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    t7100 Overheating???

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Tippey764, Aug 17, 2008.

  1. Tippey764

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    I recently just upgraded my dv6000 to a t7100 and now my laptop gets hotter it feels alot hotter. The laptop idles below what it used to idle at but when it gets going i was hitting 80*C today and the graphics card was getting up to 70*C. Mind you i applied AS5 to the GPU and the CPU i cleaned off all of the thermal pads of dust and screwed it all back together nice and tight. Odd componets in this laptop are getting hotter like the southbridge its getting WAY to hot to the point of if you touch the plastic on the outside of the laptop below it its burning hot. So yeah anyone whos used a t7100 or has one and knows its operating specs could you please post and a cpu-z screen shot of your cpu would be nice as mine is an ES. Oh lastly my cpu runs at 1.313 volts when its at 1.8ghz and 1.138 when at 1.2ghz and wikipedia says diffrent voltages.
     
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    Have you tried undervolting?
     
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    How are you detecting the voltages? If you are using RMClock then select Mobile CPU on the Advanced CPU settings page, then restart RMClock.

    The specified voltage range for the T7100 is between 1.0375V and 1.30V at 1.8GHz and between 0.85V and 1.05V at 1.2GHz. Each CPU is coded with voltages within those ranges during production.

    John
     
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    I have only had this cpu in here for about a day but i am just seeing problems i dont really think it should have to be undervolted to run as cool as my old chip did ( my old chip was a t5250 )
     
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    You may have been lucky with the T5250 and it had a relatively low default voltage range so it ran quite cool without tweaking. This T7100, on the other hand, has a higher pre-set voltage range (but is still within specification) and has to be tweaked to get the temperature down. It's quite likely that it will be stable at 1.1V or below at 1.8GHz which will take about 10C off its temperature.

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