Is it normal for this laptop to get so warm?

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Hi guys,

I bought a laptop about 3 days ago, the Dell Inspiron 7559.

Specs:
Intel core i7-6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
8gb RAM
nVidia GEforce GTX 960m

I am very happy with it, however I have noticed that it is heating up quite a bit especially when I play games. I know this is normal to an extent, however, take now for example, I have 4 tabs open on google chrome and it is plugged into AC and that's it. On SpeedFan my current temps are:

GPU 0c
HD0 41C
Temp1 28C
Temp2 30C
Core 0 50C
Core 1 50C
Core 2 50C
Core 4 50C


I am a little worried that this is on the high side, considering I am barely doing anything. The laptop is inclined and I live in UK (room temp at the moment is 20C) - the heat only exists at the centre of the laptop. The area where the fans are located are cooler. Is this normal??

Edit: I have also updated all of my drivers, and the program running all the time is usually mcAfee
 
Hello and welcome the forums :)

Temps look fine, laptop parts tend to have a higher thermal threshold compared to desktop counter parts.

Don't be surprised if see temps in the 80's.
 
Thank you guys. Currently I am playing Brothers on Steam and the temps are:

Well everything is the same except the 4 cores are 3 degrees hotter.

Do you recommend getting a cooling fan to place under the laptop?
 
I have never used one before, as your temps are well within limits I would not personally worry, belongs your laptop space around it whilst playing.
 
Those temp are perfectly fine.

Your laptop has a proper quad-core CPU with 4 hyper-thread and a 960M GPU (same spec as my laptop...granted mine is an Asus). You should be worried more if under load it is not heating up and your exhaust is not chucking out lots of heat :p
 
Laptop in my sig IIRC (been awhile since I actually looked at temps) idles around 40C (depending on fan profile) and can get upto around 76C in gaming. It isn't unusual for a laptop to run a little warmer than a desktop CPU.
 
It's not uncommon for laptops to sit at even 80+ degrees under continuous load. I would expect temps a little bit lower considering the power savings in more modern parts, but the values you're seeing look fine.
 
kaku said:
It's not uncommon for laptops to sit at even 80+ degrees under continuous load. I would expect temps a little bit lower considering the power savings in more modern parts, but the values you're seeing look fine.
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It might have been doing an antivirus scan because now and for the past 20 minutes everything has been around 33 degrees
 
By coincidence I just updated my post about the HP Pavilion on a similar subject. Anything graphics intensive and it is running very hot, which is not so much the problem as the wretched fan noise while it tries to cool itself. So it does seem normal for modern laptops to exhibit this trait (unfortunately). With Dell as I have to do with HP, maybe worth checking what background processes are running by default and putting extra load on the CPU and kill them in Program Manager - the exception being Cortana which switches itself back on as soon as you disable it.
 
Vern1961 said:
By coincidence I just updated my post about the HP Pavilion on a similar subject. Anything graphics intensive and it is running very hot, which is not so much the problem as the wretched fan noise while it tries to cool itself. So it does seem normal for modern laptops to exhibit this trait (unfortunately). With Dell as I have to do with HP, maybe worth checking what background processes are running by default and putting extra load on the CPU and kill them in Program Manager - the exception being Cortana which switches itself back on as soon as you disable it.
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Hi there, funny you should say that.

The first time I opened the laptop, I noticed that the CPU was always around the 10% mark as well as the memory always being a minimum of 28% usage.

Things like OneDrive, Dropbox and McAfee were (and still are) adding to that.

There are a lot of strange background processes running that I did not have with Windows 7 so not sure if they're exclusively a Windows 10 thing.

Is it just a case of googling each process and eliminating unnecessary ones?
 
Friezy said:
Hi guys,

I bought a laptop about 3 days ago, the Dell Inspiron 7559.

Specs:
Intel core i7-6700HQ @ 2.60GHz
8gb RAM
nVidia GEforce GTX 960m

I am very happy with it, however I have noticed that it is heating up quite a bit especially when I play games. I know this is normal to an extent, however, take now for example, I have 4 tabs open on google chrome and it is plugged into AC and that's it. On SpeedFan my current temps are:

GPU 0c
HD0 41C
Temp1 28C
Temp2 30C
Core 0 50C
Core 1 50C
Core 2 50C
Core 4 50C


I am a little worried that this is on the high side, considering I am barely doing anything. The laptop is inclined and I live in UK (room temp at the moment is 20C) - the heat only exists at the centre of the laptop. The area where the fans are located are cooler. Is this normal??

Edit: I have also updated all of my drivers, and the program running all the time is usually mcAfee
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Laptops can get more toasty when connected to power supply because you likely enter a mode which is more performance focused.

Higher voltages and frequencies are available to you at all times.

It's something I've noticed with the standard Dell Power Manager.

When off the power supply runs a lot cooler.

Obviously if you are running games etc. it will run hot, but you aren't surprised with that. It's when you are browsing, watching videos etc. it gets unnecessarily warm with standard power management modes.
 
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