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    HP Temperature?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by vistan00b, Jan 22, 2008.

  1. vistan00b

    vistan00b Notebook Enthusiast

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    Looking around the forum, trying to find solutions to reduce the heat of my laptop, found that Speedfan and HWmonitor can monitor my temperature. I was just curious as to what the temperature my laptop is running, why it's hot and all. HWMonitor says:

    core #0 50C
    core #1 56C
    GPU core 75C
    (all these values are fluctuating)

    But Speedfan says temp1 is 28C (constant)

    So which is which?
    Warning: VERY TOTAL NOOB HERE. PLEASE REP IN LAYMAN'S TERMS. ;)
     
    vistan00b, Jan 22, 2008
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  2. Teraforce

    Teraforce Flying through life

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    Just curios, what model of Laptop do you have?

    "core #0" and "core#1" refer to your CPU (the main processor). Those temps are quite normal AFAIK for a CPU. At least on my nw8440, I've rarely seen the CPU temps go below 50C.

    "GPU core" refers to your graphics card. That temp seems a bit high, though I don't know for sure.

    I'm only guessing that "temp1" refers to your Hard Drive (HD). Try running a virus scan while looking at "temp1" and see what happens. If "temp1" shoots up during the virus scan, then you'll know that it's your Hard Drive. If it is indeed your Hard Drive, then the temperature for it is actually quite good, considering my HD idles around 34C (give or take a few degrees).

    I hope this helps!
     
    Teraforce, Jan 22, 2008
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  3. bustanut456

    bustanut456 Notebook Geek

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    ohh my second hhd goes about 52c lising to music, my other hdd in my laptop only hits 34c, hey vistanoob if those are your temps doing nothing, just sitting at the desktop then thats a lil high...

    hp should give us safe zones of temps for things...
     
    bustanut456, Jan 22, 2008
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  4. vistan00b

    vistan00b Notebook Enthusiast

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    Oh sorry, I have a Dv6404, amd turion64x2, a 1gb ram - i hope that's enough info?
    These temps were taken when i was just surfing around the net.
    Thanks for the help guys.
    Maybe I'll just buy a new cooling pad... I just noticed the heat when it broke down.
     
    vistan00b, Jan 24, 2008
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  5. Estlander

    Estlander Notebook Consultant

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    My dv6119us, also with AMD Turion64x2, had the same GPU & CPU temps prior to updating to a new BIOS(F.3D) for my laptop. The new BIOS drastically lowered all the temps. on my laptop.
    Cooling pad had no effect whatsoever on my CPU & GPU. It did, however, lower the temp of my HDD by 10 C.
    See what BIOS you got, and then go to HP website and see what the newest BIOS for your model is that they got.
     
    Estlander, Jan 24, 2008
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  6. Estlander

    Estlander Notebook Consultant

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    Just wanted to add that to help you out, i got you a direct link to your model. Since i don't know whether you got the tx, tu or ca model, then you yourself can choose the right one, after which choose your Windows version.

    If it's the Canadian(ca) model you've got, then that has the same BIOS(F.3D) available for it that lowered my temps.
    Here's the link:
    http://h20180.www2.hp.com/apps/Look...e=s-002&h_query=dv6404&submit.x=13&submit.y=4
     
    Estlander, Jan 24, 2008
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