Very hot dv6tqe... thoughts?

Got my dv6tqe about a week ago.

While playing Battlefield Bad Company 2 with med/high graphics, the cores are averaging about 83C, apparently getting as high as 90C... I have the laptop raised slightly by a small pad just to help it get air, but that's it. If I put my hand near the fan exhaust, it's practically breathing fire.


This has got to be bad. What do I need to do other than kill the graphics? These temperatures seem unreasonably high.

 

Is that the CPU or the GPU. That's hot for a CPU, but not crazy for a GPU. The air coming out of the exhaust is supposed to be hot, that's the point. Is the computer uncomfortable to use? Are you seeing graphical artifacts?

 

Just the reading on all 4 cores in the i7 processor (not sure if that answers your question).

Not getting any graphical errors or anything. Maybe I'm just underestimating the kinda heat these can handle.

 

If you're adventurous you can try a repaste. Large companies like HP are notorious for bad paste jobs... it would probably drop your temps by 5-10+ degrees celsius.

 

My i5-2410m is consistently hotter than my Radeon 6770M when gaming for 10-30 minutes, but the temps are more around 82 C and 77 C, +/- a couple.

(and lower when the game is older and on lower settings)

It _might_ be "normal", but 90's getting close to the 100(?)C T-Junction...

 

I returned my dv6tqe with the 2630qm, but I can tell you what mine was like while I had it. I had the 9cell battery and the room temp is 72F. I had it on a desk with plenty of airflow. My gpu was usually in the 65-70C range while gaming and my cpu was in the 82-88C range. It got pretty uncomfortable on the left side after 30+ minutes of gaming. When I tried handbrake it worked wonderfully, ripped a 150min movie in roughly 15 minutes. However, the temps and the noise it made during this made me not want to do it again. During the rip one of my cores touched 94C while the others hovered around 90-92C. I couldn't justify doing this kind of load on my laptop when I knew with that kind of heat it is bound to lower the lifespan of the laptop. So I decided to just do that kind of workload on my desktop and returned the laptop in favor of getting the AMD one with the 1080 screen. Yeah, it might not be able to rip a dvd in 15mins, but I would rather take a hit in performance over melting a hole in my desk.

Note: These were my personal results unique to my laptop. Mine very well could have been an isolated case and by no means am I discouraging anyone from Intel. I am giving the AMD a go and if I have similar heat issues I won't hesitate to report it. I am not biased towards Intel or AMD, just looking for a laptop that fits my needs.

 

during gaming "The Witcher 2" my CPU reached 90 C and GPU 82 C.
afterward, I changed the CoolSence setting from "Performance" to "Coolest", now my CPU max. temp. 80-82 C and GPU 72 C.

CoolSence "coolest setting" will disable CPU Turbo Boost and increase fan activity resulting in lower CPU+GPU temp. meanwhile, I didn't observe any performance drop while gaming or 3D mark 2011 score with CoolSence setting change.