L300D overheating?

Hi, I just bought the Toshiba Satelite L300D. I was checking the temp of the CPU because I felt it was running a little hot, and found it was much higher then anticipated (Idle:60-65 C, light load: ~75 C). The CPU is an Athlon x2 QL-60, and was just wondering if that is too hot or not. I realize it's not a performance machine and it will be a little hotter than some other laptops, but this was much higher than I anticipated. I don't to retuern it if it is in the normal temperature range.

Thanks in adavance.

 

Not great considering my A300 idles at 35C, but then again you get a lot of high end gaming laptops that idle at the same temperature as yours. Maybe you should consider getting a cooling pad or some form of external cooling, as those temperatures aren't that great.

Really, you shouldn't be too worried unless it starts to climb over 85C. And it will automatically shut off at 105C anyway.

 

I'm not sure you can compare AMD to Intel chip temps as they are completely different. My undersatnding is that core 2s are going to have by far the lower temps. I was just wondering if these temps are at all in a normal range.

As and add on to this I ran a Stress test with Everest and left it for ~20 min. And it topped off @74 C, but indicated that the cooling fans had never been turned on. Now I'm new with this laptop and assumed that the fan was just quiet, but maybe it's not running at all.

Does the cpu fan generally make alot of noise on these models?

 

I wouldn't know, because I don't have an L300, but my A300 ramps right up when it gets past 50C, and at 40C the fan usually goes about medium. At 30C, there is practically no fan at all, the only sound I can hear is a steady hum, and it's extremely quiet.

If the fan wasn't running at all, I would think that it would have shut itself off from getting too hot. Maybe that's just the temperature that the laptop is designed to run at.

 

My A300 was defective out of the box. The fan ran very loud all the time. Turns out Toshiba pinched a fan wire during assembly and it was shorting out causing the fan to run continuously. Anyway, my point is if you think it is running too hot you might see about getting it checked out. Maybe the fan was poorly installed, they did not put the heat sink in correctly, missed putting in the thermal paste, etc. It does happen. 60-65 C seems kind of high for idle, although I don't know your model.