question about heat of wd3200bevt or bekt in laptop

i have a dv4t and the existing fujitsu 250gb hdd is running too hot. i am considering upgrading the hard drive to one of the two on the top. can any of you with one of those two hdd's in your dv4t, dv5t, etc? tell me how hot the left palmrest gets? thanks

 

are you sure it's the drive that's running hot and not the system itself? the smaller the laptop, the warmer the internal components get. if you look around on the hp forums, you'll see that people with smaller hp's - dv4t, dv5t - many, many of them have temperature related concerns and issues.

download hwmonitor - it's a tool that will show you temps of most of the components in your laptop - the motherboard, the cpu, the gpu, etc.

this way, you can pinpoint what is causing the temps to get so high. some people have underclocked their machines and this generates less heat as well.

as for the palmrest, this issue is across all the hp notebooks since the hard drive is directly beneath the wrist rest area. having my machine on and simply surfing the net, the wrist rest area gets a little warm and it becomes much warmer when gaming. yesterday i played unreal 3 for about an hour and my drive was up to 40C. my GPU got to the highest i've ever seen it - 78C - but i think that's bc the room i was in was quite warm as well. previously, my gpu had almost never surpassed the 72C mark - and that's when i am gaming in a cooler room.

gl.

 

no the cpu and the video card are not overheating and for some reason the fujitsu drive that this computer came with doesn't have a temp sensor. i am pretty sure it's the hard drive becuae the hard drive area will sometimes get too hot to even touch.

 

gotcha - the drive that came in my dv7t also didnt have a temp sensor. i went from having dual 320gb western digital drives to having dual 500gb western digital drives and for some reason, i feel that my newer 500gb drives are running much cooler than the 320s..... i dont know why and i havent tested both, but the machine seems to run much quieter and cooler now than before...

 

so you're two 320gb hdd's didn't have a temp sensor too? were those the wd3200bevt or wd3200bekt? what drive came with your laptop? the one in my laptop was a fujitsu. i remembered reading in the dv4t thread about a year ago when i got my laptop that these ran hotter then the western digital 320 gb that i also could've gotten the laptop with.