My M14x has been sitting on a desk with clear airflow for around two hours. It idles around 60 and while I'm browsing the net it's 65-70. This really poses a problem when I want to take it off the charger and take it to class or something. It currently lasts about two hours.
Now that I've got you interested, I think it's a problem with my power plan. I created a plan based off the High Performance plan that is mostly the same settings, but it never turns off (goes to sleep) unless I tell it to. However, I changed all of the 'on battery' settings to the same as the Power Saver plan. Even with the exact same settings, the battery life on the 'Stay On' (that's what I called it) plan is 2 hours. The battery life on the 'Power Saver' plan is around 4 hours.
What's really interesting is if I'm on the 'Power Saver' plan and I switch to 'Stay On' plan (which by the way, the settings are all the same) my CPU temp immediately jumps up 10 degrees. It'll be around 49-50C while I'm browsing on 'Power Saver' and then go to 61-65 pm as soon as I switch 'Stay On'
Does anyone have any idea what's going on?
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I would imagine that on one plan the CPU is allowed to use more percentage, thus being used even harder, thus making more heat.
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High CPU Temps
Discussion in 'Alienware 14 and M14x' started by Mozin321, Jan 16, 2012.