GPU getting 200+ Fahrenheit Dangerous?

[Louise]

Hey there techies, Im having...an Issue. It's worrying me greatly, the gpu on my laptop reaches an impressive 200~221 *Max i've witnessed* F even when running low-graphics intensive games like Mabinogi. Is this a sign of it dieing/ separating from the board?

Heres the specs of the laptop:

Hewlett Packard DV6449us
160GB HDD~ 2.62GB DDR2
1.8GHZ ~ Turion X2 TL-56
NVIDIA GeForce 6150
Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit
Installed ram is PC2-6400 ~ 4GB From Kingston.
*Tried Enabling all 4GB Via PAE*


Laptop heats up to point where the touch-pad burns within 3hours, Wificard is also getting worse, possibly from the heat?

[fohfoh]

200F? Approx 93C?

Hmm.. I've seen worse than that on mine. But yes, it's an issue. (I've tried to keep it going beyond 91C ever since I had the mobo replaced) Sooner or later, the mobo will fry.

Only thing you can do...

#1: Get more air flow to the laptop. Get a pen or something and ramp up one side of the bottom when it's on a table. Let the air get underneath.

#2: Get a laptop cooling pad. Seriously worth the investment.

#3: If under warranty, fry the fucker and get it replaced. Then, treat it nicely when you get the fixes done.


But yes, that heat is bad.

[Louise]

200F? Approx 93C?

Hmm.. I've seen worse than that on mine. But yes, it's an issue. (I've tried to keep it going beyond 91C ever since I had the mobo replaced) Sooner or later, the mobo will fry.

Only thing you can do...

#1: Get more air flow to the laptop. Get a pen or something and ramp up one side of the bottom when it's on a table. Let the air get underneath.

#2: Get a laptop cooling pad. Seriously worth the investment.

#3: If under warranty, fry the fucker and get it replaced. Then, treat it nicely when you get the fixes done.


But yes, that heat is bad.

It's nolonger under warranty, tho it was repaired 6 times when it was, things included mobo swap, wifi card swap, hdd swap ;;.
It IS on a cooling pad D: 91C? it was like... 118c...

[Spanks]

Sounds like you have a nice heater there for winter. Its not going to blow up or anything but It will run slower at those or higher temps.

[fohfoh]

I've seen upwards of 98c when I first used my laptop (Easily went over that). It was a display model and always having issues, so I used the Nvidia Go on purpose and accidentally burned it out. Good thing it was under warranty.

If the computer continues that with the laptop fan, something is wrong. It's gg for it. Back up your stuff, wipe it out and find a way to get lower resource usage on it. Consider a new laptop now. You'll be able to continue using it, but who knows for how long.

[Louise]

Sounds like you have a nice heater there for winter.

Where I live, A heater isnt needed ;; My room is like a sauna. Even in winter, I have no fan...yeah.
It heats up like that rather fast though,vents all underneath, Such a fail design.

I've seen upwards of 98c when I first used my laptop (Easily went over that). It was a display model and always having issues, so I used the Nvidia Go on purpose and accidentally burned it out. Good thing it was under warranty.

If the computer continues that with the laptop fan, something is wrong. It's gg for it. Back up your stuff, wipe it out and find a way to get lower resource usage on it. Consider a new laptop now. You'll be able to continue using it, but who knows for how long.

It's my "Anime" Lappy, Im using another now. But that's the only one which actually plays/decodes HD & H.264 or w.e ;; this one lags, lags, lags.

[fohfoh]

Yeah, I assumed so when I saw the specs. I almost bought one of those back in the day till I saw many comments about issues with those series. (I've avoided HP, Dell, compaq, gateway and several other brands since due to the design of their case)

If all you need is anime, maybe consider a new laptop for normal use (research well to make sure it won't have heat problems) and then put HTPC OS on the laptop?

[Louise]

Yeah, I assumed so when I saw the specs. I almost bought one of those back in the day till I saw many comments about issues with those series. (I've avoided HP, Dell, compaq, gateway and several other brands since due to the design of their case)

If all you need is anime, maybe consider a new laptop for normal use (research well to make sure it won't have heat problems) and then put HTPC OS on the laptop?

New one is gateway, but ;; My friend has an ASUS, same cpu but an ATI gpu *256MB*, same price as mine *64MB* ;;

the HP DV6 series, as ive experienced are Problem childs. this gateway's fan placements arent that bad actually, I use it on the bed alot & it doesnt heat up much at all.

[fohfoh]

Gateway has some that are decent, but have a few problem lines too. I never bothered to check them in depth. I just went with other brands.

[Louise]

Gateway has some that are decent, but have a few problem lines too. I never bothered to check them in depth. I just went with other brands.

NV series are decent for everyday/school pc's If you change the Vertex proccessing to software for some game's they will run stellar.

