N73 overheating (?)

Hi,
I have my N73 laptop for a month now. It´s a i7 720QM version, 425M graphic card.
I´ve compared the temperatures with other N73 users and it seems like idle and low load temperatures are about 5 degrees more than other N73 pieces.
idle - 43-53°C
under low load - 48- 60 °C

that seems alright but:
under high load - topped 92°C

ambient temperature is about 21°C

It´s all a bit strange:
-I´ve tried the Prime 95 for an hour, and it did not exceed 80°C
-when I was rendering (Adobe premiere CS5, with cuda hack), it did about 83°C
-but the oddest thing is, playing Half life 2, after 5 minutes, it peaked 90°C degrees, and today, even 92°C.

I´ve read that max temperature with these i7 is 100°C but, clearly, 92 playing 8 year old game is not OK!

So, is this ok, or should I try something to determine if it´s not?
I´ll try to blow the fan with compressed air and if that doesn´t work, I don´t know what to do, because it´s pretty hard to prove, that something is not ok to the service.
I use Core temp for measuring. Laptop was on a flat table.

PS: is there a way to undervolt the CPU like it could be done with Notebook hardware control?

Thanks everyone.
D.K.

 

repaste the cpu.

 

It´ll void the warranty

 

I don't understand, are those the CPU temps or the GPU ones?

 

I meant CPU temperature,
I´ve only started to monitor the GPU temperature today.

But this CPU overheating problem apperas when both CPU ang GPU are working hard.
If it´s only the CPU heavy computing (prime 95) I won´t get over 80. If it´s CPU and a bit of GPU computing, its about 85 (rendering a video). But the Half life 2 (which obviously only uses one CPU core and is about 8 years old...) makes the CPU temp raise to 92°C... that is very strange.

That´s what I meant Sory if it´s not clear.

EDIT: I´ve just tried the 3DMark 2011 and:
GPU max - 61
CPU max - 80
What´s with the friggin HL2?

 

2 things :
- what was your score?
- Perhaps the the heatsink is not working properly by not cooling down both the northbridge and the CPU so when the CPU starts to really get hot the hot gets transferred to the GPU therefore heating them both?

 

Exactly my logic

-The score was not too high, about 860 points, and the benchmark was unwatchable, 4-8 fps

The thing I wanted to know, if these temps are ok for an i7 or not. But WHY HL2? Every other game is ok.

Last time I played th HL2:
CPU - 90°C max (Core temp)
GPU - 71°C max (realtemp)

Damn, I´m affraid I´ll have to send it to to get it fixed. But there´s no way I can prove it´s overheating, since 100°C is the max for i7 and 92 is (quite a lot, but) not enough

Or is it ok and I´m being a main hysterical soap opera woman character?

 

Don't worry! We will try to fix ya Well, if you are thinking to RMA it, then you souldn't open it and put some paste on it.


Edit : facepalm... I forgot to ask you, did you clean the vents with compessed air?

 

Not yet, I will do that, definately. Fingers crossed