HEL80 Heat

Do any of your Compal HEL 80s get fairly hot to the left of the mouse pad? Mine right now is making my wrist sweat a little..I didnt know if this was standard for this model or not? I have a 60GB 7200 hard drive and i do have AS5 compound on the cpu. Would a notebook cooling pad help this issue?

 

The hd is on the right and as5 is for the cpu, which is on the left near the middle, so it might be the cpu, but the cpu is under the keyboard im pretty sure

 

hmmm..bc its def hotter than the right side... right side is actually not bad at all..but the left is barely tolerable

 

wiL, is this your first laptop? I don't mean to offend, I only ask because heat is usually a first time laptop user's issue.

If you have never used a laptop before you are used to the desktop (with all of its heat) on the floor, instead of the heat from the various components of a laptop that resides under your hands.

Virtually all users of the HEL80 have commented that it is one of the coolest (that is a relative term of course, but it has to be relative with a laptop...any laptop) laptops they have used.

 

I guess its just that Ive never used a powerful laptop by any means that creates an abundance of heat anyway..ive owned a Sony Vaio PCG 9B5L with an AMD4 in it and an older Dell Inspiron and neither of them ever really got hot (i guess its bad to compare the HEL 80 to either one of those)....will this be something that ill get used to?

 

The only 'hot spot' I found on the HEL80 is to the left of the touchpad, as well as the touchpad itself - it's normal as Donald said. The heat on the HEL80 is quite low compared to other machines.
I've never felt as if the laptop was even close to overheating - the cooling system is very good.

 

good thing i didnt get the Asus Z81sp i was looking at.

 

Hehe...amen brother!

 

the only time i feel heat anywhere is when i'm running a game which obviously makes everything run a bit hotter but within 2/3 seconds of running the game its back to being cool

 

As I am leaning more and more toward an HGL30 from Power Notebooks at the end of summer, this thread is music to my ears. Different model, but I don't think there'd be that much difference.

C.

 

wiL, this is one of the quietest and coolest "performance" laptops that I've ever used. If you're using it at home, consider an external keyboard and mouse setup.

claudione314, the HGL30 may run slightly (and I mean ever so slightly) warmer than the HEL80 due to smaller size and perhaps less cooling airflow...but I'm sure Donald can verify one way or the other. I'm sure it runs very cool and quiet though.

 

I would like to know what is exactly under the hot spot that is producing the heat? Or is it coming from the CPU?
I thought it would be the HD but it's on the other side.

 

It is coming from the CPU which is under the right side of the touchpad...actually toward the keyboard. See the picture of the bottom with the panels open, and notice the CPU is at the top of the left (upside down/right) open panel.

 

I've got a pretty beefy config in an HGL-30 (see the sig), and I haven't ever noticed it get too hot, even playing Civ4 with full AA, and Far Cry with very high graphics settings for hours. I highly recommend the machine (or the A8js, which is what I'd be looking at if I currently had the choice. A bit faster graphics card )

 

I got mine 15 months ago and didn't have any heat problems until earlier this year. The support guy told me the box design is a dust magnet and to be careful.

Just this week I've had the thing overheat on me while playing WoW on pretty tame settings. SpeedFan says the video card is getting to 80 degrees C and above. That is with a cooling pad and good ventilation.

Overall I'm pleased with the performance but the heat I'm experiencing is significantly above what I'm used to, even on laptops.

 

ALL laptops are dust magnets since they are drawing dirty air through the cooling system which acts as a filter to trap that dust.

Did the support guy teach you how to clean your cooling system to get rid of the dust and bring your temperatures down?

 

i have also had problems with heat. Recently I went ahead and reapplied the heat dope on the cpu as i went the cheap way and didnt have the place i bought my laptop from charge me $40 to put on the Arctic Silver compound. I know what was involved in doing it and do not reccomend the average user attempt it due to the possibilities of damaging your system.

After applying the paste I noticed that when I ran WoW my CPU was about 20 to 30*F lower then before. This made it run a bit cooler. I have also wanted to buy a cooling pad, mainly one that i can place on my lap and have a spot for a mouse as well but have only seen ones for smaller ie 14.1 in laptops. Are there any that are the right size for a HEL80?

Icey Kitsune

 

20-30F lower? wow... Where was it before?

 

I have taken everything apart that I can and i don't even see any visible dust.

The techie basically agreed with you that all laptops are dusty, but this case was in a whole different league.

 

well it was hovering around 175 ish when i was playing WoW. Now its running about 145F ish sometimes up to 155F

Icey_kitsune

 

That's very hot, check your GPU?

 

well running vista I have found only one program that will report anything from hardware. coretemp works nicely and tells me the temp of both my cores on the cpu but nothing on the GPU. I have the NVidia control panel which has a temp monitor program but considering the GPU states it never gets over 115 I dont feel it is correctly reporting. also many of the other stats like the fan speeds are all random numbers that dont change in it. If you know a good program that works on vista i would love to hear about it and install that right away, if my GPU is also over heating then I may apply the AS compound to it as well.

Icey Kitsune

 

I use GPU-Z 0.1.6, and my GPU is 58C (136.4F).

 

well i got that and compared it to the nVidia one and they seem to be accurate but it never got over about 57*C or (when i looked at the nVidia one) 120*F playing WoW with pretty high settings, mind you i still only get 30fps average when i look more down then straight at the skyline (drawdistance is abit high so it may be what gets me abit lower fps.)

still my cpu is averaging about 150*F. i still have some heat issues under the wrist pad but a nice sock or rag fixes that for now.

Icey_Kitsune

 

Your CPU is indeed hot, my CPU temp range is 48-52C and 60-75 for games. I thought you had problems with the GPU and not the CPU.

 

Nah my gpu should be fine and since my cpu is a core2duo i expect it to be hot. most laptops with high end processors are fairly hot. I also run many other programs at the same time so the processor has to take care of that aswell. I have considered the heat as being a problem with other things like my wireless card problem but when i shut down after the card stops it doesnt seem hot but thats another issue.

Icey_kitsune

 

Try to use a cooler, one of those bases with multiple fans.