My mums laptop is too damn hot

[Lord Nicoll]

Damn, so it seems the I5-3317u is hitting around 70°C with an average load of between 25%-35%. Why do laptop makes do that, I know it's only recently that ultra low TDP chip came around but like 70°C under light use is just not acceptable, I'd imagine the thermal paste is not so good after all these years too. I'm tempted to run AIDA 64 on the CPU and iGPU to see how hot she gets but I don't want to make it thermal throttle. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite Z930-13N for those playing a long at home.  

 

What a heap of crap, also the suppression capacitor in the charger passes 120 or so volts through too, and I'm earthed so everything I touch it or type, if it touches off my soft inner forearm I get a tingle zap that hurts. Fuck I hate switch mode power supplies sometimes. Lucky the current is the micro amps. 

[Soundsystem90]

It's normal, laptops can hit 90c just fine so long as it is not throttling.

[Megah3rtz]

make sure its not too dusty assuming shes had it for awhile 

[Lord Nicoll]

1 minute ago, Soundsystem90 said:

It's normal, laptops can hit 90c just fine so long as it is not throttling.

I know it's normal but fuck I hate it, There isn't that much heat in watts coming off it, the back is like *cold, warm, warm, hot* and the amount of heat is tiny, but the actual temperature is high. The PCMR part of me in dying,  

[ARikozuM]

I would just clean the laptop and do a clean install if possible in case some of the power management settings were bad.

[iamdarkyoshi]

4 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

What a heap of crap, also the suppression capacitor in the charger passes 120 or so volts through too, and I'm earthed so everything I touch it or type, if it touches off my soft inner forearm I get a tingle zap that hurts. Fuck I hate switch mode power supplies sometimes. Lucky the current is the micro amps. 

VERY common, even on grounded input PSUs

[Lord Nicoll]

11 minutes ago, Megah3rtz said:

make sure its not too dusty assuming shes had it for awhile 

I can't tell, the vent is tiny with a pathetic fan, I used a vacuum for a few seconds (hopefully didn't kill the pathetic excuse for a fan) but it didn't help much) 

10 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

 but the actual temperature is high. The PCMR part of me in dying,  

Just slap a damn PURE ROCK on it and ziptie the bastard to your shower head for instant warm water.

10 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

I would just clean the laptop and do a clean install if possible in case some of the power management settings were bad.

Can't open, it's a got a fragile magnesium casing and security screws, not work my time. 

10 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

VERY common, even on grounded input PSUs

Yeah I know, I use that technique too to suppress the noise when I make my own SMPS, I love those X and Y class capacitors but the metal grounded case is annoying. 

[iamdarkyoshi]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

I can't tell, the vent is tiny with a pathetic fan, I used a vacuum for a few seconds (hopefully didn't kill the pathetic excuse for a fan) but it didn't help much) 

Open it up and clean out any dust, and replace the thermal paste.

Then try this

 

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

Open it up and clean out any dust, and replace the thermal paste.

Then try this

 

 

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Can't open, it's a got a fragile magnesium casing and security screws, not work my time. 

 

[iamdarkyoshi]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

Can't open, it's a got a fragile magnesium casing and security screws, not work my time. 

Thats really stupid.

 

Place a thermometer as far into the cooling vent as possible and measure the airflow temps.

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

Thats really stupid.

 

Place a thermometer as far into the cooling vent as possible and measure the airflow temps.

I lost my thermocouple, I'll have to look for it. I'll get back on the exhaust temps

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

I lost my thermocouple, I'll have to look for it. I'll get back on the exhaust temps

It's a Satellite! Just send it into orbit so it can heat Jupiter or Saturn so that we can occupy it.

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

It's a Satellite! Just send it into orbit so it can heat Jupiter or Saturn so that we can occupy it.

That pun... hurt... Plus those are gas giants, good luck with the *crushing* sense of failure when you land deep within it's solidified liquid and gas landscape. 

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

That pun... hurt... Plus those are gas giants, good luck with the *crushing* sense of failure when you land deep within it's solidified liquid and gas landscape. 

Licensed veterinarian hence no NASA tag?

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

Licensed veterinarian hence no NASA tag?

not getting any better there mate

 

[ARikozuM]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

not getting any better there mate

 

I'm not a astrologist (I know, I know).

[Lord Nicoll]

OMFG..... I tried AIDA64's stress test with the CPU and iGPU and it literally shutdown.... I had scheduled an Avast! Boot time scan so it's doing that so I assume it's not broken, but my heart for a minute there. I don't wanna have to loan my mum my ROG G750 while I pay for this laptop to be fixed..... Oh no, during the scan, as I'm writing this, it just shut off again, well there goes my new PC build I was planning. 

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

OMFG..... I tried AIDA64's stress test with the CPU and iGPU and it literally shutdown.... I had scheduled an Avast! Boot time scan so it's doing that so I assume it's not broken, but my heart for a minute there. I don't wanna have to loan my mum my ROG G750 while I pay for this laptop to be fixed..... Oh no, during the scan, as I'm writing this, it just shut off again, well there goes my new PC build I was planning. 

Ok no it still works, I think I need to see that cooling system, now where the fuck is my torq security bits, fml

 

[Lord Nicoll]

3 minutes ago, Lord Nicoll said:

Ok no it still works, I think I need to see that cooling system, now where the fuck is my torq security bits, fml

 

hmm, it is still randomly turning off, idle CPU usage can also be high, wtf is this doing. 

[Canada EH]

Buy a laptop cooler.

Fixed.

[Lord Nicoll]

Just now, Canada EH said:

Buy a laptop cooler.

Fixed.

The base doesn't get that hot, it wouldn't really do all that much. 

[Canada EH]

Water cool the beast!

[Lord Nicoll]

2 minutes ago, Canada EH said:

Water cool the beast!

hmm, I can imagine my moms face handing back her sleek small light business machine with a corsair H55 handing off the bottom of it and a 12v fan hub glued on with a separate 12 power plug. She he soo happy she'd kill me lol. 

[ARikozuM]

1 minute ago, Lord Nicoll said:

hmm, I can imagine my moms face handing back her sleek small light business machine with a corsair H55 handing off the bottom of it and a 12v fan hub glued on with a separate 12 power plug. She he soo happy she'd kill me lol. 

For science?

[Lord Nicoll]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

For science?

I like my balls where they are, not half way up inside me thank you very much.