8530p what temperatures to expect

Hi, I've just bought 8530p with a T9400 and ATI mobility Radeon HD 3650.
What temperatures do you guys get?
My temperatures are:

idle:
Cores: 33-36c
GPU: 44-45c

load:
Cores: 64-66c
GPU:72-80.

Anyone care to comment upon the temperatures above? I think they are a 'tad' high under idling (where speedstep is kicked in).
Can anyone with a 8530p provide me with something to compare against?

I'm thinking that I might do a cleanout and replace the thermal paste to reduce the temperatures, anyone tried that on a 8530p with good results?


Thanks.

 

It's just fine if you ask me. I've said it before and i will say it again - idle temps do NOT matter as long as load temps don't burn exhaust grille marks onto your legs.

 

Yeah - however, idling temperatures, which are high, do tend to heighten the noise from the fan. I wanted to avoid that, to do so, it seems my CPU temperature must be around ~32c for the fan to be very silent.

 

Undervolt it.

Anyway, unless you live in Russia or Alaska i can't see how you'll get 32C idle on a mobile chip. It just won't happen. FYI, my DV9700 runs idle at 45-50C CPU, 60C GPU and the fan is on minimum, it is barely audible. CPU is undervolted and GPU is overclocked. On full load the CPU runs in the low 70s and the 8400GS just one bit over 80. Fan hardly ever goes past medium.

But again, every laptop is built differently. With yours being a 15.4" model i can see why the fan is noisy - it simply has too little room so it has to run at a fairly high speed to keep temps in check. My DV5 is pretty noisy as well. On the 17" 9700 it's simply its physical size which allows the fan to run slower. I actually bought it with a fan fault, and even so it ran up to 20 minutes until it reached shutdown temperature.

 

I did what you suggested and undervolted my CPU. While the idling temperatures are the same, the core runs alot cooler when under medium-load, e.g. when playing a 720p video.
The temperatures about 60c for CPU and 80c for gpu when under heavy load.
My settings are as follows:
6.0x: 0.9v
7.0x: 0.9v
8.0x: 0.925v
9.0x: 0.9500v
10.0x:0.9750v

Thanks for the suggestion

 

That's fine. ATi chips tend to run a bit on the hot side but it'll be fine, don't worry.

 

In your sig it looks like you have two AMD processors, un1qu3. Do you have any overheating problems with either of your computers?

 

No.

The DV5 does run a bit hotter due to its small size, but with undervolting full load temps are 84C, which is acceptable. As for the DV9700, like i said above, full load is in the low 70s.

 

Both sets of temps seem very low. What are you using to measure temps, and what are you using to load it?
I have a 8530p/w (with Quadro 770) but with same CPU as you T9400, with AS5 paste. I load it with "Orthos", and measure temps with "Core Temp" and ATITool. I have found that RMClock shows about 8deg lower temps than core temp does (I'm quoting core temp temps here). My fan stops at 45deg core, so I'm not going to get any lower than that unless I move to Antarctica.

Idle:
CPU: 44-50
GPU: 44-50

Load: (Both CPU[Orthos] and GPU[AtiTool 3D window] simultaneously)
CPU: 80-85
GPU: 80

That is with CPU undervolted to 0.975 max. If I do that at stock VID I get thermal throttling after about 10 minutes (90 deg CPU).

 

I Use CPUID Hardware Monitor to measure temperatures, and it appears to be pretty accurate, but it shows the same temperature as RMClock for the cores, writing this message, my cores are 35c and 36c and gpu 46c.

For benchmarking, I open 3 x 1080p hd videos in VLC player, which maxes my CPUs. For 3D, I simply play halflife, Section 8, etc. games. I then note my max GPU temperature, (it can't be considered a benchmark). My GPU normally maxes out at 78c, but It has reached 85c sometimes.

Please note that when measuring idling temperatures, throttling is enabled. When measuring load temperatures, throttling is disabled.

 

I have noticed that CPUID based software does something dodgy to one of the ACPI temperature sensors when they are run on this laptop. The ACPI source is TZ3 "CPUZ", and whenever I run anything from CPUID, that TZ gets locked to 16deg until reboot. That TZ is the CPU temperature zone, and it tracks pretty closely to the temps shown by CoreTemp (until CPUID screws it).

 

Just to set the record straight. I now have a retail version of the 8530w, and I concur with your original temps. Its a T9400 with 770m and stock thermal paste.

Idle:
CPU: 30-35
GPU: 44-50

Load: (Both CPU[Orthos] and GPU[AtiTool 3D window] simultaneously)
CPU: 65-70
GPU: 70

Those are all stock temps on the laptop straight out of the sealed box. No undervolting or anything. My previous temps were on a pre-production "For SI Build" laptop, the mobo, heatsink and fan are slightly different to retail versions. I'm going to rebuild it with a retail mobo and see if that makes any difference. Sorry for the misleading info I posted previously.