Clevo M860TU QX9300, Temp high?

Hello, i just recently replaced my P8600 with an QX9300, the installation went great except the temps i get are really high, idle is about 50C-55C hits 60C-65C when i watch a video on youtube or watch a show on justin.tv and if i am playing a game like BF:BC2 it hits 80C-90C, the funny thing is I was able to run BF:BC2 with my P8600 just fine but since i got this QX9300 the framerate drops alot, is that a GPU (75C-85C temp) or a CPU issue? Are these temps normal for that CPU? I really hate the fan, the speed keeps changing every 10 seconds. If i were to buy a laptop cooler (ZM-NC1000?) would i see a good drop in the temps? or should i just put the P8600 back in?

Thanks,
Bryan

 

Did you install the heat sink correctly? Did you clean out the old thermal paste and apply new thermal paste? Is the thermal paste applied correctly? Have you tried cleaning out the vents with compressed air to dislodge any dust?

On top of all that, get a cooler.

 

hmmm from my experience you shouldnt get temps much higher than 65C when only the CPU is stressed

any temperature higher than 60-65C should be caused by the GPU (CPU and GPU share the same heatsink)... this means that if your GPU reaches 85C you can expect your CPU to also reach 85C (after 30 minutes or so)

so it would seem that the temps you are reporting are not that extreme... the only one that i would be worried about is the 50-55C idle. is your room temperature really high?

cleaning your fan, re-applying thermal paste and getting a cooler are very good advices

 

the room temp is kinda cool, hopefully if i buy a laptop cooler it will help, because the games i play are unplayable now I had better performance on my other CPU than the QX9300. Do you think the ZM-NC1000 is a good cooler? can't seem to find any other 15' coolers.

 

Which method did you use for applying the thermal paste to the QX9300?

 

Remove the CPU and GPU again, clean both and repaste with MX3 or another good thermal paste. It sounds like either component was not done correctly.

When I installed the QX9300 in the passed, I used the line method, in fact I used this method for both the CPU and the GPU and my temps were fine with the CPU idle around 40-45C. Even after playing GTA IV for hours, the CPU on most Cores wouldn't go beyond 80C.

A cooler is not the answer because the root of the problem lies elsewhere. You are most likely getting performance problems because the CPU is downclocking to cool itself before it reaches danger levels.