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Dell M1730 with GEFORCE 8800M SLI runnig hot

post #1 of 22
3/19/08 at 11:42pm
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I just bought a new Dell M1730 with 4 gigs of ram and the Intel Core 2 X9000 processor. It has the 8800m SLI video card(s) in it. I installed Everest and it consistently says that the GPU temperature is running around 160 degrees F. I am *not* doing anything other than surfing the web and haven't been. Is this normal? The harddrive and cpu temperatures both seem fine. They are 91F and 90F respectively. Any ideas why the GPU would be so high especially since I'm not really doing anything (playing games for instance) that would push it to it's limits? I did buy a notebook cooler but it isn't here yet. It's sitting on a flat surface with decent airflow.
I'm just a little concerned as I don't want it to burn up.
J.
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post #2 of 22
3/20/08 at 12:04am
What's that in celcius?
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post #3 of 22
3/20/08 at 12:09am
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It's about 71C.

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What's that in celcius?
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post #4 of 22
3/20/08 at 12:28am
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It's about 71C.
people go to mid 90 degree C under gaming load with the 7950's so your fine. Force the fans on high during gaming, and use a cooling stand. Thats the nature of the dedicated graphics mobile beast . .
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post #5 of 22
3/20/08 at 12:42am
Idle speed should be around 60-65C in a heated room in winter season.

Raise the back of the laptop and see what the idle temp is.
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post #6 of 22
3/20/08 at 1:29am
ooh that's hot.

my idle on my beast is 36-37 and peak is 65, but that's with 1 card. and my cooling system is freakishly designed.
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post #7 of 22
3/20/08 at 1:37am
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I didn't think that 168F (72C) was normal but I have no idea what could be causing it. That temperature is when it's just sitting idle. I'm guessing mine is higher than yours because I have the dual SLI cards but still it seems a bit excessive.
J.

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ooh that's hot.

my idle on my beast is 36-37 and peak is 65, but that's with 1 card. and my cooling system is freakishly designed.
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post #8 of 22
3/20/08 at 1:46am
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my cooling system is freakishly designed.
details?
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post #9 of 22
3/20/08 at 1:48am
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I didn't think that 168F (72C) was normal but I have no idea what could be causing it. That temperature is when it's just sitting idle. I'm guessing mine is higher than yours because I have the dual SLI cards but still it seems a bit excessive.
J.
Its an 8800SLI you could probably fry an egg on that thing. These mobile gaming laptops are going to be hot, thats the trade off.
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post #10 of 22
3/20/08 at 3:14am
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my idle on my beast is 36-37 and peak is 65, but that's with 1 card. and my cooling system is freakishly designed.
Wow. Although yours is a Single 8800, those numbers are very impressive IMO.
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post #11 of 22
3/20/08 at 10:03pm
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It's about 71C.
My GPU temp goes up to 67degC,fans come on,drops to 48 degC,fans turn off.......this is with A06 bios,with original A05 bios,fans turned off at 60 degC,cycles through this about once every 10mins just surfing the web.

Also this is with SLI disabled and powermizer enabled,if powermizer is off and sli enabled it cycles every minute or so.

Havent seen the max temp when gaming,go above 73 yet.

Once the notebook has been on a few hours,the fans when idling/surfing seem to be tripped by the chipset temp reaching 51 deg C before the GPU reaches 67.

You might want to try the A06 bios and see if that changes anything,basically IMO,this laptop is at it hottest when just surfing,watching dvd's etc,because its not being stressed and thus takes a while for the fans to kick in,meaning that the heat has a while to radiate to other parts of the notebook.............gaming is very cool IMO because the fans are always on and the heat is dissipating from the heat sources before it can reach anything else.
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post #12 of 22
3/21/08 at 4:27am
then force the fans full power?
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post #13 of 22
3/21/08 at 8:23am
i have Black Hawk XR5 (D901C) with 8800M GTX and extrenal cooling system that i made and my GPU temps are idle 35-40 and on full load (Crysis) with laptop fans at high my temps are 50-53 max with overclocked card
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post #14 of 22
3/21/08 at 8:45am
Yeah it´s different with one single 8800m GTX than having SLI 8800GTX. Of course the SLI laptop runs more hot, but try running Crysis guys at 1920x1200 for a few hours with all details set to high and see what your temps will be then? Or better up run Lost Planet DX10 all maxed out 1920x1200 for a few hours you with SLI 8800m GTX I can assure you the temp will go up to 84 degrees unless you are using a laptop cooler. Mine gets up to that if pushed really hard but then fans kicks in on high and brings it down to under 80. But stress those 8800m GTX really hard and you will see them push up to 86 degrees celsius for sure.

Don´t worry about that temp you got.
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post #15 of 22
3/21/08 at 9:49am
no my temps will never hit 80 and when i receive the second card you will see just Clevo D901C have better cooling system than Dell and my card is Overclocked at Core: 600 Shaders 1500 Memory 950 i play crysis with custom high settings between high and very high on 1680x1050 and my temps never go higher than 53 deg. with second card i think 60 deg. the most
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post #16 of 22
3/21/08 at 9:43pm
Do the fans ever turn off in the Clevo?

I was playing Crysis yesterday and the max GPU temp was 72 in a room temp of 20 deg C....fans were on low except for a couple of times onto medium speed,this was at 1920x1200 mostly medium [definitely shaders]some on high....I find setting shaders to high drops fps to the low 30's or lower which is unplayable for me....no overclocking here.

I reckon the cooling is awesome on the 1730,and I'm glad its not a hair dryer.
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post #17 of 22
3/22/08 at 12:32pm
my 8800's idle hot, about 63 in sli and 50 in single card mode. however, these cards have never gotten over 72 during hours ov heavy gaming and that includes crysis. these cards run way cooler than any other card i have ever owned, but they do idle a little high. good trade off for me.

anyone noticing that most games run better in single card mode?
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post #18 of 22
3/22/08 at 8:04pm
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anyone noticing that most games run better in single card mode?
I just did a quick experiment this morning.....posted in the FRAPS benchmark thread.
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post #19 of 22
3/23/08 at 6:57pm
No not every game runs better in single. Crysis benefits greatly from SLI, same with Lost Planet DX10, STALKER. I run with SLI, yeah some games have stuttering issues here and there because of SLI but most games runs great.
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post #20 of 22
3/23/08 at 7:22pm
yeh, you guys are right. i play americas army mostly, and it likes a single gpu better than sli, every other game in my arsenal does run a bit slower on single gpu.
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