Laptop temperatures too high?

[Cbstiles]

Hi, I originally posted this in the mobile computing section but didnt have any luck with responses there. I hope nobody minds my reposting it here:

Hey, I play a fair amount of games on my laptop and recently after playing a game I caught both my cpu and harddrive running at pretty high temperatures. I used Everest and copied the temps and they were as follows;

Field Value
Sensor Properties
Sensor Type HDD

Temperatures
CPU 83 °C (181 °F)
Seagate ST9160821AS 43 °C (109 °F)

Im not sure if its normal or not for temperatures to get that high during game play. Is it okay for the temperatures to be that high? I'm definetly considering a cooling pad; given those temps would it be a good investment? Any information about these things would be greatly appriciated. Thank you very much.

Edit:

Interestingly, after a night with the laptop in sleep mode Everest still read the same temperature for the CPU, but the harddrive had gone back down to room temperature..

[DeathWish187]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cbstiles

Temperatures
CPU 83 °C (181 °F)

And I was scared my gfx cards were gonna blow up at 150 °F.

[KarmaKiller]

Yeah, that's pretty hot for your CPU. I'm not to good with lappy's, so I'll let some one else handle that.
But anything you can do right now to cool it down, do it.
Is it still under manufacture warranty? If so, I'd get on the horn with them.

[ZeR0]

Surprisingly that's not uncommon for laptop CPUs. You really didn't specify what your CPU was, but if it's Pentium that doesn't surprise me.

Laptop CPUs (for obvious reasons - primarily being size of fan and a case vs. a chasis) run much hotter than desktop CPUs and are designed to do so. After a FULL load of gaming, 85C is a bit higher but not THAT rare or what I'd consider a huge problem. A lot of laptops can idle low to mid 70s, and can operate perfectly in the 90s.

To fully answer your question, I'll need to know:

1) What CPU brand/model?
2) What are all of your system specs?
3) What is the temperature at idle?
4) What tool are you using to read the temperature (include version if you can)?

Also, it may be worthwhile to call the manufacturer anyway and ask as someone else suggested. Never hurts =)

[Cbstiles]

Hey KarmaKiller; yeah, I currently have plans to call up Dell soon and ask them about the temps and a few other things. Fortunatly its still under warrently in case there are any problems.

As for the info you requested ZeR0:

1) My CPU is a Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz

2) I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 with:
- 2GB Ram
- NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT
- Seagate ATA 160 Gig Harddrive (having trouble finding the speed)
I'm not sure if those specs are useful or not; what other specs would be helpful?

3) Right now my CPU temperature is 25°C (77°F) and my Harddrive temp is 42° C (108°F). I havent really been doing anything too intensive since its been turned on (other than tracking weather via IE and Google Earth) and I turned it on about 4 hours ago.

4) I am using EVEREST Home Edition version 2.20.405.

Please let me know if there is any other information that would be useful. Thanks alot for your help.

Edit:

I've had it idling for a while longer now and the CPU temp. remains the same but the harddrive temp. went down to 35°C (95°F).

[Rootstonian]

That does seem a tad hot, but you've got a decent GPU in there, hard drive is running, CD may be running, battery could be in charging, LCD is chugging away. A lot of heat going on in there with not much way to cool it fan-wise.

If you worried about and when you game, you are on a desk, you could try to raise the lappy off the desktop a bit to let some air flow underneath. A small desk fan pushing some air around couldn't hurt either!

[Cbstiles]

I think i might just try that, thank you.

[pullmyfoot]

Or you could get one of those laptop coolers

The QuadCooler Laptop Cooler
NZXT Cryo LX USB Laptop Cooler (2007) - Review, Specs, Prices

[ZeR0]

So your laptop idles at 25-30C and goes up to 70C on gaming?

[pullmyfoot]

dude your a little late man