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M1710 idle temps.... and gaming temps....

post #1 of 16
7/21/06 at 12:06am
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Hey fellas, was messing around with I8KFANGUI a decent amount today as I just got the laptop yesterday (yay!).

It seems that yesterday (i could be crazy) my 512MB 7900 GTX was idling in the 50's...

Now today, my idle temps have been about...

43 CPU
65 GPU
44 Mem
47 Chipset
42 HDD

None of that really concerns me except the GPU... this seems extremely hot for the GPU, I haven't overclocked it and Nvidia is set to factory settings (no fluctuation overclock)

Today at work, in a room full of computers, (probably about 72* F) it was idling almost at 70c!!!!

Now it's at home, and a little cooler in my house, but my GPU will not idle below 66c , with no fans running.

I don't want to jump the gun, but I'm about to call dell and bitch, because this seems far far too hot for the GPU....

What are you guys coming up with for idle/gaming temps?

I'm talking about observer mode, not actually using fangui....

Thanks in advance.
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post #2 of 16
7/21/06 at 12:15am
I know that using the dell fan control I was idling in the high 50's aswell. Sometimes it would hit 60 or so. Idling at 70 is pretty crazy.

I created my own custom policy in fangui that manages to turn the fans on slow when I startup my comp.

I now idle at 49-51.
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post #3 of 16
7/21/06 at 12:19am
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Yeah that's what I thought... could it have anything to do with the Xtreme-G drivers? That's the only thing I've changed since I thought I saw my temps being in the 50's with letting BIOS control the fans....

Now on average without touching the fans just sitting here with it idle, it goes up to 68 then the fans turn on slow till it goes back to 58c then the fans turn off and it slowly climbs back to 68 to repeat the process.....
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post #4 of 16
7/21/06 at 12:50am
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Okay I've been just monitoring my temps with letting Dell control the fans...

It seems that in my room (about 70F) the GPU temp will rise to 68c, at this point dell kicks on both fans till it goes to about 56c, then it turns both fans off.

After about 10 minutes, it's back to 68c, and Dell turns the fans back on slow... and it continues doing this, over and over, and over.

I'm wondering why my GPU is not leveling off without dell kicking the fans on????

Does the 7900 GTX idle ABOVE 70c without intervention of FANS?!?!?

This is insane... I'm going to force the fans off with fangui and see if my temp just keeps rising or if it eventually levels off without fans....

I'm now wondering if i have a bad vid card...
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post #5 of 16
7/21/06 at 2:14am
Was idle at 53...hot room today. Turned my fans from slow to off using i8kfangui for 45mins.. . Came back and my GPU was at 67. It had peaked at some point to 71 and must have leveled itself off to 67 without the use of fans.

BTW my card is OC'ed at 570/700. I can't see that making a huge difference in temps though.
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post #6 of 16
7/21/06 at 3:03am
7900gtx runs much cooler compare with 7800gtx. if let lappy bios control, the gpu idle temp in hihg 60Cs. but it never pass 82C with hours of CSS or BF2.i am think to up the vcore +AS5 see how high that this baby can go....
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post #7 of 16
7/21/06 at 3:27am
Sitting here, with my laptop slightly raised, and fans on low, I idle at 25C CPU, and 41C GPU, according to i8kfangui. Specs in sig.
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post #8 of 16
7/21/06 at 4:09am
Dell's temp/fan settings emphasize a quiet computer over an especially cool one. So the default settings seem to let the computer gpu go to around 70C(+?) before the both fans turn on at a high rpm to bring the temp down quickly. However, I think you will find, the fan(s) run at a much lower rpm (and much quieter) most of the time. It's a matter of trade-off. A pc always prefers less heat to more - but that doesn't mean it can't work safely with much higher heat. If you prefer less heat, for whatever reason, you have to put up with more noise, as the fans come on earlier / at greater rpm, earlier. To vary that, i8kfanGUI is great. I am still of two minds of which I prefer: quiet or cool. But Dell's quiet/ high temp ceiling settings work fine. I am at present using a 10 degree cooler temperature ceiling using i8kfanGUI - but the fans do come on a lot more; and sometimes I use the Dell default if silence is what I want. I would be interested to see what others are doing.
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post #9 of 16
7/21/06 at 4:40am
My settings at the moment.
http://img232.imageshack.us/my.php?i...kfanguixj0.jpg
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post #10 of 16
7/21/06 at 1:07pm
Bear in mind that i8kfangui doesn't work properly anyway, at this time. Even with brownstone's settings (thanks for those), the fans will still periodically stop completely, at which point the temperatures will increase until i8kfangui decides to work again. I still await a fully functional i8kfangui.
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post #11 of 16
7/21/06 at 2:01pm
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Originally Posted by WilliamG
Bear in mind that i8kfangui doesn't work properly anyway, at this time. Even with brownstone's settings (thanks for those), the fans will still periodically stop completely, at which point the temperatures will increase until i8kfangui decides to work again. I still await a fully functional i8kfangui.

I don't have the fans turn off completely. When in high mode they sometimes stutter. Try setting fan enforcement to 10msecs.
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post #12 of 16
7/21/06 at 9:33pm
Yeah someting is prolly wrong with my lappy. With the ambient temp around 80 F my cpu temp was at 96 degrees Celcius...yes 96C while I was doing some 3d rendering. My gpu has been up to 90 with some games too lately. According to dell tech support "Our XPS Systems are designed to lightning fast and to be rock hard steady. They do not falter very much." I just hope my computer dosent go up in flames like that other dell...Idle now is cpu=74c, gpu=72c
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post #13 of 16
7/23/06 at 10:11am
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That's on a m1710? I was worried about a 10c hot on my GPU...

You have to call dell immediately... lol..

96c on cpu is ridiculous. You need to talk to someone in tech support that knows what that means, cuz you must have talked to a MORON.

Even under full load your CPU should not really go above 60c at most... call them immediately... something is def. wrong!
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post #14 of 16
7/23/06 at 10:52am
My m1710 idles with CPU in the high 40's C and GPU in the mid 70's >.< It can even go up to 80 then the fan kicks in to bring down to high 60's. I'm using I8KFANGUI now to keep the GPU in the low 70's. Also, I8KFANGUI reports temperature 8 degrees lower than the nvidia panel, so when I say low 70's, it actually displays as 60's on I8KFANGUI.
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post #15 of 16
7/23/06 at 8:08pm
My M90 idles (no fans!) at 48C cpu and 69C gpu, if I put a pair of books under the laptop to improve air circulation.
I think you can't go below these values with passive cooling.
Anyway, the chipset is at least as hot as the cpu.
Do you experience this behaviour too?
Anyway, I think that people that obtain 50C for the gpu at idle are setting the fans at slow all the time. Big difference from no fans
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post #16 of 16
7/23/06 at 10:31pm
I use i8kfanGUI to run my machine at noisier but cooler now: idles at 36C cpu, 57C gpu, 55C chipset. Power-hungry gpu's are the big culprit that need fan-TLC. Look after the gpu, and the rest falls into place...
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