What is your idle CPU temp?

pentium m 1.6ghz undervolted
around 33 degrees C

 

63 C, playing mp3s and surfing the web. See sig for specs.

 

not reallly, my experience is that there is some kind of complementarity
between mobilemeter and speedfan. On my current notebook I have no complains about the cpu temperature is not read correctly my MM.

 

Since I applied Arctic Silver 5 thermal compound, in combination with a cooling pad and undervolting, I idle around 37-39*, about 40-42* when surfing the Internet.

 

How do you apply Artic Silver 5 and where do you get it from???

 

It's not easy, but the results can be quite good, you'll see a 2*-7*C drop in temperature. The application process is VERY important. There are directions on their website on how to apply it. You can pick up a tube of AS5 for about $7 on Newegg.com for one of the smaller tubes.

 

Pentium M 1.86ghz/800mhz 44 C

 

Intel Centrino M 2.13Ghz - 56C

 

The temperature of my Turion ML34 went up as the spring set in (50-57* -the fan comes on). Yet, as soon as I got this strange looking cooler, the CPU cooled down to 38-43* (all temps for light Internet browsing).

 

Whats a good temp for a notebook and at what temp is it TOO hot? (as in at what temp could it be bad and cause damage?)

 

I have an AMD Athlon 64 3500+ that idle's (I know it's hard to believe but it's true) at 28 c. I have nothing overclocked. Bear in mind that my laptop has one (of two) fans running all the time.

P.S.-I have an HP zv6000 and the hottest I have ever seen it (while gaming) is 55 c.

 

For me anything higher than 65C is too hot and definitely don't want to touch.
However most of the notebooks should be ok upto 100C.

 

Pentium M 750
~65 degrees no OC no DC
reached 89 degrees once when gaming on a hot day, had the Asus warning message pop up.

Strange that all your readings seem to be so low. You all using the thermometer built into the CPU? Or perhaps running in the downclocked battery saving mode?

 

Mine is 45C and 35C for the Hd wtf???/

How do I get it under 20?

 

Those are not bad at all, especially your hard drive. That is exceptionally low. Different notebooks have different cooling systems and placement of parts, fans, etc, so your temperatures are going to be differnet than other people's.

 

The room temp these days here in Croatia is around 26 degrees C. Outside it reaches 35. I noticed that my idle temp went up a bit, but the real problem is under the 100% load. It shows 78-80 degrees now, instead of 72-74. Even with undervolting and cooler. So I guess, summertime has a significant impact on temps.

Cheers,

Ivan

 

Mine stays around 18C-27C idle and goes up to 40 after playing BF2. Ambient temperature is around 80F (~28C). I haven't overclocked or undervolted, or at least I don't think the CPU has been undervolted. According to Everest, Dell sent me an engineering sample???

 

I have a 1.83 GHz duo core with no over/underclocking.

Temp 39.5 C
HD 47 C

 

That is interesting! That means that your laptop actually cools the room down on idle. Does your comp feel warmer than your hand on idle. My surely does. What does Everest Sensor say? Can you read other temps?

And my temps on GMA900 and not overclocked, but undervolted are 44 on idle.

With x700, overclocked and undervolted are around 51.

Cooler makes things ok.

Cheers,

Ivan

 

My TM 8200 on 60 average. This thing so hot. I,m surprise so many laptop only 40-50. Is this mean something wrong? I only ran opera.
iamapato01 maybe you can help me, yours is same witih mine.
thx before

 

Centrino 770 2.16GHz 51-53c idle
Seagate HDD 7200RPM - 38c idle

 

Delete my last post. For some odd reason Everest Home Edition did not read temp right. Download MobileMeter The right temp are 49c CPU/51c HDD at idle. Temp at max is 79c CPU/58c HDD. Cpu is P3[900MHz] plugged in.

 

lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

50c +/- @ idle...I've seen 69c while processing video.

 

well, i can only say for my desktop right now...

AMD 3200+ socket 939 @ 2.5Ghz, idles around 30C, max around 45C, air cooling only. Stock heatsink/fan, no AS5 applied.

i'll post some laptop temps once i get it... hehehe, maybe in a month or so

 

I tried mobile meter and NHC and none of them can detect my CPU temp. Any other programs that i can try?

 

Everest Home Edition if you can find it.

 

im running @51c idle !!!

