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Vostro 1400 overclocking, its crazy.

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by Zer0N1nja, Aug 9, 2007.

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  1. ChaosKye

    ChaosKye Notebook Consultant

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    Actually I don't know about the accuracy of all these temperature readings.

    I've figured out...

    ATITOOLS, Rivatuner, ntune are all giving me a GPU temp 10 degrees HIGHER than I8kFanGUI's reading for the chipset temperature which is making me question the validity of I8kFanGUI.

    The GPU temperature according to I8kFanGUI never fluctuated much though.

    So either you guys are all getting insanely unsafe temperatures on your chipset/mobo or I just have bad luck and got crappy hardware.

    Did any of you try stressing your system while OC?

    These are the different readings I got under full load

    Stock (400/500) Temperature in C

    ATItool /ntune/ rivatuner
    GPUtemperature = 96

    I8kFanGUI
    GPU 46
    Memory 53
    Chipset 86

    (400/600) Temperature in C

    ATItool /ntune/ rivatuner
    GPUtemperature = 100

    I8kFanGUI
    GPU 48
    Memory 56
    Chipset 90
     
    ChaosKye, Aug 12, 2007
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  2. devilsnight

    devilsnight Notebook Geek

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    so which one tells us the correct temps? because at 98C shouldnt the bottom of my laptop feel the heat? because it doesnt seem hot when i touch it. i ordered some more arctic silver and some more thermal pads, where can i buy a copper shim?
     
    devilsnight, Aug 12, 2007
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  3. devilsnight

    devilsnight Notebook Geek

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    btw my I8kfanGUI does not read my gpu temps, im using windows XP.
     
    devilsnight, Aug 12, 2007
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  4. ChaosKye

    ChaosKye Notebook Consultant

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    Well, my main question is whether other people are getting similar readings to me using different tools. If not, I may call Dell and complain about abnormally high heat even without overclocking because my temps are significantly higher than what you guys were reporting

    /edit

    That could be it....

    maybe something to do w/ readings on XP and Vista. We would need more feedback to be sure of anything though
     
    ChaosKye, Aug 12, 2007
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  5. devilsnight

    devilsnight Notebook Geek

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    ok i got my readings to work.

    under rivatuner (currently running artifact scanner in atitool to stress the card) my temp shows.

    100 C


    under I8kfangui

    my GPU is said to be 40 C, but my Chipset is said to be 90.


    that seems interesting because when i took apart my laptop the intel chipset is cooled very poorly, it has a thermal pad which is connected to the back of the thin later of metal under the keyboard.

    its wierd to see such temp variations. This blows. i dont want my temps to be this high! plus i opened up my comp haha.
     
    devilsnight, Aug 12, 2007
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  6. devilsnight

    devilsnight Notebook Geek

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    any news from anyone? im gonna see if i can apply AS5 to the chipset. If i apply AS5 to the thermal pad inbetween the chipset...will that do better?
     
    devilsnight, Aug 12, 2007
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  7. Rowen

    Rowen Notebook Consultant

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    can I borrow some AS5? heh

    So the GPU reads 46-48C in I8KfanGUI, but the chipset runs almost at 100C? Why the variation? - is the chipset separate from the GPU?
     
    Rowen, Aug 12, 2007
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  8. Administrator

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    Administrator, Aug 12, 2007
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  9. Zer0N1nja

    Zer0N1nja Notebook Consultant

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    I went to bestbuy today and bought a cooling mat, the 52$ one and it definatly keeps the temps down, earlier i was capping at 94c running 550/750 but the new one only went to 86c max and averaged 79c... huge cooling help. I would definatly sugest cooling matt and now i can push this even further.
     
    Zer0N1nja, Aug 12, 2007
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  10. link1313

    link1313 Notebook Virtuoso

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    I really have to re-iterate this is a dumb idea overclocking it to those levels (100% memory overclock etc) when there is no airflow from the GPU to outside the chassis.
     
    link1313, Aug 12, 2007
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