Cores overheating?

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I have an HP Envy 17 1011nr, it’s running windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit, Intel i7 2760MQ 2.0 GHZ upgraded processor. Used.

TL;DR:

Is it okay for an HP Envy 17’s cores’ heat to be in the 60-80C range? Not the overall temp but the cores. Though the temp does go into the 50-60C according to SpeedFan. HD0 level stays between 30-50C. I do understand that Envys are notorious for being hot anyway and I don’t really do anything heavy on this laptop; I just mostly need it for writing, videos, and light gaming so I think I can live with it but I don’t want to damage the laptop any further if that’s a possibility. Is this a thermal paste job?

The whole situation:

1 or 2 years ago my hard drive failed, I’ve only just managed to get a hold of a new one. I’ve installed it with little to no problem so in the past couple of days I’ve been trying to get my laptop to more or less how I had it before. I’m not sure if my drivers from the HP site work flawlessly in it since my laptop was an upgraded one and the ones on HP seemed quite basic and some wouldn’t even download.

Now when I got the OS and everything mostly up and running my computer started to overheat over the littlest things and would cut off. I downloaded SpeedFan and the temp would easily run into 80’s-90’s. I make sure the room is cool and that there’s room for airflow around the vents.

Since Envy fans are so far in I was hesitant to open it up and possibly damage my computer though I have no fear of warranty since it ran out a while ago. But, unfortunately, the over heating rendered It virtually useless so I had no choice but to open it and see if a fan cleaning would help.

I dissembled the Envy as per instructions. The fan area was very dirty and hard to get to. I didn’t have any compressed air but I cleaned it the best I could with a lint free towel, a flexible plastic toothpick that has one of those comb like ends and q-tips (which I used only minimally because of lint they give off). Afterwards I closed it and booted up. The fan became way quieter but was still overheating. I looked at the paper that came with my laptop and it showed that it came with a AMD Radeon 6850M 1GB GDDR5 upgraded graphics card so I downloaded the AMD driver compatible with my hardware and OS. This improved the situation significantly, it doesn’t shut off, and it doesn’t get too hot but the cores and temp still go into the 60’-70’s sometimes 80’s if I’m pushing it. Is this normal and is there anyway I can fix it if it isn’t?

[iomare · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It seems that this Cpu runs quite hot. Use some compressed air to keep the vents of the notebook free of dust buildup.

Having said this, I wouldn't worry too much about temps of 70-80 degrees as the intel specifications give the throttle temperature for your Cpu at 100 degrees.

http://ark.intel.com/products/53469/Intel-Core-i7-2670QM-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_10-GHz

Hope it helps,

David