Laptop CPU Thermals

[SpookyIsReal]

Hello LTT forum,

Firstly, I would like to apologize if i'm doing anything wrong & should've put this somewhere else, no idea how this site works, (new user).

Anyway, I have a Dell Latitude E5420, a 2011 model laptop with a i5-2410m that would occasionally shut down due to overheating. I've cleaned the cpu & heatsink of old thermal paste & reapplied the paste. I had made a very bad mistake of not testing thermals before I had done the operation. But it was a decent bit hotter than after. But at idle it sits around 50-59C, Adequate use (browsing the internet, youtube, twitter, etc) around 57-57C & Full load tops at 70C. Could anyone please tell me if this is bad, good, or decent thermals keeping in mind all it is is a business laptop from 2011.

Thank you,

Ariel

[Gaurav S Rao]

Try Cleaning The Vents next yo the cpu,maybe taht might help

[SpookyIsReal]

Just now, Gaurav S Rao said:

Try Cleaning The Vents next yo the cpu,maybe taht might help

Already done, clean those quite frequently. The cpu is located around the middle of the board, but the heatsink transfers out of the left side about 2 inches up from the cpu

[Gaurav S Rao]

Same Thing is happening to my desktop,my guess is that the cpu cooler might have given up

On 4/7/2017 at 8:04 PM, SpookyIsReal said:

Already done, clean those quite frequently. The cpu is located around the middle of the board, but the heatsink transfers out of the left side about 2 inches up from the cpu

 

[SpookyIsReal]

1 minute ago, Gaurav S Rao said:

Same Thing is happening to my desktop,my guess is that the cpu cooler might have given up

 

the fan is always spinning in the laptop. It kicks up quite a bit under stress, but runs fairly quiet at idle. For your desktop, maybe do the same, clean vents, reapply paste?

[Gaurav S Rao]

My desktop always has the fans reved up and i have reapplied thermal paste on it, still not difference,the thing mostly shuts down before completing post (it starts posting and like when its reading from the hdd to load a os it shuts down) anyway its a Core 2 Duo Rig,Probably Worthless