Laptop Temperatures - Is mine okay?

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FormidableRed

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So, I bought myself a new laptop from PCSpecialist, the specs are:

Chassis & Display: Voyager: 17.3" Matte HD LED Widescreen (1600x900)
Processor (CPU): Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3630QM (2.40GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM): 8GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 645M - 1GB DDR3 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
Memory - 1st Hard Disk: 1TB SERIAL ATA II 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 8MB CACHE (5,400rpm)
Thermal Paste: STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING

I've seen people, who've said anything over 90C is classed as overheating, and it shouldn't be that high?

And at the moment I'm only running Opera (web browser) & Football Manager 2013, and this is how it's looking: http://gyazo.com/7ca8b3867ef9f50ca68709d51dde9cc2.png?1361909365

When I run Torchlight II: http://gyazo.com/079e709e4f50f6117927bb24a7e3dab4.png?1361909702

Are those temps okay, should I worry?

And what temps can my i7 handle? 80C? 90C? 100C?


Also, those temps are while I have my laptop on a external cooler, helping keep temps down.


Any help/feedback would be awesome.
 
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Jaydea

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I don't know if this will work for you, but I found going to my power plan and restricting my 3610qm to 95% brought my temperatures down by 20-30 degrees. Seems like a very trivial performance loss for such an improvement in temperature.
 
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FormidableRed

Active member
Jaydea said:
I don't know if this will work for you, but I found going to my power plan and restricting my 3610qm to 95% brought my temperatures down by 20-30 degrees. Seems like a very trivial performance loss for such an improvement in temperature.
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How would I go about doing this?
 
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Jaydea

Bronze Level Poster
Click the battery charge icon in the bottom right corner, go to 'More Power Options', click 'More Plan Options' for the power plan you use to game with and then go onto 'Advanced Power Settings'.

Scroll down to 'Processor Power Management' and change your minimum processor state to about 50% and your maximum processor state to 95%, 90% if necessary.
 
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FormidableRed

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After a little looking around, I've found out the i7-3630QM can handle temperatures up to 105 °C, as of yet it's not gone past 83 °C. And that was only a spike, it's been running at around 65/75 °C, which is around 30 °C lower then the maximum.
 
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kylhan

Silver Level Poster
My GPU temps are usually anywhere between 75-90 degrees c while gaming. My CPU temps are even higher under heavy load. Just make sure you clear your air vents of dust regularly! :)
 
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