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    Proper Temps for DV5-1157CA

    Discussion in 'HP' started by somhavoc, Oct 23, 2008.

  1. somhavoc

    somhavoc Notebook Consultant

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    Hey all,

    Just wanted to know if anyone knows the "proper" temps. the Intel P7350 and the DV5-1157CA should be running at. Idel Speed fans says 39-40c for both cores and around 44c for the laptop it self. When playing games like COD4 it gets up to arounf 70c !! is that right? Seems like it is way to freaking hot to me. Also, been noticing kind of lag program switching performance from this machine where it will say "program is not responding" but then after like 5 sec the command "minimize" lets says then works. Also, right out of the box my Recovery DVD software states that there is no drive that can create the DVD's. Updated both patches for that recovery software but nothing... Wondering if this machine is going to be or is already a lemon or some sort of citrus fruit..lol. Other then those issues, system plays great with games, DoDS, CoD4 and so on, just wondering about these simple issues. Running Vista 64bit with 4GB RAm, specs are in the sig,

    thanks to all who respond. :)

    Cheers.
     
    somhavoc, Oct 23, 2008
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  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    70c is a decent temperature for gaming.
    80c is when you should start to worry.
    90c is when you should panic
    100c is when you should get a fire extinguisher

    Check your GPU temperature too.

    There has been bugs with the Recovery Creator for a long time, were it doesn't detect your drive properly. You can call up HP and they will send you the discs instead.

    You still have a recovery partition built-in which does the exact same thing.
     
    flipfire, Oct 23, 2008
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  3. somhavoc

    somhavoc Notebook Consultant

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    yes thanks. My GPU gets to about 65c on load with games, as per GPU-z. Thanks for the info. It is od, becasue of with my experiance with "in store setups" at staples with HP machines, I never had an issue creating recovery Media, with any HP machine. I have completed ALOT of recovery media with HP, Toshiba, Gateway, Compaq, Acer, but none of them have done that to me.

    Thanks for the info. :)
     
    somhavoc, Oct 24, 2008
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    somhavoc Notebook Consultant

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    just so you know, I just RTV's the other laptop and got a new dv5. Wierd thing is that this machine has a fijitsu HD instead of the WD sata2 on the old machine. why would they not just keep the same HD in the same model machines... oh well...
     
    somhavoc, Nov 14, 2008
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