does dv5t(with 9600GT GPU) overheat?

Hello guys, my dv5t is on shipping to me. But I've heard that this machine
especially with such a strong graphics card, can burn if you use it for
a couple of hours' 3D game. Even it can be quite quite hot during
normal operation such as WORD processs or surfing on internet.
Is it true? Is there anybody who has this machine with 9600GT?
Can you share your experience to control it from overheating?
If you think this machine is totally an oven then i have to consider
to return it to HP think you~~~

 

If it's already shipping to you then I say just wait and see rather than worry endlessly about it. Nothing beats first hand experience. If it helps, though, I looked at a dv5t at Best Buy the other day and it seemed mostly cool to me.

 

Well HP has no restocking fee, so just try it out for a week or so, and see how hot it gets. If it's too hot for you, just call them up and return it.

 

i just got my dv5t in yesterday with the 9600 and 2.8ghz processor, and its very hot when im usin it, and it overheated once already, im gonna wait another day or two to make any decisions though

 

Well, that processor + gpu will be giving off some considerable heat. I'm running a similar, just that i'm using the T9400 instead of yours, but we are still the T series. Lifting the back of the HP with some thing like sticky notes will allow it to be considerably cooler. How did you overheat though? Running a stress test whilst i was trying to undervolt, i was at ~90C and it was ok. Just make sure you aren't using it on a bed when running something intensive.

 

P8400 + 9600gt here

I was running cod4 for about 15 - 20 min and my gpu got up to 94c, and that's with a antec notebook cooler. Just surfing the net my gpu stays around 50 - 55

 

OMFG just lift the back off of the table or whatever and it will max at 78 degrees celsius in gpu, mine idles at 44 degrees

 

lool its a sad thing that hp are the only ones to put decent graphics cards in their mainstream laptops at the expense of major heat issues, but i guess when you do game once in a while do as robin15 said and make sure the fan slits get plenty of air.

 

mine can get nice and toasty when i play Fallout 3, or run iTunes + Firefox + Poker at the same time

 

i guess i got a super dv5t then , all I hear is bad things about the dv5t, plus, I play about an hour or two at a time on crysis or Halo 2 (BTW get 90 fps average on halo 2 lolzor). Anyway, like I said, just make sure you got 1/2 inch clearance from the table and relax... I play lots of 360 btw...

 

...then again I had fallout on high as was playing in my bed.

 

t9400 and 9600m gt, i idle at 42 degrees C, and the max i ever get is 85 degrees C with any high graphic game. *mine is undervolted and antec cooler

 

I've got the p8400 + 9600m gt combo. Make sure you update your bios as it includes video card bios alterations also which reduced my max temp by about 10 degrees from peaks at 95 to struggling to get over 85 with the back raised in both cases. (ambient temps of currently 24-28 Celsius, yeah it's moving into summer here). I do binge sessions of cod4 now and then and the left palm rest gets pretty toasty, uncomfortably so at times, but it's a quirk I'm only to happy to have for the sake of horsepower and you can always place something on the palm rest if you find the heat getting to you. For me I'm pretty chuffed at getting such a high spec machine squished into such a small size for a bargain price. I buy on value for money horsepower, others may not though.

As I type this my gpu idle is at 46 degrees and cpu @ 32 in an ambient temp of approx 24 degrees.

 

dv5-1054tx here which is HP codespeak for au T9400 + 9600M GT, 3GB, 320GB variant.

Late spring, early summer ambients around 27~30C at the moment. 28C right now Dec 1st, first day of what looks like it's going to be a hot summer.

I run mine sitting on a Cooler Master NotePal Infinite running fan speed 3 when I'm gaming. The NotePal also elevates the front of the laptop about 8deg.

Surfing and general use, CPUID HW Monitor reports today's temps;
CPU 41C
GPU 48C (unusually high today, but I have been gaming all morning with it)
HDD 45C

Gaming (peak values) today, which are fairly consistent in this weather;
CPU 71C/73C C1/C1
GPU 79C
HDD 49C

That's pretty normal +/- a degree for CPU and GPU gaming temps, HDD temps today are a little higher (2 ~3C) than they normally average for 28 ambient.

Those gaming figures are for Company of Heroes Opposing Fronts 1v1 multiplayer online and 1v1 skirmish with CPU playing expert AI.