Cooling Dell Inspiron N5010 too hot??

Hello i have been playing around on my dell inspiron r15 on sants row3 and othergames.

i worry is i have seen temps getting up to cpu i 3 380m(82c 10min play) and 5650m (83 10min play) is this safe?

i am using the rubbish targus chill mat too help cool.


thanks you for your time

 

bump

 

Its under its 90 limit for the cpu and while I am not exactly sure of the mobility amd temp limits I would guess its over the 80's

They aren't amazing temps by any means but laptops, especially the smaller 15's do run fairly hot. This is due to the smaller chasis being tight and one heat pipe and fan having to cool both the GPU and CPU.

 

I had a friend who has a N5010 with a pentium dual core and that was hitting 88C while playing sims, I stripped it down, replaced the thermal paste and it dropped the temps by over 25C!

 

how hard was it to do?

 

I wasn't too difficult, i'd say the keyboard was the hardest part to remove as it was stuck down with double sided tape! There are guides on the internet and if you go on the dell website you can view the service manual which also tells you how to strip it down. Just make sure you plug everything back in when you reassemble it and don't forget to plug in the fan like I did!

 

I'd wager that it didn't say 25 degrees colder without the fan.

But anyway; Changing the thermal paste is always a good idea on most stuff. I honestly don't know why most manufacturers tend to use such crap for paste most of the time.

 

it is worth noting that if you strip down your laptop your warranty is dust.

That said if it is over a year old go for it, just take your time.

 

the warranty is worth nothing as dell do a rubbish job of fixing it.

anway is this the right way of doing it? :

://blog.parts-people.com/2012/04/18/dell-inspiron-15r-n5010-heat-sink-fan-removal-and-installation/

also do i leave the power plug in too ground? (off switched off at wall)

 

That's how to do it but you don't need to remove the display. I wouldn't leave the power plugged in as i'm sure the cable that goes to the laptop isn't grounded so it will serve no purpose having it plugged in.

 

ok. will arctic silver 5 be ok to use on cpu and gpu. and if so do i apply it is it best to use the pea size blob method.

also how do i ground my self?

last of all..... thanks you for your help

 

Well Arctic say that it is non-conducive so it should be fine. A small pea sized blob on both parts of the cpu and the same for the gpu will be fine. Just remember that they are smaller than a desktop cpu so don't use anywhere near as much as you would on a desktop cpu as you don't want it spilling out from between the chips and the heatsink.

To ground myself I usually touch an exposed part of my central heating system and work in the kitchen to avoid static from carpet.

HTH

 

Also while you're at at, clean all the dust out of the fan and the heatsink as that will also help to reduce temps.

Ignore this if you think i'm stating the obvious!

 

thank you

i think i will wait for the warranty to finish the give it a bash.
i will get back to you if it worked

 

last check. do i apply pea size blob only too the two black blocks on the cpu?

 

I put a individual blob on both parts on the cpu and for yours you will need one on the gpu as well, unless the gpu has a thermal pad on it.

 

since it is under warranty why not tell dell that it is overheating?

 

Because it's not technically overheating. It's just getting alarmingly hot. Dell probably won't pay it much heed. They might take it in and clean out the dust, but they'll charge a fortune for it. It's much better just to replace the TIM and be done with it.