Too Hot?

Shadows1990 · 9 Jun 2008 at 19:19

My 2 year old Dell D610 gets incredibly hot when performing heavy tasks such as Gaming and Media conversion.

Under heavy load, here's a guide to how hot it gets:
The CPU easily reaches 85 degrees Celsius
The GPU gets to about 67.
The Memory gets to 65.
The Chipset gets to 67.
The Hard Drive gets to about 49.

Is this really too hot?

The laptop is running XP Pro SP3, with Speedstep enabled and the power setting on Laptop.
It's always placed on a wooden desk, with plenty of airflow.

beermonster · 9 Jun 2008 at 19:49

providing its actually blowing hot air out the exhaust and its not blocked, which it could be after 2 years, it should be fine.

Shadows1990 · 9 Jun 2008 at 20:29

I've cleaned the fan on many occasions, the most recent being only 3 weeks ago.
I'm just hoping your right about it being OK, seeing as most electronics will suffer when they get even close to 85C lol.

beermonster · 9 Jun 2008 at 21:44

if you run a bench test and then stop it does the temps drop significantly? this would indicate the heatsink is doing its job, i would only be worried if no hot air is being vented, the chasis on most laptops are metal of some sort and have shielding that will disapate heat as best it can so it will feel like the entire laptop is hot, this weather doesnt help either, i run a yate loon cooler pad on mine as it keeps the base and palm rest cool also.

Shadows1990 · 9 Jun 2008 at 21:46

Yeah, I was pretty sure the heatsink was OK, mainly because of the drop in temperature when not in use.
How much of a temperature drop did you get from your laptop cooler, if you don't mind me asking?

beermonster · 9 Jun 2008 at 22:13

i dont think it would make much diference to actual cpu temps i didnt measure it but the casing without it would get quite hot and with it is much much cooler, i guess it stops the heat building up, also when using it on your lap or in bed your not blocking the vents it just powers of the usb and isnt too noisy either.

fish99 · 10 Jun 2008 at 11:28

It should start crashing long before it breaks I would think. CPU/video/hard-drive temps look normal, dunno about chipset/ram since I've never checked mine.

Shadows1990 said:
I've cleaned the fan on many occasions, the most recent being only 3 weeks ago.
I'm just hoping your right about it being OK, seeing as most electronics will suffer when they get even close to 85C lol.

I know most desktop video card chips have a thermal shutdown temp of about 120 degrees, and regularly run up to 80 degrees with the stock cooler. So it wouldn't be correct to say 85 degrees is the point where all chips get damaged.

beermonster · 10 Jun 2008 at 15:21

yep 120 degrees for that particular chip also, so should be ok.

Shadows1990 · 10 Jun 2008 at 18:34

Aww, thanks for clearing that up for me.
It's still pretty funny to hear that Desktop users have their PC's shutdown at roughly 65C xD

waveydave79 · 13 Jun 2008 at 13:17

Shadows1990 said:
My 2 year old Dell D610 gets incredibly hot when performing heavy tasks such as Gaming and Media conversion.

Under heavy load, here's a guide to how hot it gets:
The CPU easily reaches 85 degrees Celsius
The GPU gets to about 67.
The Memory gets to 65.
The Chipset gets to 67.
The Hard Drive gets to about 49.

Is this really too hot?

The laptop is running XP Pro SP3, with Speedstep enabled and the power setting on Laptop.
It's always placed on a wooden desk, with plenty of airflow.

My Toshiba which is simailair to this does exactly the same, this is with both cores under 85% load using the intel test tool. As long as it doesnt turn itself off your fine.