DV1000t -- Hot!!

I picked up a DV1000t (DV1600 series in Canada) with a buddy. We got it started and up and running. This thing runs HOT. I mean, it was so hot on the left side that you can't have it on your lap without burning you b@lls. At one point, the CPU temp was 81c.

So I took it appart (I know, voids warranty), and found that there was NO thermal paste between the CPU and Heatpipe. I tossed some AS5 on there, made a firm seatting, and the temps have dropped 10c. Then I undervolted the CPU with RMClock, and dropped the temps another 8c.

Its still a warm machine (and its fan is loud), expecially compared to my ASUS. But idling at 55c and load at 65c is much better than before.

My buddy is happy. I'm just glad its not my computer.

/me loves his ASUS.

 

Wow, that's a huge difference still. I have to assume the absence of thermal paste was a mistake because I've never heard of an HP running that hot. My dv5000z runs only warm, although it's not easy to tell the actual temp since there's no CPU temp sensor, but the HD temp sensor says around 43 C, and I'm sure the heat is roughly the same.

 

You might want to tell your friend to invest in a cooler too. My old Pentium 4-M doesn't even run that hot on my lap. It's like 70c max..

As a side-note, just curious, did you mean to put /em, as in /emote? It's an shortcut in FFXI and I've only seen people who play use it =X

 

/me is an IRC command. In IRC it would come out as "RogueMonk loves his ASUS."

 

Ah yes, I used to use IRC a while back, must have forgotten..

 

Actually, the DV1000T is fairly cool for a laptop of it's type.

It feels warm on the left side due to the hard drive.

I've run NHC and find the cpu temp just fine, and the fan does a decent job cooling it.

Definitely no need to tear it apart.