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    Vaio Z Temperature

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Evanescent, May 16, 2009.

  1. Evanescent

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    Anyone know what the normal temperature of the Vaio Z GPU is?
     
    Evanescent, May 16, 2009
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    The range I've seen so far on mine is between 65C and 82C core gpu temp, but I haven't been doing anything incredibly intensive. If you're worried about heat, I highly recommend undervolting your cpu, it won't really affect core GPU temp, but it helps general heat output without affecting performance.

    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=235824
     
    als33, May 16, 2009
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  3. Evanescent

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    Thanks. I already undervolted my CPU. I'm just a little worried about the readings I am getting on my GPU temperature. The lowest I ever get is 54 C.
     
    Evanescent, May 16, 2009
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  4. Qeuqeu

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    Those GPU temps are normal. Don't worry.
     
    Qeuqeu, May 16, 2009
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  5. Evanescent

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    I see. Thanks. At what temps should I be worrying?
     
    Evanescent, May 17, 2009
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  6. SirRobin

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    On my z the temperatures are between 65 Degrees up to 99 Degrees while playing world of warcraft - thats very much i think?
     
    SirRobin, Jul 3, 2009
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    It definately not good for the hardware on the long term, keep in mind that you can actually cook an egg at 99 degrees :D Such laptops are actually not desiged for gaming, especially not for the games that require a lot of hardware performance...
    A friend of mine has an Alienware-Laptop for gaming, and after half a year of intensive gaming you can really see that the performance of his hardware has dropped significantly
     
    testt0r, Jul 12, 2009
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  8. Miyabi

    Miyabi Notebook Evangelist

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    yea, it would affect the hardware performance and not to mention it would be faulty later. mine ranging up to 95, average will be around 88 ~ 90 running games.
    i have cousin who using VAIO CS (NVIDIA 9300m gs). one day the laptop went blank screen after boot up while the system still running. end up for service and the tech claims the gpu is overheating :(

    so with the slim Z, gaming for long hours at 85c+ would certainly bad. oh well.
     
    Miyabi, Jul 12, 2009
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    on normal use, my GPU is rated at 65 and above. My my voltage set at 1.0625 from 1.175. my max CPU temp went from 97 to 85 now.
     
    dinfung, Jul 15, 2009
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  10. SirRobin

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    Today in my hot office i get an temperatur of 106 degrees while playing dawn of war 2 - thats very hot
     
    SirRobin, Jul 16, 2009
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  11. Miyabi

    Miyabi Notebook Evangelist

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    thats hot. ou are using DOX driver? and do you have any bluescreen or shutdown due to overheating of gpu? i notice from your all your post about the temp, that somehow you doesnt have problem like shutting down even the notebook already at the high temp. i wonder hows the durability of inside component of Z due to heat. a cousin of mine just had a CS (NVIDIA 9300gs) getting service due to blank screen, related to gpu.. thats make me worried especially running at 95+ for quite long time..

    btw do you guys always put your notebook on speed mode?
     
    Miyabi, Jul 17, 2009
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  12. SirRobin

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    I´m using the sony driver on my z, made a recovery a few days ago.
    I´ll never had any issues of bluescreens, shutdowns!
     
    SirRobin, Jul 17, 2009
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  13. Miyabi

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    thats nice to hear. i guess Z is a "tough" machine *finger crossed* :X
     
    Miyabi, Jul 18, 2009
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    My Z590 temp spikes up fast when playing hulu full-screen in Speed mode (strangely not a problem in Stamina mode when the GPU is off). In a cool room (68F) on a hard desk surface I will see temps over 100C within 10 minutes or less. Ordinary (static display) browser activity seems to hold the GPU around 88C, CPUs around 60C these temps according to SpeedFan (is there another tool I should use to check the temps?)

    Extended hulu playing at fullscreen will start to stutter as temps pass 105C, and sometimes trigger a no-warning black-screen complete shutdown. Not such a biggie for watching on the notebook itself, just use stamina mode, but a real bummer if you're trying to drive an HDMI monitor (which requires Speed mode to fire up the GPU).

    Calling Sony now to see what their service take is on this, unit is just under a year old, it's not like I'm trying to play Crysis or something.
     
    JoeMerchant, Feb 2, 2010
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    Hi Everybody,

    @Nero_Sparda_04:
    You said you undervolted you Z590? Could you tell me how you did that? I was looking around a few months ago but I couldn't find any working tool to do this... I'd be really interested, as my CPU get above 100C easily when e.g. compiling stuff on both cores, etc... I also experienced the overheat-shutdowns occasionally.

    @JoeMerchant:
    Did you talk to Sony Support? What did they say about the heat problem?

    Best
    Rainer
     
    rvjr, Sep 29, 2010
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  16. blaqprophet

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    well I find a direct correlation between room temp and laptop temp
     
    blaqprophet, Sep 29, 2010
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  17. Achusaysblessyou

    Achusaysblessyou eecs geek ftw :D

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    106 degrees Celsius? o_O my max was 96 in Bad Company 2...
     
    Achusaysblessyou, Sep 29, 2010
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