Is It Too Hot

[Irodo_BSMD]

I have a Toshiba satellite laptop with an i3 370m and i think its overheating a "tad". I have ordered a new cooling stand as my one is on its way out and Im building a gaming rig for christmas 

 

Do you think its overheating? (sorry for the noob question)

 

 

[WhatTheQuack]

Yeah, that's pretty hot for idle temperatures 

[Wano97]

Idle is kinda too hot, but max temps are fine

[Irodo_BSMD]

Btw its on power saving mode

[Coombzy]

Btw its on power saving mode

What happens when you put it on performance mode does it heat up really badly? 

[Goldilock]

might be dried up thermal paste as the laptop seems pretty old.

[harrynowl]

My laptop idles at 60c, load is 73c.

 

It's hard to keep them cool.

[Irodo_BSMD]

What happens when you put it on performance mode does it heat up really badly?

it hangs around 80-90 degrees and then cuts out

 

Im going to attempt to clear out all of the dust and if that doesnt work i will order a nice 30 quid zalman cooler. And if that dont work its time to start my gaming rig early...

[papeles]

I have a Toshiba satellite laptop with an i3 370m and i think its overheating a "tad". I have ordered a new cooling stand as my one is on its way out and Im building a gaming rig for christmas 

 

Do you think its overheating? (sorry for the noob question)

thats kinda common on alot of laptops. Summer maybe?

[SpyRosL]

~Dust in the wind~

 

You have to clean it up at least 1 time every 4-6 months. I just cleaned mine up and it idles at 40C instead of 80C

 

I found a spider nest inside  

[asquirrel]

Clean heatsink and put new thermal paste. And NEVER cheap out on thermal paste on a laptop

Pfft. I bought a NEW 660 TI from EVGA, took the heatsink off, applied some 4-year old Noctua thermal paste I had from my PC build, and dropped my full load temps 7C. Holy crap! The card was only 4-5 months old at that point!

[asquirrel]

I said crappy thermal paste, how old is it isn't a factor (except if is a crappy thermal paste that cures)

PS: I've 3-year-old MX-4 tubes

True enough. I just never imagined a respected company like EVGA would use such shitty stock paste. o.0

[Mojo-Jojo]

The thing with laptops is they'll try less hard to stay cool.

 

With a small heatsink and a tiny fan, they'll produce a lot of noise if they wanted to stay at comfortable temps.

 

Having said that, your idle temps are quite high indeed. Kinda like mine when I posted on here about replacing laptop thermal paste.

 

Replace the paste and clean your heatsink. You'll love the results.

[Irodo_BSMD]

The thing with laptops is they'll try less hard to stay cool.

 

With a small heatsink and a tiny fan, they'll produce a lot of noise if they wanted to stay at comfortable temps.

 

Having said that, your idle temps are quite high indeed. Kinda like mine when I posted on here about replacing laptop thermal paste.

 

Replace the paste and clean your heatsink. You'll love the results.

 

I have made a make-shift cooling system until i sort it out. It's basically 4 books on top of a fan but having the air come in through 2 gaps and out through 2 others lol its dropped the heat by about 5 degrees though but it will do for now.

 

I also have a Juice Cube (Battery) connected to the fan so if the laptop overheats and cuts out the fan will keep going for about an hour 

 

 

 

 

~Dust in the wind~

 

You have to clean it up at least 1 time every 4-6 months. I just cleaned mine up and it idles at 40C instead of 80C

 

I found a spider nest inside  

My mate irl said that, but the problem is that if i break something i'm screwed as its my work station pretty much i might just do a quick dust and see what happens...

[Mojo-Jojo]

You can always buy a duster can and only clean the dust out.

[Sintezza]

temps look normal to me, for an older intel laptop.

 

Laptops dont have a great airflow in the first place, so yeah they run hot very easaly.

Maybe some dust came in trough the years, maybe a good clean could do some wonders.

[Najuno]

I see that a lot with Laptops. Many people are using them in the wrong way (like having them too much on soft surfaces like couch or bed) or get problems because of dust and dirt. My advice here is to first clean the laptops heat exchange system. All the channels and vents. The usual air canes might me not good enough for that, because they are relativelly fast empty. I have a small air compressor (you can get these at Home Depot i.e. for some dollars) and carefully try to get as much dust out of it as I can when somebody wants me to fix their Laptop heat issues.

What you also could do is get a cooling pad for the Laptop. They are not awesome for every Laptop but help you usually to knock down the temps a good piece.

 

GreetZ Naj

[Leonard]

Just a "tad"