ACPI temp hit 114c!

my m1530's ACPI temps just hit 114c... the other day it hit 120c. I dont know why the computer hasnt shut down, perhaps hwmonitor is registering incorrect temps?

eitherway, I was looking for guides on replacing the thermal pad on the northbridge with something that is better with heat transfer. I know that the m1330 has the copper mod, but I dont know if theres anything like that for the m1530.

Can someone please point me to a thread that has some sorta guide for replacing the thermal pad with something more useful? as for the cpu and the gpu, i plan on buying some artic silver ASAP.

BTW, those temps i put up are WITH a zalman laptop cooler in use...

 

I'd take that number with a grain of salt. Intel locates their core temperature sensors on the hottest spots on the core. As heat leaves the core, it dissipates through the heatsink and decreases. Your peak core temperatures are between 80C and 82C which is completely normal for a laptop. What CPU model do you have? Intel sets the thermal shut down temperature of their mobile CPUs between 125C and 130C so you are still about 45C away from the Intel designed thermal shutdown temperature. No worries.

 

my laptop is a m1530.... it ran much colder in the past, and now its running like a toaster under intense gaming.....

 

You may want to clean out the fan/heatsink.

 

Your laptop being an M1530 doesn't tell me what CPU you have inside it. Try running CPU-Z to find that info.

Have you tried under volting your CPU. That can drop 20C out of a laptop at full load and can make a big difference. Some newer games are able to work both the CPU and GPU much harder than older games could. If you are playing the same game and temperatures have gone way up then it would be a good idea to take your laptop apart and clean it out and perhaps even redo the thermal paste for the CPU and GPU.