Dell XPS laptop CPU overheating! help!

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I have had my dell xps laptop for about 3 years now. It has always worked great for games, but in the past few months, the framerates in games are horrible, even when all the settings are turned to low. I have reformatted multiple times, took apart my laptop and cleaned it with an air can, and now I used speedfan to check the temp's. It says my cpu is idling at around 62c, and it goes to around 69c in games. Is this too hot? It's the only thing I can think of, since I've re-installed drivers for everything 10 times, and cleaned my computer. I don't really want to buy an external cooling solution...I just want it to act like it did during the first year or 2 that I had it. I also used i8kfanGUI to set all my fans to high speed, but it's still that hot. (And I checked to make sure they run smooth and are clean)There is no reason why I should be getting such low frames per second with all low settings in counterstrike. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

dell inspiron xps laptop
3.4 ghz
ati mobility radeon 9700
1GB RAM

Shouldn't this be able to handle at LEAST all low graphics??? it used to run on high/medium settings no problem.
Maybe it's not a heat problem....going to run a 3dmark test now.
 
I've been having similar problems with my E1705.
Formatted XP several times, still having problems. I've actually gone through three video cards now. I believe due to heat issues with them in the housing, which leads to video corruption in games, on the desktop, and in bios.
I have no idea, what's going on.
 
even just dragging around folders on the desktop...they leave behind those ghost windows slightly. not normal.
 
just ran 3DMark06, and it was going about 1 FPS the whole time. I aborted....and now am pretty sure that my video card is the problem.....ahhhhhh
 
For the XPS to be fixed properly..

1. Take the cooling fans off and clean the dust out of them

2. Take the palmrest off.

3. Take the vid card out and clean the heatsink fins

4. Take the CPU heatsink off and clean all the dust off of it as well as the dried up crappy white heat transfer compound.

5. Take the CPU out and clean the heatsink comound off of it.

6. Take the other fan off (for the chipset I believe), and clean all the dust out of it... then clean the dut off of the chipset heatsink - encased in the black plastic shroud thing that the fan in #5 blows through.

7. Re-assemble.... using actual good quality heat transfer compound for the processor.
 
As for the E1705... if you have in-house warranty, call Dell and have them send somebody out. Most likely it is a clogged up heatsink or faulty fan.

If you don't... take the palmrest off, clean all the dust out, take the CPU heatsink off... apply some good heat transfer comound and re-assemble.

(99.9% of the onsite techs will not apply heat transfer compound.... by actually using heat transfer comound, you will lower the CPU temps significantly) - Dell uses a really sad heat transfer pad that is highly lacking in performance.
 
my inspiron 9100 with a pressy 3.2 always had the fan on all the time %100, i took it apart and put AS5 on the heat sink for the CPu and the fan almost NEVEr went on to high unless running folding at home and even then it was only if it was warm day.
 
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