Temperature issue on my Dell

Recently I have bought two Dell E4300 and I'm experiencing an overheating on the left part of the notebook, just below the hard disk slot.

Is it normal or it is really an issue ?

Monitoring the hdd and cpu temperature I probed 44 degree for hd and a span of 50/60 for what about both cpu cores.

What about ?

 

Those temps don't really look anything out of the ordinary... are these load temps or idle temps or what?

 

These are the temps showed after some hourse of usage.

I'm been impressed from the particular overheating on the left side.

On my HP there weren't similar hot areas, below the notebook.

 

That would be around the heatsink area, and I would be more worried if it wasn't hot. Since the chassis is made of magnesium alloy metal, it will dissipate heat better than plastic (which just traps heat inside).

 

But this fact for me is rather annying just after a couple of hours.
Typing with a so hot left surface is not comfortable...

 

Have you cleaned out the heatsink and re-greased the CPU? This will probably help with reducing temperatures.

 

No, I thank that for a so recent laptop (ex demo) a similar thing was not needed.

 

Replacing the grease will always help. It's the first thing I do for every system I get, and even on new systems, the OEM stuff is often hard and caked.

 

I'm monitoring the cpu and hdd temperatures using some apps like core-temp and CrystalDisk.

Is it normal that as soon as I start browsing with a bunch of open tabs (firefox), included some websites with flash, the cpu cores temps go up to 53/55 Celsius degrees ?

 

Temperatures for mine are typically between 110F to 140F, so yes, that is normal. I've re-greased the CPU and don't use any software tweaks.