NP700Z5C high temperatures?

I am casual browsing the NBR forums and these are my temperatures:



Are these normal temperatures? Can someone help me troubleshoot this? Thanks in advance.

 

They are ok.

How long since your last repaste and laptop cleanup?

Might be time to take off the dust and do a repaste.
But nothing to me alarmed with those values

 

I just got the laptop this week. It's basically brand new! I heard normal should be in the range of high 45-50C for most laptops.

 

Still theres nothing for you to worry about.
Not all laptops have the same temperatures, and those are pretty acceptable.
Also if you want to return it, they'll just give you this answer "Brand guarantees that as long as it is below 106º it's normal"

try testing the temperatures during gaming or heavy stress, and see the differences

 

Thanks. I guess this is my first i7 processor laptop, so I was a bit surprised. Going to do some stress testing and see if it shakes.

 

Hey, just wanted to let you know those temps are normal. i have the np700z5c-so1CA (canadian version, exactly the same except with a 1tb hdd (replaced by my 180gb intel 520) and turned into an external usb3 hdd for games and files and what not and a bilingual keyboard. anyways, i digress, they are normal, my cores are between 50 and 57 on my lap while on this site. gpu is between 47-51 also. so i wouldnt worry about it. and if you game it will shoot up to ~90 on the cpu and ~75 (i cant remember the gpu to be honest but 75 sounds about right) but the fans will be loud, not annoyingly loud like some other laptops out there with a high pitched sound, these you only hear the wind so still very tolerable. if you want it to be cooler and quieter while its on ur lap or bed (cuz ive read it gets the air from the keyboard and not just from the bottom, thats why its closed off) you can turn on silent mode and the cpu will throttle down to 1.2ghz (not sure if turbo boost is active in silent mode) instead of the regular 2.3 (plus turbo boost to 3.3) and you can choose the fan profile; auto for on and off operation, and always on for continuous low speed operation, its your pick really. i have mine on auto but then again i dont put it on my bed. I also use silent mode when im in university to save power and last longer, power settings are at the utter minimum they can be and this beast of a computer lasts 9 hours (yeah sounds ridiculous but when im in class and/or doing homework or studying or programming or wtv, i dont need it to be blazing fast, even though it still is when in silent mode) and it doesnt heat up at all.

damn i went on....i freaking love this laptop, really happy i bought it. i guess thats why i wrote all this and stopped myself. so all in all, its amazing and you shouldnt worry about ur temps, they are normal, and dont forget, this is a really thin laptop (for what's packed inside) and idle will be higher than most regular laptops out there cuz we have an i7 and 640m AND its thinner.

so good luck

be happy

and enjoy your new toy

p.s. i created an account just to reply to calm your worries, lol

 

CPU temperatures are primarily determined by the fan operating rules (which are embedded in the BIOS). The effectiveness of the cooling system for a given fan speed increases with an increasing difference above ambient temperature and an idle temperature is OK with me provided the fan is running slowly. The stress tests will tell you if there is a cooling problem. The CPU will automatically start to throttle once its temperature exceeds 95C (that happened under sustained load on my Lenovo T420s).

I would also note that, while heat is bad for electronics life expectancy, repeated hot-cold temperature variations can be even worse (that's what killed the 8600 generation Nvidia GPUs a few years back) so over aggressive cooling under light load is, in my opinion, not desirable.

John

 

Interesting point about the hot-cold temperature variations John.

Thanks for the input jathor--I'm happy you join the forums. You seem to like the laptop a lot. I do too, but of course it's not perfect like the trackpad. :]

 

Had this weird temperature issue with my laptop (NP700z7c, the 17.3" version of your laptop). On Windows 7 the CPU (i7-3615qm) would be stuck at 3 GHz doing nothing and "idle" temps would be 60 C. Once I use Throttlestop to control the CPU frequency the idle temps would still be in the 50s. This was all on Windows 7.

Somehow once I upgraded to Windows 8 the CPU temps....just dropped...a lot. I don't know what went on, but my idle CPU temps in Windows 8, even before using ThrottleStop, were in the low 40s! S pretty much everything I do in Windows 8 is 10 C lower for the CPU than Windows 7.

I replaced the thermal paste with IC Diamond in both situations.

For your situation I see you're using Windows 8. Which is strange.

 

You may want to repaste and check if the CPU is partially covered by the sticker

http://forum.notebookreview.com/sam...ies-7-chronos-np700z5a-disassembly-guide.html

 

Considering it's a samsung you'll probably loose the warranty considering it has a few weeks, and if you go to the store to return it, they'll repaste it, and the temperatures will return the same, and you'll just waste about 3 weeks for that.


Make your choice carefully

As you might end up loosing time for nothing.

"if it ain't broken, don't fix it" i'd say

 

hum...question for you hanime. did you eperience some sort of weird audio bug? i did, 3 times. as soon as something startes playing, a weird "hissing/somewhat high pitched" noise accompanies it and as soon as i pause whatever is playing, it continues by going up louder till it stops a few seconds later. creeped me out at first cuz i didnt know what was going on and thought i was going crazy.

 

Hmm I don't hear anything like that. Could be haunting.