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    Toshiba Satellite P300 Temperature Concerns

    Discussion in 'Toshiba' started by Adam2190, Jan 20, 2011.

  1. Adam2190

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    Over the past few weeks my laptop's temperatures have been going up across the board so i'm going to open it up and clean it out with compressed air tomorrow and may reapply the thermal paste plus i'm going to buy a notebook cooler so i'm hoping that should deal with the heat issues.

    But for the time being i was wondering if these are alarming temperatures.
     

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    You haven't specified if they're load temperatures or idle temperatures.

    If the max temperature there is under light to moderate load, then you should be fine. It's only bad when the 3650 gets to around 90C or above, and the CPU gets to 85C and above.

    Anything under 53C is decent for a hard drive. THRM is a little high but it's not as prone to heat failure, and it also has only a metal bracket with paste on it.

    A regular dust clean out should help things out. I think a repaste for your machine is unnecessary. I only repasted mine for fun, really. Not a huge reduction in temps either. Toshiba must use higher quality paste than I originally thought.
     
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    I should have specified those max temperatures were taken just after it was on full load for a while.
     
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    Those temps look ok. Just keep an eye on it.
     
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    I opened it up today and cleaned it out with compressed air and that alone has dropped the CPU temperature about 20c on full load.

    Although the HDD is still hotter than i would like so i was just wondering if a notebook cooler would cool them down at all considering they have no vents?
     
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    I don't think it would help for hard drive temps. If the P300 is anything like my A300, the hard drive compartment has little to no ventilation even inside the notebook.

    You could go crazy and bore some holes in the hard drive cover and get a cooling pad, but IMO, you don't really need to unless your hard drive gets up to 54C and beyond.
     
    Amnesiac, Jan 25, 2011
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