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    Dell L70X2 running way too hot

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by junglebungle, Jan 17, 2012.

  1. junglebungle

    junglebungle Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello

    I've got a Dell XPS 17, but really unhappy with the temps in games, I get about 98c on the CPU!

    On less demanding games such as Counter Strike Source! surely this isn't normal?

    I've dismantled the laptop and cleaned the old termal paste off and applied Arctic Silver 5 on CPU and GPU as well.....

    Only had it a week, everything else is fine, temps are fine when doing normal stuff it's just games.

    Regards
     
    junglebungle, Jan 17, 2012
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    What software do you use for temps? I could download and have a look for myself and report back.
     
    Harry1994, Jan 17, 2012
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  3. junglebungle

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    HWMonitor, Real Temp.
     
    junglebungle, Jan 17, 2012
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    Valve source games are very cpu intensive but still that temp is too hot. Did you apply the paste correctly? What temps were you getting before?
     
    Sam_A_1992, Jan 17, 2012
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    and when you did the re-paste did you remove the fans and clean them out ?
     
    dave-p, Jan 17, 2012
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    I've only had the laptop a week the fans were clean as it's brand new....

    I did the repaste correctly yes, Used arctic clean and prep on the cpu and gpu, used a pea size amount of AS5 and spreaded with a credit card.

    Everygame I play it's the same...

    I was getting high temps before with the dell supplied paste but surely this shouldn't be like this !!
     
    junglebungle, Jan 17, 2012
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    no it shouldn't be sitting @ 98 C that's for sure.

    Something is wrong there.

    either the repaste is wrong, or the heat pipe assy is off, Thermal Pad is missing, or the fans are blocked. something.
     
    dave-p, Jan 18, 2012
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    Mine was running at 95 when I first started using it...playing Torchlight. I've now disabled turbo and rarely use the nvidia card and the temps are between 78 and 85 max playing torchlight

    I didnt buy this to play 3d games though so I'm not too bummed about keeping things cooler by turning things down/off.
     
    therockfrog, Jan 18, 2012
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