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[#1]

Hi, I have a two year old HP G6000 that's been getting steadily hotter. I opened it up last week to replace the thermal gel and clear out the dust - but it's still hot!

I've checked and the battery's not on the recall list, Speedfan gives me these temperatures:

GPU 64C
HDO 53C
Temp1 70C
Core 50C

And when I open a memory heavy app

GPU 69C
HDO 51C
Temp1 70C
Core 58C

I don't know how to interpret these results - any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I decided to sacrifice a little bit of performance for the sake of cool temperatures and silent fan. I have HP DV6, with AMD Turion RM-74 and HD4650.

So, Yes, You will loose up to 15 percent Your CPU power, but heyh, this processor is so fast that You will barelly notice the change. You will still watch HD content with 720p and everything else smoothly. Note, that gaming will be harder part but consider Your laptop not as a device created for heavy gaming.

At one point or another, during games, someday Your notebook inevitably colapse. It's just not meant for gaming, no matter what the specs are...

No more overheating.

So, how to reduce Your notebook temps:

(i) Power Options -> More power options,

(ii) Balanced plan -> Change settings,

(iii) Change advanced power settings

(iv) Processor power management -> Maximum processor state -> On Battery - 50 percent, Plugged in - 85 percent.

(vi) Save changes and close.

Now, mine temperatures are - idle 48, heavy load - 57, extremelly heavy load (HD 720p content) - 62-63. (At the moment my CPU cores are at 47 celsius).

CPU still works fast, not so fast as it is working on 100 percent, but hey, fan is silent, and if You want gaming - go to Your desktop pc, leave notebook for lighter tasks, even though the notebooks specs are high,

it simply cannot handle the heat.

Best regards.

[#3 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I decided to sacrifice a little bit of performance for the sake of cool temperatures and silent fan. I have HP DV6, with AMD Turion RM-74 and HD4650.

So, Yes, You will loose up to 15 percent Your CPU power, but heyh, this processor is so fast that You will barelly notice the change. You will still watch HD content with 720p and everything else smoothly. Note, that gaming will be harder part but consider Your laptop not as a device created for heavy gaming.

At one point or another, during games, someday Your notebook inevitably colapse. It's just not meant for gaming, no matter what the specs are...

No more overheating.

So, how to reduce Your notebook temps:

(i) Power Options -> More power options,

(ii) Balanced plan -> Change settings,

(iii) Change advanced power settings

(iv) Processor power management -> Maximum processor state -> On Battery - 50 percent, Plugged in - 85 percent.

(vi) Save changes and close.

Now, mine temperatures are - idle 48, heavy load - 57, extremelly heavy load (HD 720p content) - 62-63. (At the moment my CPU cores are at 47 celsius).

CPU still works fast, not so fast as it is working on 100 percent, but hey, fan is silent, and if You want gaming - go to Your desktop pc, leave notebook for lighter tasks, even though the notebooks specs are high,

it simply cannot handle the heat.

Best regards.

[#4 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I decided to sacrifice a little bit of performance for the sake of cool temperatures and silent fan. I have HP DV6, with AMD Turion RM-74 and HD4650.

So, Yes, You will loose up to 15 percent Your CPU power, but heyh, this processor is so fast that You will barelly notice the change. You will still watch HD content with 720p and everything else smoothly. Note, that gaming will be harder part but consider Your laptop not as a device created for heavy gaming.

At one point or another, during games, someday Your notebook inevitably colapse. It's just not meant for gaming, no matter what the specs are...

No more overheating.

So, how to reduce Your notebook temps:

(i) Power Options -> More power options,

(ii) Balanced plan -> Change settings,

(iii) Change advanced power settings

(iv) Processor power management -> Maximum processor state -> On Battery - 50 percent, Plugged in - 85 percent.

(vi) Save changes and close.

Now, mine temperatures are - idle 48, heavy load - 57, extremelly heavy load (HD 720p content) - 62-63. (At the moment my CPU cores are at 47 celsius).

CPU still works fast, not so fast as it is working on 100 percent, but hey, fan is silent, and if You want gaming - go to Your desktop pc, leave notebook for lighter tasks, even though the notebooks specs are high,

it simply cannot handle the heat.

Best regards.

[#5 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

I decided to sacrifice a little bit of performance for the sake of cool temperatures and silent fan. I have HP DV6, with AMD Turion RM-74 and HD4650.

So, Yes, You will loose up to 15 percent Your CPU power, but heyh, this processor is so fast that You will barelly notice the change. You will still watch HD content with 720p and everything else smoothly. Note, that gaming will be harder part but consider Your laptop not as a device created for heavy gaming.

At one point or another, during games, someday Your notebook inevitably colapse. It's just not meant for gaming, no matter what the specs are...

No more overheating.

So, how to reduce Your notebook temps:

(i) Power Options -> More power options,

(ii) Balanced plan -> Change settings,

(iii) Change advanced power settings

(iv) Processor power management -> Maximum processor state -> On Battery - 50 percent, Plugged in - 85 percent.

(vi) Save changes and close.

Now, mine temperatures are - idle 48, heavy load - 57, extremelly heavy load (HD 720p content) - 62-63. (At the moment my CPU cores are at 47 celsius).

CPU still works fast, not so fast as it is working on 100 percent, but hey, fan is silent, and if You want gaming - go to Your desktop pc, leave notebook for lighter tasks, even though the notebooks specs are high,

it simply cannot handle the heat.

Best regards.

[#6]

Thanks very much, I'll give it a try!

[#7]

Speed fan doesn't give accurate temp readings use CPUID HWMonitor and post up the temp readings from that.

ignore temp1 as that is a misreading i had the same problem with speedfan , your cpu/gpu temps are fine perfectly normal a laptop and roughly the same as mine, your harddrive is running a little hot which is quite worrying harddrives run hotter than normal when there about to die, if like my laptop the harddrive should have a vent to allow air in/out buy a active cooling pad and place it so it's blowing air in that vent works great for me -3 to 4c off my harddrive temp it will increase its life span aswell. 

[#8]

Much better - cheers!

[#9]

You're welcome. Also, You can experiment with processor state and set it to match Your needs. I.E. now i set up my processor to 99 percent and it is not overheating nor giving me terrible temps.

As long as MAX state is not 100 percent, it seems everything is fine.