My P34W V5 Very High CPU Temps

Got my P34W in yesterday morning and have played with it a little since and so far I am not impressed at all.

Upon starting up the laptop it went straight to windows repair saying my computer crashed and needs repair? I just exited out of it and restarted the computer and everything seemed fine.

The first thing I did was fire up Prime95. I saw an instant 97-98c on two cores, 87-89c on the other two. The fans went to max in levels and didn't take very long for it to do so either. Fans are however nice and not annoying under max speed, no whine just straight up air gushing out. A swissshhhhh sound..

I benchmarked using valley benchmark at 1080P / Ultra / 8x Anti Aliasing settings and saw the same temps on the CPU and 81'c being the max I saw on the GPU.

I will most likely return this laptop and get something else but figured i'd share this experience for anyone potentially interested in buying it. If you guys want, I do have some arctic silver 5 laying around and can try under-volting the CPU/repasting and trying benchmarks again but would only do so if enough people wanted to see if doing those things would help with temps. As of right now I have no intent to do so since I am set on returning it.

Also, any other P34W V5 owners seeing these kind of temps?

 

Two cores at 89 and 2 at 97 mean a bad paste job from the factory.

 

Will slap on some Arctic Silver 5 and report back.

 

After re-paste with AS5 & 0.50mv undervolt, all cores fluctuate from 89-92'c.

GPU drops down mid/high 70s during valley benchmark.

I forgot to mention that with the fans running full tilt, it's hard to hear the game you are playing since the two speakers in the front are not powerful enough to overcome the noise from the fans. Not that the fans are loud but to put it simple the speakers are just not that great of quality. My fit and finish of the case around the laptop is also a bit disappointing. The upper right corner my finger nail catches where the bottom case meets the top. On the whole left side/front of the laptop it's also not aligned and you can visually see it and feel the un-even surface with your hands. Not a big deal but a lot of cheaper laptops don't have alignment issues, so I wouldn't expect a $1000+ laptop to either.

 

I have a p25w that idles at 35 and loads at 65-70. Use it constantly, and it's nearly two years old. I would return yours, but did you buy it from a dealer? Odd that a new laptop has such high temperatures.