X201 Load Temperatures

Anyone else here have rather extreme temperatures under high load with the X201?
I was torture testing mine with prime95 out of curiosity as it's new to me, and it peaks at about 95C, sometimes dancing up to 98C for a few seconds. This seems awful close to the auto-shutdown max of 100C, so it concerns me as to whether it's a normal temperature for a completely maxed out CPU. It did run like that for about an hour without shutting down, but, it's still awful hot. Idle temps are around 48-52C for reference.

 

My now gone X201 with an i5-560M was like 85C full load, idle would depend on the manual fan setting I put in tpfancontrol. 26.5C ambient room temperature. Have you cleaned out your cooling system, fan?

 

I haven't cleaned it out; I'll try going at it with a can of air. The 95C load is without any manual fan control, the fan never seems to go above 4200 RPM or so. If i use tpfancontrol or something similar to change the fan speed to maximum (speed 64), it will cool down to about 85C, but I haven't been able to get the fan to do this without intervention.
I can remember a similar situation on my X40, it would often get worryingly hot when compiling something, but the BIOS would never engage the fan to maximum.

 

it wouldn't surprise me with the first generation i core cpu.

 

Which CPU do you have in your X201? Even my E6410's i3-380M was like high 40's idle, and medium/full load would have heat spewing out the heatvent. My T410s was the worst with a i5-520M, it was like 55 idle with 0 fan with tpfancontrol. If I jacked it up to 3-4 speed I would get like 48C idle. Full blast playing Flash games easily brought it up to high 70's, low 80's.

 

this one has an i5-540M. dead idle uses 0 fan, and under normal use it isn't very hot at all. that's probably just because it's fast enough that nothing outside of prime95 or multiple intensive processes can really tax the CPU. for example dwarf fortress with 150 dwarves only gets it up to about 70C or so, with the turbo at 3ghz. the hottest i've got it outside of prime95 is running video chat and dwarf fortress simultaneously. i don't mind it running hot really; it's more that i worry about it being so close to a force reboot.
i tried the canned air a bit, it didn't smell dusty when i blew air into the intake, so it wouldn't appear like there's a mat of dust on the outflow or something similar.

 

I'd also vote that your temps are not abnormal. I owned Tsunade's X201 for a few days and did idle/load power/temp tests. I got about the same sort of high 40s/low 50s idle and the same sort of mid/high 80s load.

SB idles significantly cooler, but the load thermals are about the same.

 

i actually had someone perform the same test on a different X201, and they came up with the exact same results independently. so it definitely appears to be a normal temperature.
thanks for all the tips