Fan/Temperature Issues: Do you Dock your E6400/6500?

A related question:

Has anyone replaced the thermal pad with a copper pad, and/or added a good thermal paste? It might help the temperatures a lot...

Regarding the original question, docking also increases temperatures for me, around 5º. The fan mostly runs at the slow speed (around 3000 rpm). If I undock, light usage does not turn the fan on.

idle temperatures when undocked (using the laptop's 14-inch screen): CPU 35-40, GPU 50-55

idle temperatures when docked (using 22'' external screen over the docking station's DVI port): CPU 40-45, GPU 55-60

Strangely, whether docked or not even when on idle usage the GPU will occasionally heat up to around 65 (undocked) or 68-70 (docked), and then come back down. Anyone has a clue why this happens?

Any comments on these temperatures? Are your own temperatures higher/lower?

 

Intel X4500HD.

 

Can you provide some more specific info as it relates to this problem?
( I need to make I understand what CPU Throttling is)

 

See this thread and this one

 

Thanks for the links but no one seems to have any answers to this problem other than trying different BIOS versions.

Have there been any more recent updates?

 

nup, i suspect that the issue will be resolved when the US gets into Summer.

I'm in Australia so its summer here and its a real pain when your machine slows to a crawl in 30degC ambient, which realistically isn't that hot.