How Hot - Laptop Temp

mufc802 · 29 Jul 2009 at 20:27

I've had a laptop for more than a year and it always seems to be very hot, unless it's in idle when it's just warm. It's an Acer Aspire 5920g btw.

How hot in general should laptop CPU and GFX be? I downloaded a tool to see the temperatures and the CPU sometimes goes into the 90's/100's - is this normal for a laptop? I know the cooling can't be good as a desktop but this heat is ridiculous!

RJC · 29 Jul 2009 at 20:31

My Dell usualy gets upto 60c before the fan starts, but 90c ~ is little to warm.
Does the heatsink need blowing out and does the start.

Laptop cpu's tend to have a higher thermal design.

mjones1 · 29 Jul 2009 at 20:31

It shouldn't get that hot maybe try opening up, reapply thermal paste and clear the dust inside.

JonJ678 · 29 Jul 2009 at 20:31

That's not great. Laptop core 2 duos are rated up to 100 degrees. Western digital laptop hard drives are rated for up to 55 degrees. Full system spec please

I've just rma'd a laptop that was running the hard drive at 70 centigrade, they replaced the heatsink and fan and now hopefully it'll be ok. I've only got the missus word on it until I see the laptop in person though, she says it feels less hot.

rma'ing it because 'it's vaguely too hot' might not go well, I think it helped my case that I sent them an email from WD stating the thermal specifications for their drives. If it's an Intel processor, its rated fine up to 100.

rodo · 29 Jul 2009 at 20:34

My laptop was overheating a while ago. Thought it would be hard putting on some more paste but was quite easy! In the end it reduced idle temps from 50 to 19 and load temps from ~100 to ~60-70.

mufc802 · 29 Jul 2009 at 21:19

Not that I'm that bothered about the laptop as I'm hoping to get a new desktop PC soon, I was just curious whether this temperature was normal.

My specs are CPU = Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00ghz
2GB Ram
Geforce 8600m GS 256mb

I also disabled vista aero which keeps the graphics temp down.

Darrensen · 29 Jul 2009 at 21:29

My Macbook Pro goes up to high 80's. Idle is around 55.

JonJ678 · 29 Jul 2009 at 21:33

That's a good laptop, I'd take care of it. Suggest you check the hard drive temperature on it, and strip&clean&redo paste or rma if its under warranty

Audigex · 29 Jul 2009 at 22:32

For most laptops
Up to:
25 idle / 50 load is exceptional
35 idle / 70 load is good
45 idle / 80 load is average
55 idle / 90+ load is pushing it
100+ load is going to kill it

Mostly, look at the load temps. If it idles nearly as high as load it's strange, but it's the max temp you need to worry about.

Aruffell · 30 Jul 2009 at 00:07

I know what your problem is. It's an Acer.

Me and someone else i know on this very forum had problems with ours.

Mine is an Aspire 5633WLMI, he was a 5700 series.

I had to buy a new fan for mine. £15 or so from the bay.

As well as a new hard drive, memory and now battery. Other than that, the laptop works lmfao.

Never buy an Acer again. EVER.

Andy

Dox · 30 Jul 2009 at 18:15

I have encountered a few Acers in the past where the cheap thermal compound has gone hard and separated from the CPU reducing the heatsink efficiently it might be worth replacing the compound with fresh.