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series 5 heat issues

Discussion in 'Samsung' started by lewisbfield, Dec 17, 2012.

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im noticing the series 5 ultrabook runs very hot, im running on high performance and i upgraded to 8gb ram is this normal?

lewisbfield, Dec 17, 2012

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John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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It's no an unknown problem. See this thread. However, the first thing I would do is to enable the Samsung Optimized power plan. The High Performance power plan leaves the CPU running at full speed and creates unnecessary heat.

John

John Ratsey, Dec 17, 2012

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eternota Notebook Enthusiast

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My NP530U4C runs between 52C and 60C with samsung optimized power plan, no silent mode at all...( in BIOS: no TURBO CONTROL, but YES the CPU power saving option)

I live in the south of Spain (20C / 35C now in summer)

I had an old 2006 based core duo (not core2duo) that ran @ 35C / 45C even under load (my core duo based laptop also ran @ 1,7 with 2 cores, like this core i5 3317U)

Definitely, this is not the coldest latop in the world...but nothing serious: after 1 hour playing crisis 3 (obviously low details for nvidia GT 620M) it barely reachs 80C / 85C, but again,I thought that in 2013 we would have better power/temperature numbers

eternota, Aug 9, 2013

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