New Lenovo reporting over 100'C at idle.

[StormtrooperStu]

Hi guys, my sons new Lenovo 505s with an AMD A10-5750m was showing around 100'C while playing Fallout 3 and was pumping out some serious heat.  Fair enough.

 

When the laptop was at idle it still showed the same sort of temperature even though the fan was on low and the air from the exhaust was only just warm.

 

We were using HWmonitor but Speecy showed the same results. Coretemp shown nothing.

 

Weird. Any ideas ?

[Izaya Orihara]

Software going insane. 

[Ex0Thermic]

i had a customer HP in last week also had an AMD A10 series cpu. it seemed to be running hot and using HWMonitor was hitting 119'c while doing a full virus scan.
i just put it down to it being an AMD cpu as they always seem to run hot.

[StormtrooperStu]

i had a customer HP in last week also had an AMD A10 series cpu. it seemed to be running hot and using HWMonitor was hitting 119'c while doing a full virus scan.

i just put it down to it being an AMD cpu as they always seem to run hot.

 

I know they do but the max is 105'C according to good old Google.

 

Is there is a strange software glitch with the AMD's, I know there is with the desktops.

[Ex0Thermic]

i'm not to sure myself. I tried updating drivers, resetting bios, checking fans where clear, etc but still was hot. 
might be worth contacting the retailer to see if they are aware off any issues ?

[mkessler9]

I know they do but the max is 105'C according to good old Google.

 

Is there is a strange software glitch with the AMD's, I know there is with the desktops.

Yea there is. I have a amd 6300 and some times I can't trust the temps the monitors tell me. There usually within normal like between 30c-50c but I was stress testing my pc once and it said my cpu was at 34C... Yea not gonna happen with this water cooler lol.

[mkessler9]

Hi guys, my sons new Lenovo 505s with an AMD A10-5750m was showing around 100'C while playing Fallout 3 and was pumping out some serious heat.  Fair enough.

 

When the laptop was at idle it still showed the same sort of temperature even though the fan was on low and the air from the exhaust was only just warm.

 

We were using HWmonitor but Speecy showed the same results. Coretemp shown nothing.

 

Weird. Any ideas ?

I wouldn't worry. I can tell you its definitely not at 100C it's just a bug with software monitors on amd. and being a laptop its meant to pump out heat when stressed. The cooler in the laptop is cable of cooling the processor enough to not be dangerous for the cpu so no reason to worry. You can always buy a laptop cooling pad to if it still worrys you.

[StormtrooperStu]

I wouldn't worry. I can tell you its definitely not at 100C it's just a bug with software monitors on amd. and being a laptop its meant to pump out heat when stressed. The cooler in the laptop is cable of cooling the processor enough to not be dangerous for the cpu so no reason to worry. You can always buy a laptop cooling pad to if it still worrys you.

 

I was going to get one anyway. Any recommendations ?

[mkessler9]

I was going to get one anyway. Any recommendations ?

not sure. I don't have much hands on experience with them. I'm sure you can find some reviews of some on YouTube though