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Inspiron 9300 w/ 7800 GTX... unusually high temperatures

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Hi my machine is in my sig, I've had it for about a year and a half now and have noticed that it runs unusually hot. I clean the fans regularly and often but this does not seem to combat the hotness issue.

I use fangui and the cpu often idles at 40 degrees celsius, somtimes peaking at 65 celsius when I'm playing games like Splinter Cell. The GPU idles at 71 degrees celsius according to my NVIDIA display temperature which is mind boggling, it often maxes out at 106 degrees celsius during high stress games as well. I don't believe it's my room because my room is never gets any hotter than 70 degrees farenheit, and it h

I currently have AS5 applied to the CPU and the GPU. I've probably used half of the tube in this past year from probably over 15 re-applications of AS5. I follow all the tutorials of putting a very thin layer onto the die, and have even attempted some mods such as putting a pure copper plate in between the GPU and the heatsink, but everytime the idle temp has not lowered from 70 degrees celsius.

The laptop is completely immobile and I run it on the same surface I've ran it on since I bought it and I remember idle temps as low as 25C for CPU and 48c for GPU
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That is not unusually hot, maybe just a little more than normal. By comparison I used to run an i8600 that had a Mobility 9600 which regularly broke to 100C barrier. It is within the thermal limits.

I would suggest to help it either by elevating the back of the laptop to improve airflow (you could put a bottlecap under each back corner for example) or get a laptop cooler hub (usually fairly cheap, acts as a USB hub and also includes a couple fans that blow air on to the bottom of the laptop.

Stu
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You are likely using your 3d clocks on your desktop and theres a way to decrease your idle but it wont decrease your max temp. I'm trying to see what can be done about max temps now but since I have a 6800u, there's no guarantee it will work for you.
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I don't know what exact temp mine gets too, but I know my 7800 gtx gets pretty warm to the touch on the bottom side of the laptop. It's always been like this...
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