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9300 owners: how warm does it get?

post #1 of 21
3/21/05 at 4:42am
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I've seen a couple reports of the 9300 getting pretty toasty after gaming for a while, but I haven't seen any temperature reports.

Has anybody monitored temps during times of toastiness? How hot does it get? I8fangui should be able to tell you, and the nvidia display applet might have a GPU temp reading as well. Also, try RivaTuner if the nVidia driver doesn't support reading temps directly.

Subjective reports like "suffered 2nd-degree burns" would also be useful.
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post #2 of 21
3/21/05 at 5:28am
Dellbert, you got a 9200 right? I dunno about you but mine stays pretty cool most of the time, even with gaming (ie doom3, WC3 for a couple of hours). Imagine your 9200 at its warmest and the 9300 will be 3~4 as hot after a couple hrs of the same gaming. Probably wouldn't be as comfortable on your lap anymore....but the heat from the laptop isn't nearly as bad as from the AC adapter...this thing gets super hot...it could probably boil water!!! LOL, probably not, but it is really hot...i guess the new GPU really sucks alot of current.

I'll try to get the software you mentioned DL and installed. Hope this helps.
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post #3 of 21
3/21/05 at 5:34am
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My 9200 always stays cool, which I *love*. It was this quote from Hibby that made me wonder how warm the 9300 gets:

As for the 6800 and heat, I played an hour of Far Cry the other night @ 1440x900 with the settings at high, and it definately gets hot. I couldn't leave my hand on the bottom of the machine near the GPU for more than 10 seconds before it became uncomfortably hot.
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post #4 of 21
3/21/05 at 6:15am
I guess it depends how efficient the fans and heatsink are ... at one point I had a Toshiba 30CDT for a few months, the laptop itself stayed pretty cool even after it had been running for a while except for the air outlet vent (which was only maybe 6 square centimeters in area), which was like a hair dryer ... keeping your hand a good 5cm away you couldn't hold it there because the air was so burning hot (and coming out fast!) ... makes you wonder both how hot the heatsink was and how good the heat transfer was ...
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post #5 of 21
3/21/05 at 7:14am
I'd say it depends on how weak you are. I mean come on... 10 seconds? If you can't hold your hand in boiling water for that long, you are ****ing pathetic.

</troll>
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post #6 of 21
3/21/05 at 10:10am
How much less current will a X300 draw, in comparison to a 6800?

Will there be a substantial reduction in power-consumption/heat with choosing a X300 over a 6800?
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post #7 of 21
3/21/05 at 10:59am
I think the question should be more if you had an X300 idling (basic 2D say) and a 6800 doing the same thing, if there would be any difference. Given an awful lot of both the X300 and the 6800 chips would be switched off (both implement powerdowns on various sections and clock gating if I'm not mistaken), I'd be inclined to say the difference in your run-of-the-mill business aps would be minimal ... you'd notice the difference once you started turning on the 3D parts of the chips. Note that CMOS (and any MOS technology for that matter) only draws power when bits change state so turning the clock signal off on a part of the chip is about as close as you can get to turning that part of the chip off without actually turning it off.

Of course, I haven't had an in-depth look into the power management policies implemented in these chips so I could be completely wrong ... but this sorta makes sense I guess, all of these chips have more than enough 2D performance ...
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post #8 of 21
3/21/05 at 11:04am

This Thing Is Cool As Ice!

Hey dellbert,
I've been gaming for about 7 hours a day and this thing barely heats up. Dell has build an effective cooling system with ONLY 2 fans, unlike those sagers BTW, the games i usually play are farcry, doom, and cs and I haven't notice any heat problems. I'm very pleased with the i9300 and couldn't be any happier
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post #9 of 21
3/22/05 at 12:20am
Thread Starter 
Bump to see if anybody has any hard numbers.
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post #10 of 21
3/22/05 at 12:29am
It Doesn't Get Hot At All
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post #11 of 21
3/22/05 at 12:34am
Thread Starter 
Sounds good, SirBA. Got any numbers? Have you monitored temps at all? OC'd the GPU, and looked at temp differences, for example?
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post #12 of 21
3/22/05 at 2:03am
If anyone has a 9300, they can use Mobmeter to get a readout for the CPU/GPU. I'm fairly certian that the second temperature is the GPU.
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post #13 of 21
3/22/05 at 5:05am
yea i took mine to a lan party the first day i had it and it never really got that hot at all, even after hours of gaming. in fact i have yet to hear the fan go to high, and the only way i know they turn on at all si when i feel the air comming out the side becuase i can't hear it at all.
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post #14 of 21
3/22/05 at 6:05am
Mine is around the 60 degres mark after playing Mabinogi (www.mabinogi.jp) for the whole day without the air conditioner on, I live in Singapore so the weather here is tropical and very hot during the afternoon...
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post #15 of 21
3/22/05 at 6:11am
Out of interest has anyone installed i8kfangui on their 9300s and is it fully compatible as with the 8600s. If so, this gives full details on HDD, RAM, GPU and CPU temps as well as being able to graph them over time ie. when playing games, so this may be used to obtain the hard data that Dellbert is after...

Cheers
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post #16 of 21
3/22/05 at 6:14am
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Originally Posted by Noids
Out of interest has anyone installed i8kfangui on their 9300s and is it fully compatible as with the 8600s. If so, this gives full details on HDD, RAM, GPU and CPU temps as well as being able to graph them over time ie. when playing games, so this may be used to obtain the hard data that Dellbert is after...

Cheers
I never used that, I'd rather depend on the new thermal system that Dell has incorporated...
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post #17 of 21
3/22/05 at 6:41am
Ran 3dMark 2005, 2003 and played TOD (2048 resolution)yes I know max is 1920 x 1280 but it accepted it anyway. Anyway after all that, felt the bottom of the i9300 and it was just a little warm, unlike my previous Compaq Lappy, which could fry an egg on the bottom after 30mins!
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post #18 of 21
3/24/05 at 3:11pm
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Originally Posted by Noids
Out of interest has anyone installed i8kfangui on their 9300s and is it fully compatible as with the 8600s. If so, this gives full details on HDD, RAM, GPU and CPU temps as well as being able to graph them over time ie. when playing games, so this may be used to obtain the hard data that Dellbert is after...

Cheers
I just installed it. It doesn't have any effect on the gpu fan. What about anybody else?
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post #19 of 21
3/24/05 at 3:17pm
Here is my temp.

The CPU is around 30C and the GPU is around 40C with the fan turn on. Cant let fangui control 9300 since the GPU heats up a lot faster than the CPU. No luck with speedfan too. Thus, the fan will be on all the time. If you prefer total quiet laptop, I9200 will be your best choice though.
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post #20 of 21
3/24/05 at 3:31pm
I have a buddy with the i8600 and the 9600 pro turbo and that thing heats up a lot. His 2.0ghz centrino hits 72 c after playing rise of nations! My 9100 doesn't even get that hot, my other temp hits about 68-70 playing games tops!
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