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Geforce 7800 Go idle temperature is 65 - 75 degrees celsius.
Okay so after dell replaced my harddrive, speakers, motherboard, fans, and videocard, another issue came up and they decided to just send a replacement laptop.
Originally I had a i9300 with a Geforce 6800 Go. The replacement is an E1705 with a Geforce 7800 Go.
The original laptop had overheating issues but after they replaced almost every piece, the idle temperature was at an acceptable 50 degrees celcius.
However on the E1705, the idle temperature starts at 63 or so, and is usually at 70. Just opening a program makes it jump to 80 degrees celcius. Should I be worried?
- Are you referring to this forum?
http://www.notebookforums.com/DELL-CORE-DUO--or--CORE-SOLO-Notebooks-f237.htmlI think they use special software / driver to keep the fan ON. I tried that also, temperature will be 62~65C if fan is always on. Joshnor713
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Posted March 26th, 2006 20:00
If you look at the GPU/heatsink, the go7800 has one heatpipe like the go6800, so the E1705 is probably significantly hotter than the 9300 (with go6800) because Dell's using the same heatsink for the go7800 as they did for the go6800. That heatsink was made for the go6800 (a slower card), so anything faster than that card and you're going to feel it because it wasn't made to dissapate that much heat. In actuality, this card isn't even running at the speed it's supposed to, Dell manufacted these much slower, if you look at its specs on the nvidia website, it's supposed to perform a bit better than the go6800ultra. Part of the reason I thought so it wouldn't compete with the XPS, but I figure most of the reason was so they wouldn't have to either attach an extra heatpipe to the heatsink or design it a different way.If you look at it in a business perspective, they really didn't want to go through the trouble of changing the design or giving it the heatsink that the go7800GTX has, so they slowed down the go7800 enough for it to be able to run in there and thus just managing to slip in a go7800 in their next generation with no extra effort and marketing it to us at the cost of performance and temperature (and upset people who didn't know what was coming). Believe it or not, just my 2 cents :smileytongue:. Best wishes.
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Posted March 25th, 2006 04:00
It is normal I think. 7800 is hotter than other video cards. My E1705 with 7800, the GPU temperature raise to 82C then fan start to run, to bring it down to 70C then fan stop running. It goes back to 82C (in about 3 mins), fan start to run again. This is when idle, I don't run any 3D applications.
When I run games or 3DMark06, the fun runs more frequently, and keep the GPU temperature a little lower, swing from 65C to 80C.
Unless the temperature goes over 93C, I don't think it's too high.