatsink would definitely benefit from being lapped and polished down to the mirror effect.

The needed work for companies that mostly either automatize the workload and/or have tons of workers to do it would be minimal in comparison.
They are just lazy.

Now if they wanted to get really serious, they would have been using diamonds in computers for 30 or 40 years to stave off heat and produce much more powerful and efficient systems - production was never a problem - the cartel that holds that particular market in it's grasp and charges insane prices is.

And if Graphene was used 10 years ago (about 2 years after making it public knowledge).... let's just say that I see the consumer-grade technology in general as 'child's play' for the most part.