New dv5z extremely hot?

Hey all. My cousin bought a dv5z for herself for her freshman year in college, and decided to let me look it over to make sure it's good.

When running a stress test on it, I notice that it gets EXTREMELY HOT. I'm talking 90-92c under full CPU load. The bottom almost gets too hot to hold.

She's running the AMD Turion x2 ZM-80, 2GB of RAM, an ATi HD3200, and a 250GB HDD.

Is this normal for this laptop?

 

A couple of additional questions to help answer your question:

1) How long did you run the test?
2) Which test was it?
3) On battery or plugged in?

Thanks.

BBGus

 

1. I forget, but I think it was like 12 minutes or so
2. ORTHOS
3. Plugged in

 

well this settles it, im not buying a 5z!

 

A couple of things to consider.

1) When plugged in, the default settings are automatically switched to max meaning higher power, but also more heat.
2) Most users don't use programming that pegs the CPU and system like Orthos does as a stress test.
3) Heat can sometimes be easily remedied with a better system fan controlling program such as SpeedFan that adjusts fan speed better than typical BIOS settings from major manufacturers.

What surface were you working on when you preformed the test?

BBGus

 

In addition to what surface the notebook was on, could you feel air coming out of the vents, and what was the ambient room temperature?

 

My cousin even complained of it being hot (I assume it was battery, as it was on her lap). In my case, it was on a wooden table.

The ambient room temperature is probably 77F. Yes, I can feel air coming out of the vents and it's warm.

Edit: Another issue I have is, that the hard drive is ALWAYS being accessed. The light is always blinking. Just booted to normal mode, and the CPU is idling at 63c, and it's booted fully and the hard drive is constantly being accessed. What gives?

 

I'm glad you brought that up. My dv5t does the same thing. When my
desktop is idling, there is no hard drive activity whatsoever. With my
laptop, the flashing never stops. Hopefully somone can shed some light
on this.

Rob

 

if you leave it idle long enough it will stop. It is vista doing maintenance(defragging, indexing, updating, etc.)

 

Thanks for the input. I remember reading something about indexing somewhere and how it had negative resource effects. Can it be turned
off, or should I just leave it alone?

Rob

 

what these 15inch puma notebooks have high temperatures too? my 12inch tx2500 has temperatures in the high 80's(85-90)c while gaming or emulation. i thought the size was one of the reason for high temperatures, but guess not. geez makes me wonder if these pumas are defective like those hp nividia chips. im pretty sure laptops cant survive very long with temperatures in the 80-90 range.

whats the point of releasing a newer cpu/chipset if the temperatures are even worst than previous 90nm cpus? heed my word potential buyers, amd is not a good mobile choice. if high temperature, low battery life, slow performance scare you, then avoid amd with a 10 foot pole.

 

well there seems to be in a bit of bias here, althought i wont argue that it is slightly hotter than other laptops. The hottest area under the laptop is the RAM compartment. the RAM is very close to the service door. The other areas of the laptop are much cooler. The vent area does blow out alot of hot air.

Well of course, if the laptop is under high stress, you can't ask for a cool laptop. the AMD chipset under non gaming usage won't feel hot at all.

 

You CAN turn it off, but it's not really all that resource hogging. Unless you have a single core CPU with less than 1gb of ram, you should be good. But if you still want to disable it, just click on Computer, Right click the hard drive and uncheck 'index this drive'.

 

Can anyone post a CPUID Hardware Monitor screenshot of their idle temps on the dv5z. I'd like to compare it with the nvidia 8-series chipset/Griffin cpus that are used on the dv5z's corporate cousin, the cq50z.

 

Thanks, again, for your assistance. I already disabled Indexing via Services,
but there is still hard drive activity. I turned it back on. Must be something
else. I'll stop being paranoid and move on...

Rob

 

Yes there is a way to turn off indexing and that can be found in the tweaking sticky; i personally have my data partition index as i am too lazy to browse my folders. It does hurt performance a little but ONLY while indexing IIRC, and the only time it indexes is when you acquire new files ( like downloading a video ).

 

Once you have everything installed, just let it do it's indexing, once it's indexed the entire drive it won't do it very often except to update.

 

The indexing will not be as frequent as time goes on. This actually will speed up the system in the future. Make sure the power setting is set to "Balanced" and not "High Performance"

 

Oh since it is an HP it has "HP Recomended" power setting but you can change it to "Balanced".

 

Actually, I think the "HP Recommended" setting is "Balanced" (or takes the place of it anyway).......