Watching my latop getting hotter and hotter

Raaagh · 17th June 2007, 10:35 PM

My blasted 9400 has given me ringing in my ears (tinitis or is it tinitus?). I suspect the fans are going but Im not looking forward to trying to get the dell people to replace them.

So I went and downloaded I8kfanGUI, http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html

to my surprise the fans stopped in auto "meeting" mode, i loaded up speed fan and my temps have been steadily increasing

temps as follows

HD0: 37C
Temp1: 55C
Core0: 50C
Core1: 48C
CPU: 50C
GPU 47C
DIM: 77C (and rising)
Temp4:51C

actually the left fan is now doing low speed pulses.

So that DIMM temp - is that fine?

With this program, it is SOOO MUCH BETTER than the fan whining hell Im used to.

THis is at Idle forced to lowest clock 1gig (using notebook hardware control)

Raaagh · 17th June 2007, 10:46 PM

I8kfanGUI says the memory is about 52C, maybe the DIMM is an erroneous reading.

Rezin · 17th June 2007, 10:58 PM

Might have to try that for my 9300 - just to check the temps, not change any fan speeds. In your first post you refer to it as "DIM" and "DIMM" - did you miss a M in "DIM" or is that how it's reported as?

Raaagh · 17th June 2007, 11:21 PM

Ah, yes,
DIMM it is

Update: letting the dell control the fans, everything is mucht he same, except the DIMM which is lower at 63C

bennyg · 18th June 2007, 1:13 PM

YYYYEEEEEESSSSSSS! just the prog i was looking for

Was getting sick of watching cpu temps go to 70C before the fan turns on, down to 40C, then off, rinse and repeat. Was giving me the shits...

I did find with "automatic temp control" I had to deselect the "enable hardware sensor support" on the profiles page to get the fan to turn on - when you have the 0-63 scale setup with that I couldn't get the fan on at all. I only have "slow" and "fast" fan speeds to select, but who cares, slow is more than enough and is as quiet as the hard drive

I have (shiny new) Latitude D620 w/ T7200. Currently have it set up to be no fan under 50C, slow fan under 70C, fast fan over 70C. Never heard fast fan. I read somewhere that expansion/contraction due to temp changes kills CPUs over the long-term as well. Might look that up in more detail when I have time (ha).

Why can't they have this shit in BIOS or some windows program, with safeguards to stop noobs melting their lappy of course.

17th June 2007, 10:35 PM	#1
Raaagh Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Adelaide, Posts: 1,052	Watching my latop getting hotter and hotter My blasted 9400 has given me ringing in my ears (tinitis or is it tinitus?). I suspect the fans are going but Im not looking forward to trying to get the dell people to replace them. So I went and downloaded I8kfanGUI, http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html to my surprise the fans stopped in auto "meeting" mode, i loaded up speed fan and my temps have been steadily increasing temps as follows HD0: 37C Temp1: 55C Core0: 50C Core1: 48C CPU: 50C GPU 47C DIM: 77C (and rising) Temp4:51C actually the left fan is now doing low speed pulses. So that DIMM temp - is that fine? With this program, it is SOOO MUCH BETTER than the fan whining hell Im used to. THis is at Idle forced to lowest clock 1gig (using notebook hardware control) __________________ Folding for OCAU trades: finnigan, JeffK Quake Live Players: OZ/NZ Frag Video - Call for demos

17th June 2007, 10:46 PM	#2
Raaagh Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Adelaide, Posts: 1,052	I8kfanGUI says the memory is about 52C, maybe the DIMM is an erroneous reading. __________________ Folding for OCAU trades: finnigan, JeffK Quake Live Players: OZ/NZ Frag Video - Call for demos

17th June 2007, 11:21 PM	#4
Raaagh Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Adelaide, Posts: 1,052	Ah, yes, DIMM it is Update: letting the dell control the fans, everything is mucht he same, except the DIMM which is lower at 63C __________________ Folding for OCAU trades: finnigan, JeffK Quake Live Players: OZ/NZ Frag Video - Call for demos

18th June 2007, 1:13 PM	#5
bennyg Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Melbourne, Oztraya Posts: 684	YYYYEEEEEESSSSSSS! just the prog i was looking for Was getting sick of watching cpu temps go to 70C before the fan turns on, down to 40C, then off, rinse and repeat. Was giving me the shits... I did find with "automatic temp control" I had to deselect the "enable hardware sensor support" on the profiles page to get the fan to turn on - when you have the 0-63 scale setup with that I couldn't get the fan on at all. I only have "slow" and "fast" fan speeds to select, but who cares, slow is more than enough and is as quiet as the hard drive I have (shiny new) Latitude D620 w/ T7200. Currently have it set up to be no fan under 50C, slow fan under 70C, fast fan over 70C. Never heard fast fan. I read somewhere that expansion/contraction due to temp changes kills CPUs over the long-term as well. Might look that up in more detail when I have time (ha). Why can't they have this shit in BIOS or some windows program, with safeguards to stop noobs melting their lappy of course. __________________ Successful traders: 3/3: Brax, Zubrick, nvidiaXP Value: $125 Pending:- Coming soon: Asus G51J-A1, i7 720qm, 4Gb DDR3-1066, GTX260M@500/1250/800, 15.6" 1080p, 80Gb SSD, 320Gb HDD Soon-to-be-old lappy: Dell Vostro 1500, T9300/3Gb DDR667/8600GT@550/1200/475/320Gb/15.4" UWXGA \| Older lappy, Dell Latitude D620, T7200/2GbDDR2-667/GMA950/60Gb/14.1" Last edited by bennyg; 18th June 2007 at 1:15 PM.

17th June 2007, 10:58 PM	#3
Rezin Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 5,270	Might have to try that for my 9300 - just to check the temps, not change any fan speeds. In your first post you refer to it as "DIM" and "DIMM" - did you miss a M in "DIM" or is that how it's reported as?