 

sometimes my temp hits 70c !! under heavy load

 

Acer AS 3623WXCI - Celeron M 370(1.5GHz/1M/400FSB) idles ~53C and under full load hits 70C. Ambient temps around ~25C.

 

I followed Chaz's cool your laptop guide for undervolting with NHC (- ~.2v) and my highest temp so far after forcing the full 2ghz and overclocking my GPU was 117*F (47C) !!! it used to go up to 70C regularly. Im idling at 34C right now.

Is there any way to cool the hd?

 

Glad to see you found the guide helpful. I'm also searching for a solution to cool down the hard drive . . for now, I have the Pacific Breeze cooler, which does a decent job of keeping it cool (minus 3*-5*C). Mine is still around 50*-51*C however, and will idle a bit higher when it is hotter out (52*-53*C). Doesn't help that I installed an Audigy 2 PCMCIA card, which sits right above the hard drive.

 

At idle on AC power, core temps cycle between 44°C and 48°C. Once one core hits 48°C, the fan throttles up, running until one core falls back to 44°C. Full cycle time (up and back down) is about two minutes.

HD temp at idle sits steady at 45°C.

I'm going to have to see if I can figure out why the CPUs heat up, even at idle. I'm sure there's *somthing* running that shouldn't be, but the only things I see taking anything over occasional 1% CPU are explorer.exe and scureapp.exe, leading to a load that floats between 2% and 5%, with most time spent at 4%.

I would think that, at that level, one core should be able to shut down at idle and, with AS5, I should see stable temp in the 46°C range. Fan cycling surely can be mildly annoying in a quiet room.

System is as shown in my sig.

 

Fans on slow, spire pacific breeze cooler, and idling overnight at an ambient 25C yields:

 

At idle, with spire pacific breeze cooler on low.

 

what temperature would be considered dangerous for your cpu?

 

Depends on the cpu - p4 throttles back around 70-80c so they don't burn. Pentium-m & core duo is around 100c.

Also take note that NHC may report the wrong sensor for the cpu temp. Both my Toshiba and Asus laptop was reported incorrectly. I was thinking how cool my cpu ran until I installed Speedfan. The best way to tell if its actually reading the temp properly, it should jump in tangent with load. Use stress test such as SuperPi... The temp should instantly jump by a significant amount and instantly drop when finished. Also do it with lighter task such as playing a DVD etc.

 

My desktop AMD 3500+ states 34 C at idle after undervolt.

 

Generally, it takes a lot to harm your CPU. What normally happens is (at worst) that the system just crashes, and you have to wait for things to cool down a bit before booting again.

I doubt any CPU will take actual damage at temperatures below 100C, probably closer to 130-150..

 

my dual core 1.8 keep at around 50c without any fans running and it is in stock trim so no under volting

 

At idle my TurionX2 stays around 35 - 38C without the use af any external cooling solution.

 

You didn't go low enough for me, my idle cpu temp is 26C degrees. No undervolting or anything, it gets up to about 40C tops when gaming.

 

Wow, how on earth did you do that? I cant even get my Pentium M down that low in the refrigerated server room at college.

 

Its a core duo, and my gpu (a 7900gs) doesnt get real hot, so my entire lappy runs really **** cool. Plus the case has REALLY good ventilation, so that always helps. Ohh, and I am running I8kfangui , and that controls my fans and that keeps everything down while gaming.

 

My Macbook is 31 C when being used with Safari, Word, Aim, And Itunes. 28 C is my idle temp.

 

Ha ha! That is freaky low! Especially for your specs. My 1.86ghz PM undervolted to 0.716V with x700 in power save mode with a Spire cooler to top it off goes down to 28C in the server room!

Congratulations!!!

 

My Compaq Pentium 4 1.8GHz idles at around 54C. I am new to the mobile world, so I am just now getting around to installing all the software needed.

My current desktop is-

Pentium 4 Prescott 2.4GHz
2G PC3200 RAM
Nvidia 6800GT
Razer Diamondback (Which I use on my notebook when gaming)
Antec Shark Case with 120mm Red LED fan, and 80mm Blue LED fan
PCI GPU Cooler

 

Core Duo T2050; 35 degrees or so.

 

Core duo T2500 -> +-45°C
with fan's off.. I think with fans on i can get 28°C or something

 

24c undervolted and use cooling pad