Gaming Temp

Whats your temp during gaming?

Min:
Max:
Average:

mine is around 70-78 now
bottom gets really hot
is this normal

 

Before having a laptop cooler (in game or not, I notice temp aren't much different):
Min: 55-60C
Avg: 60-70C
Max: 75-83C

Have a laptop cooler (not in game):
Min: 46-51C
Avg: 55-62C
Max: 65-68C

Have a laptop cooler (while in game, such as GTA V, Battlefield 4 or/and Dota 2 etc with all setting max out except for AO, AA, Post FX, and Motion Blur):
Min: 51-55C
Avg: 60-68C
Max: 69-75C

However I notice the temp (in game only) stay max out only for around 15 sec then it goes back to the average, the only reason i can give is that, I notice whenever it hit ~75C the fan seem to kick in hard then the temp started to drop to around 65C then fan stop and stay at the average temp for around 5-10 mins or so then the process repeat over again.

 

It's totally normal. Anything beyond 88C is concerning

 

Beyond 88C on GPU or CPU, or both?

Thanks!

 

Both (I guess), for me anything beyond 85C is concerning, 88C would be alarming.

 

What if the temperature at home are 4-5 degrees higher when you gaming?

 

What do you mean by that? Do you mean temperature while not in game? Or the ambient temperature?

 

If the ambient temperature home are 4-5 degrees higher than normally when you gaming.
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Does anyone know a good way to increase fan speed to reduce temperatures? I tried HWInfo64, but the button to control the fans doesn't show up in the sensors window. I also tried SpeedFan, but the program couldn't detect any fans.

 

the only way at the moment is to use A00 bios, better temps because fan runs faster

 

I use A00, but I still think the fan should run faster in the 50-70 degree range for CPU and GPU. Anything above 50 Celsius, I feel the heat coming from the keyboard . The sweat from my hands shows up on the rubber palm rest.

 

I'm using the A03 driver, though I haven't had any temp issues so far just like on A02. My gaming temps are almost always below 80. Amazing temperatures. And my laptop has yet to use the fans at 100%. So while gaming the fans never ran 100%.

I'm very satisfied with this laptop its temperatures. It has a fairly east room for overclocking my gpu

And of course the above temperatures I mentioned are CPU temps.

 

I believe my fans run at max speed when I run 3dMark 11 or play GTA V on maximum settings. I wish they would always run fast as I prefer noise to heat. Until someone finds a way to tweak the fan profiles, I must get a laptop cooler.

 

When I got my laptop there already was the A02 bios, so I immediately installed that one after a clean install of my OS. I did try a few weeks ago version A00, and that one has a much more sensitive fans profile. If I can recall myself I did get a full speed on that one and my temperatures being strictly below 75°C

The only times when I'm sure the fans ran at 100% is when I flash my bios to a different version. Since then the fans are forced to run on 100% since the bios is being updated, no fan profile information is accessible. In that case the fans run at 100% to make sure heat is the least of their concerns when updating the bios version.

Though on 100% it does get very loud.

 

Although the fans are running maximum speed during maximum load, this is not really the max speed of the fans... Fans run only the maximum speed during bios flashing. Totally pointless to not let the fans go the the max speed they are intended during normal heavy use. What's the point in this? Is it better that hardware throttled because fans do not cool sufficiently and only saves the life of the fans but not the hardware? Dell in a nutshell.