$479 gateway runs crysis with vertex proccessing on software ;; win win. ASUS though, omfg. the fan placement and spec's for the laptop friend has outdoes the gateway majorly ;; and it like..stays cool for ages and ages.

 About the heat, Im worried the GPU will separate from the motherboard.

[fohfoh]

Asus isn't bad. Some have issues, but it's a very small minority. It's good and cheap power. Lenovo is my personal choice though. I'm considering getting one of these later. It's a good tough and durable notebook that isn't as insane as the panasonic toughbook.

[Louise]

Asus isn't bad. Some have issues, but it's a very small minority. It's good and cheap power. Lenovo is my personal choice though. I'm considering getting one of these later. It's a good tough and durable notebook that isn't as insane as the panasonic toughbook.

;; "durable" my... ;;  My mother used one of those for work, I accidentally dropped it once. Byebye Lenovo ThinkPad.

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On her replacement, I put one of those fake internet explorer icons that goes like "WARNING A VIRUS HAS BEEN FOUND!! SHUTTING DOWN IN 1 MINUTE" and runs shutdown.exe, she took it to the tech department and they cudnt find the said virus, but it kept happening. so with frustration they swapped it out AGAIN. I told them what I did later on ;; No one cared to check the icon's source!

[fohfoh]

I've never had issues with lenovo. Toshiba have generally been ok, but they're sort of weaksauce.

[BuriaL]

EDIT: Misread something

If youre GPU is at 90C+ you got a problem.
I think the reccomended max temprature for the dual/quad core is about 65C. It prolly depends on the age of the processor. Newer ones are made to handle more heat.
Think the max for my old gpu, 4870 were 85C. Since youres is older id say it need help.

Iam not completly sure about this, but if it were my computer id do something about it. Before it goes to sleep, permanently.

[Louise]

EDIT: Misread something

If youre GPU is at 90C+ you got a problem.
I think the reccomended max temprature for the dual/quad core is about 65C. It prolly depends on the age of the processor. Newer ones are made to handle more heat.
Think the max for my old gpu, 4870 were 85C. Since youres is older id say it need help.

Iam not completly sure about this, but if it were my computer id do something about it. Before it goes to sleep, permanently.

I googled it a bit, Alot of DV6, DV9 models went under recall the other year due to issues like not powering on, wifi, screen not showing, etc. I went to the nvidia forums and found an old post, one person said the heat damaged their wifi card *probally my issue* and part of the mobo itself, *which explains why they changed it* It also explains why the wifi issue was never fixed for more then a week after recieving it back from repair, until the mobo got switched under recall. They probally replaced the wificard, but the heat killed it just as quick. the GeForce & Chipset from that laptop is 95nm, btw. After doing MORE research the critial temp for the 6150 is 135c, so...hopefully it doesnt reach that point -.- but someone mentioned something about a modified BIOS to keep fans running on high, the lappy alrdy sounds like an airplane. Im going to try to find that.

[Sosseres]

If there is a fan controlled by the graphics card's drivers then riva tuner should work for setting fan speeds. I use it for that on my stationary in order to hear when the temp ramps up and knowing that is the source of any BSOD.

[Louise]

If there is a fan controlled by the graphics card's drivers then riva tuner should work for setting fan speeds. I use it for that on my stationary in order to hear when the temp ramps up and knowing that is the source of any BSOD.

Downloading it now, Lol it was funny...how when I bought this, the system got hot with 20min so I called HP, they checked it out, they said the BIOS it was loaded on was the wrong one ._. how the heck does that happen?!


edit: have riva installed, NFI what to do

[Sosseres]

The easiest way is probably:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9027555

I set it up in a totally different way so not sure if that works at all. Perhaps it would have been smarter to start out with GPU-Z (or similar) to see if you even have a fan controlled by the GPU or if it is on passive cooling...

[relic2279]

If youre GPU is at 90C+ you got a problem.
I think the reccomended max temprature for the dual/quad core is about 65C. It prolly depends on the age of the processor. Newer ones are made to handle more heat.

GPU's are not CPU's.

GPU's always run hotter than CPU's. Modern ones anyways. They're made for it.
90c is most definitely tolerable. It won't fry your chip. Breaking 100c should be your cutoff mark, because that will damage the GPU. In a laptop, this will compound the heat due to lack of space. It seems the 6150 has a problem with heat dissipation glancing at some forum posts. I'd head over to overclock.net and ask for solutions. They're an intelligent bunch.

[Louise]

The easiest way is probably:

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=9027555

I set it up in a totally different way so not sure if that works at all. Perhaps it would have been smarter to start out with GPU-Z (or similar) to see if you even have a fan controlled by the GPU or if it is on passive cooling...

Followed guide, it picked up nothing on graphics card.
Here's GPU-Z screenies, maybe it'll help.