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    LG A510 disappointing CPU temperature

    Discussion in 'LG' started by run.dll, Dec 14, 2010.

  1. run.dll

    run.dll Notebook Guru

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    Hey guys..

    Yesterday I got myself a LG A510 notebook..
    It seems one of the newest product of LG company and it is not out everywhere..
    The notebook is very fast and very nice in my opinion.. everything was fine until I tested the temperatures of CPU cores under gaming or prime95 and furmark... The results were terrible..
    I am kind of new to this stuff and I want to get your opinion..

    So we have winter and my room is around 25-28 degrees Celcius

    the laptop has i3 370m processor, runs in windows 7 home premium 64 bit.. it has 4gb ram and gt 425m processor..

    I got same results from 3 different CPU monitoring utilies: Realtemp, Coretemp, Speedfan:

    Results:

    I played Dragon Age and Max temperature springed to 86 degrees Celcius.. which is 4 degrees under TJ Max... Average temperature seems to be around 80 degrees Celcius.. Fans are spinning but they seem to react slow... (With another notebook: acer 3820tg the cpu stayed 70 degrees celcius)... So... 86 degrees must be terrible

    I played Call of Duty Black Ops and got same results

    I wanted to try an much older game: Battlestations Midway: temperature was around 77 degrees celcius..

    I decided to run prime95 + furmark and temperatures of both cores reached to 90 degrees celcius within couple of minutes...

    Idle temperature of the CPU seems to be normal varying between 28-40 degrees


    After this results today I brought the notebook immediately to the shop back..they said they ll make tests they also added the notebooks get so warm during gaming... GOD I know this already ! But this gets very HOT ! it is anormal.. it should have stayed at least at 70-75 degrees... why 85 ? almost TJ Max .. and we are in winter..

    So I think I may have a faulty CPU.. or the fans are not working correct.. This notebook is very nice.. its only problem is this overheating.. Do you guys have any opinion ? I am sure the shop will say this computer has no problem and they will give it back to me.. as they mostly do.. and maybe I will send it to LG service.
     
    run.dll, Dec 14, 2010
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  2. Bronsky

    Bronsky Wait and Hope.

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    My guess would be poor assembly. You probably have a small percentage of the thermal paste in actual contact with the CPU heat sink. If LG or your shop changes thermal paste, ask them to put IC Diamond in there. I have had some amazing results using it.
     
    Bronsky, Dec 17, 2010
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