Worried about i7 3610QM temperatures

A few days ago I bought a new laptop, the brand is BTO, a dutch company that uses Clevo barebones.

It seems to run fine, but the CPU temperatures worry me.
The idle temps are around 50 degrees celcius. At this point the fan isn't noticable. There can be a difference of 7 degrees celcius between the coolest and hottest core. On a small load increasement, the temperatures rise with like 10 degrees, and then it can take a while before 'cold boot' temps will be reached again.

Since stressed temps are more important, I decided to run Prime95, the Blend test to be precisely. After an hour of Prime, I saw the maximum temperature was 88 degrees celcius. Isn't this a bit high? The ambient temperature was about 25 degrees celcius.

For temperature monitoring I used both Core Temp and RealTemp, they're showing about the same values.

 

The 3610QM has a rated temperature max of 105 Celsius. Stress tests are meant to push the components they are designed for. Your core temperature difference is, while not normal, not unheard of. It could technically be because of a poor thermal paste job where there is better contact at a particular part of the chip that corresponds to one core and that part has better cooling. However, temperatures of 60 degrees are normal under load. What temps do you get under normal load (NOT with stress tests)?

 

I only had the time to do a short session of Counter Strike: Global Offensive, after about 20 minutes the max reached temperature was 78 degrees celcius.
After putting some load on it, it takes a long time before 'reasonable' idle temperatures are reached again, this is caused by a less active cooling once there is hardly any load on the CPU anymore?

I'm aware of the fact that the CPU is rated for a max temperature of 105 celcius, yet I would like to stay far away from that temperature

 

i'm showing just about the exact same idle temps in my clevo p150em/sager np9150. ~42C coolest core/~49C hottest core at idle, similar ambient temp. if i turbo fan (fn + 1), i can bring all temps down by 7-10 degrees, but as soon as i kill the fan they go right back up to where they were.

 

Can you tell me about your stress temps?

 

yes, but i haven't stressed with prime before so i'll do that when i get home (to mimic your test) and let you know. i also want to pay a little more attention to load temps tonight so i'll check on both.

 

I would say it is higher than average. Bad thermal grease I think. Don't do anything and keep it unless fan's sound disturbs you very much.

 

The laptop is actually pretty silent, only when temps exceed +/- 70 degrees celcius, then the fan starts to make a noticable sound.

I wouldn't mind re-applying the thermal paste, but I'm afraid the warranty will be void when doing so.

 

What they don't know won't hurt them

But seriously IF you afraid that you can break smth (watch youtube disassembly guide) or IF there is a warranty stick glued there or IF you don't want to buy thermal grease then do not do it for sure.

In other words if you don't know what are you doing then don't

 

It's the warranty void sticker that concerns me

Btw, some other people with the same notebook that got even higher temps mailed the retailer, they replied there is nothing to worry about, but for my feeling the temps should and could be quite a bit lower

 

High temps do not necessarily damage the CPU unless we are talking high 90s. You should be fine as long as you stay below 90, which you do. Stress tests are NOT a good measure of how hot your CPU gets.

 

hi there, i have a BTO 15cl45 (w150ERQ) with the same cpu and mine gets as hot like that as well when gaming or stress testing and i re-applied TIM quite often with AS5, MX-4 and IC Diamond with little to no difference, GPU is super cool, cpu gets also to 85-90 degrees when gaming for a while or when running prime95. So if you know what ur doing it wont void ur warranty at all

 

That's not really abnormal. 88C should be perfectly safe and you'll never get that constant 100% from real loads. Because of the way turbo works on the Ivy Bridge processors they are not likely to get too hot to run safely unless you're running throttlestop, They throttle down to an extremely low failsafe speed once they exceed their thermal limit. I learned this with all the time I spent with that XPS 15 (3612QM) trying to make it actually run properly.

 

A guy here changed thermal compound and it gave -10 degrees. Now he browses with 55-63 degrees. He also posted pictires of disassembling.

You need to ask your question in this thread.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sag...sager-np6165-owners-lounge-6.html#post8481080

P.S. After warranty expires you need to drill holes under the vent. Seems that small holes are the reason.

 

i'm more or less right where you are at idle (maybe a little cooler), under load, and under stress. i was slightly surprised by my load temps. good surprised. this machine is awesome.

i jumped ~10C hotter from idle temps under this load (plus four midi controllers ):

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everything cooled back down to idle temps pretty quick (< 5 minutes). then i ran small fft prime for a half-hour:

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interesting to note, when core #2 peaked at 86C core #0 was 77C.

ten minutes after the test (with full fans on for five):

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I'm at a lanparty right now and I must say, the stressed temperatures don't disappoint me at all. The highest temperature measured was 78 degrees, although I am not sure about the ambient temperature. However, the idle temps seem pretty high, I guess that's caused by the fact the fan doesn't really kick in before a certain temperature. Any suggestions how to control that?

Something else I have noticed is that the GPU doesn't get hot at all, the highest measured temperature was 66 degrees after several hours of gaming.

 

I have the 9150 with a 3610QM and on prime I get a max temp of about 95c with ic diamond. But my ambient temp is currently around 30+ so that could have something to do with it haha

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