P300 heat problems?

I'm seriously thinking about getting a p300, but since I've been hearing about heat issues with the 8600 as well as heat issues with the p300, I'm a little worried.
Has anyone had any problems regarding heat (overheating, shortened lifespan, etc.).

Thanks.

 

From my point of view my P300 usually doesn't get very hot inside. As the p300 offers the possibility to influence the behavior of the fan I would say you can prevent your p300 from getting too hot. Using it under heavy load in the silent mode is obviously not a good idea for example.
So I usually activate the "cool" mode when I stress the p300 with games etc.
As the cooling is quite good for a subnotebook I am even able to overclock the 8600GS to a certain degree and the temperatures still stays on a reasonable level. (during gaming (Rainbow Six Vegas 2 / C&C3) my overclocked 8600GS gets about 72-75°C hot).

Regular variations in temperature are the reason for the bad Nvidia cards to take damage. As you can directly influence the fan behavior I would guess that the p300 is less threatened by a GPU failure than other notebooks.


saint

 

Well, that sounds pretty good. I've also been looking around and haven't found any complaints. I guess I'll be going with this beast then.

 

you won't regret it

 

No heat issues with me..

 

Under clocking the cpu also helps got my cpu to 30 idle and 40 full load and .9500V T8100

 

Unfortunately i don't have these games to verify your temps on my p300. What i experienced is gpu peaks of 95 to 96 degrees celsius when playing gta san andreas, what i considered to be too high for me to feel comfortable. And you also did overclock it? I just got me a zalman cooling pad which i use when gaming. This results in peaks of 80 degrees celsius, which is way way way better than i expected btw. But still, i'm wondering what may be the cause for these different experiences???

 

All I know is that my computer is pretty hot when I touch the bottom while playing halo combat evolved.

I'm not sure if that's too hot or not.

What is a safe level of heat?

 

I'm not sure, i think this gpu family dies at 105 degrees and on other laptops it is clocked down when at 95 degrees. I did not get these values from any official source but from users. They could be wrong and one also cannot be sure if these apply to the p300 with the 8600m gs too.

 

I second Peterelfmeter's Temperature readings - when playing World of Warcraft, temperatures would regularly go up to 95 to 96 degrees Celsius for the GPU (using "Speedfan" to check). I wrote a short macro with which the FPS are capped at 30 FPS which is enough for more or less smooth gaming -> temperatures now hovering at 75-80 which I presume ok.
Will next try to remove the framerate capping and throttle the GPU Speed and GPU-RAM speed manually to see how it works. Am a bit worried about the longevity of my notebook :-/.
Heat is also a problem for the CPU: when rendering images the CPU got to 98° - pretty much shocked me.
But: I have to mention, that this was not always so - temperatures were usually around 70-80 during WoW (then again it might now be due to upgraded -> tougher graphics in WoW).
I will "disassemble" my P300 to the point where I can clean the CPU fan and cooling parts of the GPU - I guess that only a slightly reduced airflow due to dust etc. could lead to heat problems in this really tightly built laptop (I now own it over a year with pretty much several hours of daily use - loved it from day 1 and still loving it!). Will keep you updated about the cleaning -> temperature results.

 

It heats, but never affect the internal compomnents nor the performance !! its designed like this ! you have 3 fan speed to choose from !