How hot do you get?

Recently my 7600 has been getting extra hot! The other day it even over heated! I quickly checked to find out what temp I was at... and I was surprised, I was at 70 degrees Celsius! Usually under load it was at most 60, but now even when I play Warcraft 3 it gets very hot. How hot do your 7600s get? Is my gpu fan dusty or something?

 

in a heated room without a lappy cooler my temps got up to 70 and above and subsequent artifacting occured on my 440/366 card. Once i got a vantec lapcool 2, the problem was solved. i would suggest looking into a notebook cooler.

 

Mine on occasion reaches low 70's Celsius, but I've never gotten artifacting. I keep my notebook in a home kept as close to 62F as I can keep it, my desk that its normally on is metal and glass. I keep the notebook on the keyboard tray since I've got other screens and systems, so this makes it easy to tuck the system away. Guess that was more info then needed, but the point was that the keyboard tray is one of the metal items, and its got holes, so I'm pretty sure between the material staying cooler, and the holes, I might have a slight advantage for heat.

 

Have you cleaned out your fan yet since you got your notebook? I clean mine out every 1-2 months. I try to be consistent so that it becomes a habit.

70's doesn't sound too high to me, though. Interesting that it shut down on you.

 

Mine's sitting here at 65 C... processor's only at 45... maybe I should clean the fan/heatsink out again. 70 doesn't strike me as unnaturally hot for heavy gaming. My desktop can get that high sometimes. Before I replaced the graphic card's cooler, it'd hit 90 when I let it do the automated overclock sequence. That was a little scary.

 

Graphics cards naturally run much hotter than regular processors. In my desktop my non overclocked X800 XT PE regularly gets to around 85C under heavy load. This may not be true for laptops seeing as my HEL80 is my first one of any real merit and I'm still learning .

 

I've yet to break 55C for either the cpu or gpu, though I've only really run CS:S, and haven't OC'd.

 

I had mine shut down yesteday evening. Granted it was sitting on my lap so probably not getting the best air flow. Once it would turn back on (10 seconds or so) it was blowing VERY hot air out of the vent.

I would have been curious what it got up to...