how hot does your laptop run?

hi, ive been using that program for a few weeks now..nice program and it gave me an extra 30min of battery time, but for some reason it doesnt show my cpu temp..dv5040us - amd turion64 ml40 2.2ghz

Compaq R4000

idle cpu temp: 52 C
load cpu temp: 65 C

With undervolting, I got 42C CPU and 32C HD idle temperatures with my DV4000. When the CPU is running at full power for prolonged time, it went up to near 70C. Typically, the CPU goes between 42 and 52C while the HD (80GB 5400RPM) is always 32 even during defragmentation.

I think its an awesome little app, I've only been using it for about 2 months, but it seems to work out well, on battery if you put it on the max battery setting, it gives me a good extra hour, and with the dynamic switching on battery it seems to give me good performace with about 30 extra minutes. it totaly rocks.

On that neat little program... I fiqured I'd post the below for three reasons:

1: The main site may go down (or disappears completely:-(.. and the program may be lost forever... Yes this does happen to allot of neat little programs... especially the "free" ones.
2: Someone may be looking for it, and if the link provided is "down", it's going to be hard Hard to search for something when you don't know the "name".:-)
3: When searching for something, if the name of the program is not posted it doesn't show up in a search... Once again it's hard to track down something if you don't know the "name".


Current /latest version is v 1.10 Beta 3 (01.04.2006) of 4-2006. File name to search for in case above site is down, or disappears is: nhc_1.10_beta03.zip

The name of the program is:
Notebook Hardware Control (NHC)
Old name: Centrino Hardware Control (CHC)
http://www.pbus-167.com/chc.htm

With Notebook Hardware Control you can easily control the hardware components of your Notebook (AMD and Intel). Notebook Hardware Control helps you to:

Prolong the battery lifetime and cool down the system with CPU Voltage Control and ATI Clock Control.

Features: Full processor speed control with custom dynamic switching and CPU Speed Control (CPU policy)-monitor the battery charge level and system temperature. Control and monitor the Hard Drive with S.M.A.R.T management, acoustic & advanced power management and Hard Drive temperature monitoring.

Reduce noise with Notebook FAN Control (not for all Notebooks).
Info:Notebook Hardware Control works on all Notebooks (AMD and Intel).
Some features are only available on newer Pentium CPU's

Download mirrors

Notebook Hardware Control is also available on:
http://www.p35-forum.de
http://www.computerbase.de
http://www.deine-hardware.de
http://www.hardwareluxx.de

IMPORTANT! Notebook Hardware Control 1.9 BETA 03 or newer needs the
Microsoft's .NET Framework Version 2.0 or newer installed.

Older versions: http://www.pbus-167.com/chc.htm, select download tab>Slect download Mirrors and old versions
Centrino Hardware Control 1.9 BETA 02
Centrino Hardware Control 1.8 The older versions (Centrino Hardware Control - CHC) needs the
Microsoft's .NET Version 1.1 Framework installed.

The problem of the Compaq R3000 and R4000 series is the cooling paste!!!
Which have replaced with Artic silver 5!!!
I'll post back some screenshots of NHC!!!

As You can see the temp is 22C with 22C of ambiente temperature!!!
The problem with the Compaq R3000 and R4000 series is the cooling paste!!!
Even if the ambiente temp goes up to 30C, I have only 1 fan spinning at lowest speed!!!

Not sure why but NHC is not able to give me any voltage/multi regulation, so as You can see from the pic I used CBID!

I'll post another screeshot with Prime95 running and 1.450V of voltage @ 1.80ghz!

PS. even if the CPU load says 100%, it went up just to take the pic... that would be liquid cooling on laptop!!!

48 degree under heavy load is not bad!
The system can do even better, the problem is that the 2nd fan shut off when the CPU reaches 46 degree so it doesn't go below that....
Does anyone know if there is a way to turn the 2nd fan on as well? NHC doesn't have this feature yet

I have R4000 3200+...
I wiped off the old paste and replaced with arctic silver. I don't remember what the temperature was before I did this. But afterwards, the idle temperature stays at ambient and the full load (prime95) temperature is 53 to 56 depending on ambient.

Nowadays, my temp is up to 90 degrees under full CPU&GPU load, and it's even undervolted. It used to be up to 80 degrees, so I'm wondering if fans are not working as well as year ago, or if there is some dust. I've tried to have a look, but I've seen nothing. I just hope it doesn't overheat. The CPU shutdown temperature is 95. Fortunately, this thing's got a 3-year warranty.

I tried that program with my notebook and it wouldn't read the temp. Is there any out there that will?
I have the HP Pavilon dv8210

Try using a can of compressed air on the unit, blow through the intake vent and see what comes out.

Oh and on the note of heatpaste of HP notebooks, alot of times there is too much paste on the CPU (it gets caked around the sides of the core). Fortunately, the heatsink/heatpipes I've dealt with, squeeze the paste to a thin layer on the core itself if installed correctly. The heatpipe I deal with has the numbers 1-4 next to each screw. Screw them down in order and the paste should apply correctly.

Thank, Szadek.