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.

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.

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?

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