HELP! Is something going to blow up?

Installed and played battlefield 1942 on my 8200 when I felt the fan air EXTREMELY hot (Hotter than usual). The fan speed was switching between medium and high speeds.

Within a minute of turning off the game, I noticed the temps drop to 54C, but this was scaring me anyway.

What can I do? I never got SpeedFan to work and I don't want to mess it up.


I was thinking of making my own little cooler, where I have about 6 desktop brushless fans underneath the laptop secured to something, with some slots for air to get in, all hooked to a car battery in parallel lol. I'm sure that would drop the temps a bit.

 

70C is not bad for when you are gaming. you shouldn't be worrying. however, i would say having some sort of cooling device wouldn't hurt.

 

70C isn't bad? But from the sound of it, it's not good either, is it?

How exactly, do the cooling devices work? A bunch of fans blowing towards, away from the laptop?

 

most seem to blow air toward the notebook...some suck air in. 70c is fine for gaming, though if you were idling at that temperature it would be a problem.

 

Yeah it idles at 50C, and usually during a game it would go to 60C, but never 70. When I got the laptop with the "cooler running core duo", I figured I'd be running in th 30's.

 

id say that 70 is quite normal for gaming because gamming requires the clocks to push harder... so its okay...nothing is gonna blow up


P.S: by the way... where did you get that awesome wallpaper?

 

lol go to google and search "flourescence"

 

hehehe thansks!

 

That wallpaper comes from a web site called Digital Blasphemy. Been around for quite a while. Very popular, though not quite my taste.

 

thanks mach zero............. not quite my taste either.... but its better than my defualt XP wallpaper!

 

70 degrees normal for gaming!? Guys, we are talking about the CPU here not the GPU. 70 degrees is way too high, maximum I get is 62 without cooling pad. With cooling pad is maximum 58 (in this hot weather).

I strongly recommend that you get a cooling pad if you want to game in the summer. The hot weather makes my HD rise 5 degrees and CPU 7 degrees.

The Spire Pacific Cooler is nice, a few members of the forum own it, they also find it great!

Charlie-Peru

 

70C is not way too high for the CPU. I'd say 90-100C is way too high. 80s I'd be a bit concerned. Anything under that is okay, whether it's 'high' or not depends on what other people get with the same notebook and specs. If you aren't experiencing stability problems the heat isn't really a problem (i.e. it's not 'overheating', a term people throw around way too often).

 

70C is not much... I remember seeing figures of 90c+ on one of my laptops and that particular laptop never ever crashed once. It was probably the most reliable laptop I have ever owned (IBM t41). Remember mobile processor are far more tolerant than desktop versions. The yeilds are of far higher quality thats why they overclock/undervolt with ease (assuming its supported).

Also people who claim to have really low temps may not know how to record their highest temp reached during gaming. Switching back to windows and having a peak at the temp meter is totally inaccurate. There can be a significant jump once you switch. I have seen 20c+ difference by doing this.

Remember inside a laptop there is restricted space... We are usually talking in cubic milimeters so there is not much room for airflow. Desktop have cubic meters of space (slight exageration) but you get the point...

 

I don't think 70C is low... wouldn't that kill a P4?

 

70c won't kill a p4 and p4 can't burn because they have thermal throttle which means it lowers their clocks to almost nothing if its getting too hot.

70c isn't low but we are talking about notebooks and in the notebooks world peaking at 70c is not much at all. Actually a lot reach higher than this... Intel specs say 100c is max... (obviously you don't want it that high )

 

i have a p4, and it goes well over 70c during gameplay. granted, it has caused my notebook to crash on several occasions (usually when it starts nearing 80), but it hasn't died....yet.

 

Have you tried undervolting the cpu? You could proabably drop your cpu temps by 5-10c.

I think 70c is a bit on the high side, but not too hot. The thing that would concern me is that hot weather is coming. While 70c may be acceptable, I wouldn't want hotter.

If your CPU is easy to get to, you may want to check the CPU seating and apply some better thermal paste.

 

What about this one:
http://www.evercool.com/kor/pro_no.htm#