
Try the laptop cooler idea, but look at the bottom of your laptop to see if there are any intake holes, if there are, and plenty, then the cooler will help. Using something with a very high thermal conductivity usually lowers the temperature by a few degrees. There are ways you can try to lower the temperature, for example, if you are handy, you can reapply the heatsink compound on the CPU die-heatsink interface. Granted, the cooling system on my laptop isn't as bad as the one on the new Dell XPS, but with both cores taxed, my CPU goes up to 90+ degrees. I did the same on my last C2D based laptop, which ran cooler. It taxes one core heavily and the temperatures hover around 80 degrees cesius.


I have done hundreds if not thousands of hours of simulation workload on my laptop with a Sandy Bridge CPU. The problem is that I can't afford a workstation. On some new Dell XPS models, the throttling is so bad that the CPU is operating below normal frequencies when loaded.Īnyway, not much damage is expected, but you sure aren't getting your money's worth in speed for what you paid for, because the manufacturer skimped on cooling. The throttling mechanism kicks in already around 75 degrees celsius, but only by reducing the turbo bins. Few (MBP retina for example) run around 75 degrees celsius. Tjunction as per Intel for their mobile CPUs are higher than desktop CPUs, and manufacturers typically run their CPUs right up to thermal spec.įor Sandy Bridge m-series, this is 100 degrees celsius, Ivy Bridge, it is 105 degrees celsius.Īs per Anandtech observations and I concur, the vast majority of laptops out there with Sandy/Ivy Bridge CPUs run very hot, 90 degrees celsius hot. Not sure about IB, but SB CPUs the max temp is about 95C at which point the cpu will cut back it's speed to reduce temp (throttling).Īs Others pointed out 2+ hours rendering/encoding is more for a desktop.

Generally Laptop coolers are not very eff, they try to cool the "bottom" when what you need is a higher volume of air going into the vents.Īnd 86 is much to close to max temperature for Long period of time and you want the laptop to last.
