M11X R2 Overheating

Hello,

Whenever I play a game on my M11x R2 the game will start to stutter horribly until I place a fan nearby. I recently got SpeedFan and measured the temps:



This seems really hot compared to others who are getting much lower temps.

All settings are stock, and I have not overclocked. Is there anything I can do to lower the temps?

 

I see nothing wrong here, I got about the same.

EDIT: Altough, I have no stuttering problem.

 

If you're seeing much lower temps, it must be from R1 owners. Mine regularly runs hotter than that and I've had no problems...

 

Some claim (and I agree) speed fan is not acurrate, you have actually higher temps...

And about those temps, I get 75-80°C in the CPU with heavy gaming for 2 hours, GPU around 65°C

Lower temps are because the R1, with the integrated running, and even that is a laptop, is normal

 

What program are you using to measure the temps.

Thanks,
wsnors

 

Hey,

Just recently my temps were reaching into the upper 80's. I called Dell and a technician replaced my heatsink. The idle temps are now high 30's and after gaming, it will stay around the high 60's.

 

What temps do you show with ThrottleStop?

See this post for why you shouldn't be using SpeedFan on the M11x.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-m11x/542967-i-think-my-laptop-overheating.html#post6997196

TJMax for the R1's C2D and the R2's Core iX processors is 105C in both cases.

Here you can see there's a 20C difference between what SF and TS reports.

 

Eh, SpeedFan is what the Tech said was fine so I'll go with his word. That and the stuttering in my games have gone away.

 

AW support rep or on-site tech?

 

If SpeedFan is reporting your Core temperatures 20C less than what ThrottleStop is reporting, SpeedFan is definitely not fine. No wonder the tech recommends SpeedFan. It makes users think that their CPU is running far cooler than it really is.

RealTemp, Core Temp, HW Monitor, AIDA64 and pretty much any other temperature monitoring program will disagree with SpeedFan.

If you have a Core i7-640UM processor, you should be using ThrottleStop to help maximize your performance so you might as well use it to monitor your temperatures too.

 

On-site tech.

I won't be using ThrottleStop.

 

I suppose that's better than a misinformed AW support rep. In any case, glad your issue is fixed.

 

Then you should ask Dell for your money back, because the i-cores in the m11x are useless without it.

 

Obviously you know that's not going to happen. Stop being arrogant.

 

I was just being facetious and informative at the same time. Stop taking what's written on the interweb so seriously.

 

Then you will be doing yourself and your machine a woeful disservice. Why on earth would you willingly cap your M11's performance like that?!?!