HP DV6 New thermal paste, high idle temperatures

Hi everyone, i have a HP DV6 laptop with the i7 2670qm processor, 8gig ram, 750gb hard drive and switchable graphics with an ATI 7690M XT.

I noticed in the past few months my idle temperatures where around 51-54C they keep fluctuating constantly (using intel graphics), so i decided to apply new thermal paste on my cpu and gpu. I used Antec Formula 7 Nano Diamond Thermal Compound, and applied it a bit to the CPU and GPU.

Its been about a day now, and the temperatures the same at idle, around 51-54C causing the fan to start spinning. I also did a Intel Burn Test, and the highest temp it reached was around 81C so i am assuming that is good.

What can i do to reduce my idle temperatures? I noticed in Windows 7 the idle temperatures were around 46C, but always higher in Windows 8.

The drivers for the Intel 3000 is 9.17.10.2867 and for the AMD 7690M XT it is 9.0.0.0.

What is everyone else getting for idle temperatures with the Intel i7 2670QM?

I have included a picture of the temperatures.

 

Those are pretty decent temperatures on idle for DV6s, DV7s and DM4s (these same "species" of laptops run idle at approximately these temperatures). The cooling solution used by DVs and DM4s I mentioned are shared heat sinks with just about 2 thin copper pipes, heat sinks made of aluminium of some alloy - probably not the best cooling solution around (plus the BIOS restrictions on manually setting fan speeds)

A non-issue. If fact if you haven't pasted the CPU, the stock paste could probably give you ~60C or even higher depending on the amount of dust cakes in the fan.

If you're worried about temperatures on load, disable Intel turboboost. Intel turboboost isn't a good implementation on the overall when it comes to laptops. For that incremental amount of performance boost, it heats the CPU immensely.

If you wanted to turn off turboboost

1. Power options, current power plan
2. Advanced settings
3. Go to maximum processor state, change 100% to 99%.

Turboboost is a feature that only turns on if an application requests for P0 (highest processor state @ 100%). 50C is excellent for a DV.

 

Thanks a lot for the reply. I am not worried about the temperatures at load, as they never get higher than 85C doing CPU stress, it is just that i want to lower the idle temperatures so when i do small tasks such as browsing, the fans won't come on.

 

If you just want to browse without the fans, switch to the Intel HD and Coolsense to silent.

 

I only use Intel HD graphics, and my coolsense only has the options of on/off/auto and its currently at auto

 

Do you have a HP software framework which comes with a different component for coolsense? It has an option called "Coolest" which will activate fan speed increases at lower temperatures.

For example if you hear the fan roaring after you hit 90C, you'd hear that roar at 80C after the "Coolest" tweak.

Otherwise tbh, coolsense.exe has limited use.

I haven't talked about this but if I were to turn the HP Software Framework's coolsense to coolest, my idle's about 43C, 49-50C without this tweak (On switchable graphics, AMD active). I haven't really payed attention to temperatures on hybrid graphics but the last time I saw this, I noticed hybrid graphics temps were lower than switchable temps on my system.

My room temperature's over 20C FYI.