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GPU appears to be running hot.
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My HP Pavilion dv9000z (AMD turion x2 TL-52, 512 L2 cache per core, GeForce Go 6150, 1024mb DDR2 RAM, 120gb SATA)
I was going through the advanced NVIDIA display settings and looked at the temperature of the GPU and it was hovering between 81-87 degrees Celsius.
The notebook doesn't really feel that hot, and it's never been that much hotter while playing games.
I have recently blown away the HP pre-load that was Vista and put XP Pro on the unit like a good boy should. Since doing that the notebook hasn't increased in heat that I can tell.
Is there a setting that needs to be enabled in XP or something else that I'm missing? Or should it be normal for a notebook GPU to run at 80+ degrees Celsius?
I was going through the advanced NVIDIA display settings and looked at the temperature of the GPU and it was hovering between 81-87 degrees Celsius.
The notebook doesn't really feel that hot, and it's never been that much hotter while playing games.
I have recently blown away the HP pre-load that was Vista and put XP Pro on the unit like a good boy should. Since doing that the notebook hasn't increased in heat that I can tell.
Is there a setting that needs to be enabled in XP or something else that I'm missing? Or should it be normal for a notebook GPU to run at 80+ degrees Celsius?
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GPUs run really fucking hot, man. Always do. That's why the desktop ones have giant fucking coolers that take up an extra slot. Laptops with decent (read: non-Intel) GPUs don't have the space for that kind of cooling and get hot.
Unless you start to see visual artifacts (static, weird bright dots, screwed up polygons, etc), it's not a problem, although it does use up more power. (If there's 70 watts of heat coming out of your GPU, that means there's 70 watts of electricity going in).
Ok, I was concerned because my GeForce 6600 GT usually ran pretty warm at 50-60 Degrees Celsius, but it did have a fan on it; didn't take up an extra slot though.
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Make sure you aren't blocking any of the air intakes/outlets. If you use the laptop on a table putting something underneath the back, to lift it a bit might help (or there are some cooling pads that do that and additionally use a fan to blow air at the bottom).
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