Laptop temperature

#1

I’ve had my laptop for well over a year. Whenever I use it, the fans start working at full power for some reason and soon after the laptop’s overall temperature often rises up to about 90-95C. Even though this problem so to speak hasn’t had any effects on the usability of the laptop, I’m wondering whether it’s something to be worried about. It never overheats to the extent that it would shut down, and the general speed of processes hasn’t degraded much either during the year I’ve been using it. Here’s a picture of the temperature right now:

FYI, I do keep the laptop on a proper desk.

#2

laptops get hot as shit, theres nothing you can do about it

get a cooling mat if it becomes a problem

#3

what proc? what laptop? any off-board video?

#4

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/product?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&tmp_geoLoc=true&product=4233153

#5

Ah it’s a HP. Lots of their laptops have overheating issues so I’d be careful try to keep it well ventilated, your doing well using it on a desk and if you can, use some compressed air to clear any debris from the fans and such. Other than that yea a cooling mat is about the best you can do, finally using power saving features such as cool and quiet features in the BIOS could help, i used to use a program called RMClock on my laptop to under-clock my CPU to keep temps a bit lower when just browsing the web and such.

#6

My laptop was only a year old before I had similar problems, it would reach 105C when playing Bad Company 2 and get to the point where it’d shut itself off to prevent damage, and this was using it on a desk, with the back propped up with a book for extra ventilation.

Opened her up and found this (which is after I took a massive clump out):

http://img852.imageshack.us/img852/1885/dsc01639z.jpg

If you’re confident taking laptops apart then I’d give it a try, I’ve done it to several overheating laptops and 90% of the time dust is the problem.
After that was done, the max I ever see the temps at is about 60C under heavy load, which is a massive difference.

My topic there see: http://www.moparisthebest.com/smf/index.php/topic,482081.0.html :wink:

Just noticed you have the same gpu as me too, naice :slight_smile:

#7

Speedfan detected 3 fans, yet all three of them don’t spin? At those temperatures, you’d expect them to do their work. So either Speedfan isn’t compatible with those fans, or the fans don’t do anything.

#8

Not sure in this case, but I’ve found with the two laptops that I’ve owned that the fan settings do nothing at all anyway, so yes could be incompatibility.