UNCLE MILTY..I mean UNCLEWEB ??

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Hi uncleweb, I need a little advice.

I have a 1st generation Core i3-380M. When I run PRIME95 with the sensor test on REALTEMP 3.70, I'm getting very high max temps (see above) while running in a 63F environment.

After tons of reading and downloading I've come to the conclusion that 'RMclock' will not work with this processor. I read online that the only option was to use CPUGenie (?) or your program ThrottleStop, which if I'm not mistaken is not intended for changing voltages per se.

After more reading.... it seems that a person can NOT adjust the voltage on this processor anyway. (If I'm wrong on any of these assumptions PLEASE correct me).

I had plans on running a program that is known for really 'pushing' a cpu to it's limits and was therefore advised to monitor the temps while running it. Lucking I started checking temps before just going ahead as my IDLE temps were in the 54C range. I got those numbers down with a thorough fan/exhaust port cleaning and also by lowering my idle percentages in ac mode (WIN7) from 5% to 2%. The 2 cores are now idling at 34c and 26c temp wise. When watching videos i spike momentarily at 75C and then run about 58-65C, from then on.

So i have a couple of questions:

1) While running Prime95, are these (see above test pics) normal temps/'nature of the beast' for this processor ?

2) If these are not NORMAL temps...what can I do to lower them (I mean other than a bigger fan/a cooling pad, etc). without taking a performance hit?

I would like to get Prime95 test temp numbers down to at least 75C. Is this possible, or am I just asking to much out of this laptop?

 

98c is quite high.

But it depends on what laptop it is. Some are worse than others dissipating heat.

At this point however, it looks like you may have serious dust clogging your whole cooling system. You need to go through the whole dust off the heatsink situation. just Google it. This will very likely solve your problem. Unless you had issues from Day 0, then you might want to replace the thermal paste.

i3 should never need any software to bring down temperature. I mean... NEVER... it's an i3...

 

98 is really high for a "low powered" i3-380m, I would expect much lower but we also know that most i3s are the high leakage binned i5s with disabled turboboost (due to leakage) so their voltages are already not ideal for their clockspeed. As for performance, you can try to disassemble the laptop and apply some IC Diamond to the heatsink. This should drop temperatures by about 5-10% (i.e. the most benefit will be load temperatures).
Other than that, there isnt much you can do without compromising performance.
Btw what machine is that you are using?

 

It's an MSI A6200. here's a pic of it's heatsink/fan assembly.

As stated in original post, I've already cleaned out the fan and exhaust port with my air compressor. I was streaming videos last night and when the page was loading, temps would momentarily hit 75C