Miller88 Posted August 15, 2008 Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 My Inspiron 1520 has the 8600m GT (not on the motherboard). While in a session of Call of Duty 4 or Rainbow Six Veas I'll get it up to a max of 70C. I know getting them up around 90 is kinda dangerous but is 70 safe? I've had the CPU to 100C once or twice... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted August 15, 2008 Report Share Posted August 15, 2008 70C is just fine for a GPU. In fact, it is somewhat low. However, 100C is incredibly hot for an Intel processor. You should probably get that checked on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miller88 Posted August 16, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Sounds good :) . I'm still going to put some AS on the graphics card heat sync assembly. At the time I hit 100 on the CPU I had a heat sync that was missing half of its fins. Poor heat transfer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolcop06 Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 (edited) dang... id be worried about 100c... thats not good. uhm i think the max temp on my cpu peakes around 90c... and temps are usually 84-88c gaming... gpu temps peak around 93c and are usually 86-90c... thats with my defective gpu also, which is overclocked and has new thermal paste... and idle temps for both are usually mid 50's to low 60's... so dont worry about 70c... thats completely normal. 85-90c in gaming for a notebook seems normal but i really wouldnt want to get above that... Edited August 16, 2008 by coolcop06 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Marley Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 Just get that CPU heatsink fixed, and you will be just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Udedenkz Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 (edited) Anyone know how much it costs to reseat a heatsink if you don't want to/scared to DIY? Or something like that? If you want to know how hot your GPU can REALLY go, try FurMark. ORTHOS is good for seeing how hot your CPU can go... both neat little programmes... Edited August 16, 2008 by Udedenkz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew55 Posted August 16, 2008 Report Share Posted August 16, 2008 The GPU temp is very good. The one you should be worried abt is the CPU temp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miller88 Posted August 17, 2008 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2008 I got a new CPU heatsync back in May/June and the CPU doesn't go much above 68-72 while gaming. The bad cpu heatsync was okay when I had the 1.5 core 2, but apparently it didn't like the 2.0 core 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.