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Laptop cooling

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Chris-R

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i got another queston about my laptop question. i have an E Machines 5305. anyone know what the temperature of the processor SHOULD be running at idle??? it is a mobile AMD Athlon XP 2200+ mine is running at around 50 degrees Celsius at idle...that normal??
 
This is not a reply to you but a question for you.
What are you using to see your temp ?
I have 2 laptops and can not get anything to work on reading CPU temps.
I have tried both speedfan and MBM5 and both do not work. However speedfan did read the hard drive temp on one of them.
 
i use a thermometer with a wire attatched to it and i simply place the wire between the heat sink and the processor...i guess thats accurate enough yea??
 
Also...it shuts off (crashes) when it reaches about about 60 degrees celsius....is this normal?
 
It's normal.

If you want, you can look at the cooling system, and re-design portions of it if you think you can get a gain from it. Just make sure to have a spare heatsink unit around if you start that up, especially if you go any further than mesing with the thermal interface materials.

I know that on my Dell CPX, rempoving the thick thermal pads form the top and bottom of the heatspreader will actually lower the cooleing performance...yeah the material sucks and is hurting the cooling abilities, but the reason it's there is to act as a cushion, for the top interface goes on to my keyboard, and uses it as a ghetto heatsink of sorts. So all i did was replace the crappy heavy grain thermal compound at the actual sink end of the unit (it's a heatpipe cooler), and used AS2 on it (AS3 wasn't even out yet)...reassembled it, and voila! System runs very cool now, and the fan only turns on for about a minute every 40 mins under full load.
 
50 is average temp for a laptop, actually. I have an old 600mhz system that used to crash now and then because of a chipset overheat, I ended up having a piece of copper custom-made (for free) to fit under the Keyboard. the underside is painted, except in those places where the CPU, Graphics chip, choüset and harddrive are. These are sunk a bit so you can get as big a block of copper in there as possible.

Mucho grande costs, but when o/ced to 850 mhz it runs @ room temp +21 degrees C.
 
hey gizmo...thanks for the link...but everytime i DL, it gives me corrupt files and prompts me to re-dl it....you got another link???
 
hey Little Grabbi,

Where did you get that copper from? just wondering i might wanna try that out for cooling seems like a good idea... and hmm still trying abit more and experimenting on this stuff.... Thanx everyone for your input, wonder if anyone else has more feed back i would appreciate it...


**** UPDATE..
I used that program Temp Probe, and it says that my temps are at 85 degrees Celsius.. that pretty insane.. wow???? Now what to do...
 
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