The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Dell XPS (2013 model) with huge heat increases recently - worried

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by jubbing, Jan 7, 2015.

  1. jubbing

    jubbing Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    243
    Messages:
    852
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Hi All,

    So I've had my XPS 15 for just over a year, and the warranty ran out November last year (I didn't realize). I had bought it in Australia, then I moved to India permanently shortly after. So i'm without warranty, and I can't extend it living overseas.

    Unfortunately - it's my main work and personal PC so I don't have access to anything else, but recently i've seen some bad stutters in gaming performance (I only really play Dota 2 on my laptop at 1152p resolution). Frame rate usually doesn't have an issue - but recently I felt it getting hotter than recently around the 'WASD' keys - so I downloaded realtemp. What I saw scared me, because my laptop actually touched a max of 95C while gaming! That's extremely dangerous in levels! Generally the cooling on the laptop has been amazing - but now I'm seriously worried.

    Here's a realtemp picture I took today, with just webpages open, and some excel documents (NO gaming):
    realtemp.png

    This could be a disaster for me - do I call Dell and pay up? Do I try and take it apart and try and see what the issue is? Some urgent help would be very much helpful - thanks in advance!
     
    jubbing, Jan 7, 2015
    #1
  2. jubbing

    jubbing Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    243
    Messages:
    852
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Guys, some urgent help please
     
    jubbing, Jan 8, 2015
    #2
  3. theriko

    theriko Ronin

    Reputations:
    1,303
    Messages:
    2,923
    Likes Received:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Were you running it on a hard flat surface?
     
    theriko, Jan 9, 2015
    #3
  4. jubbing

    jubbing Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    243
    Messages:
    852
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Standard glass table, during winter now so it's pretty chilly in my room
     
    jubbing, Jan 9, 2015
    #4