M1530 temperature fluctuations when idle

[Salty85]

Hello, I have a new M1530, and I noticed some wierd temps. Can someone tell me if this is normal. Thank you very much.

Specs:
M1530
Windows XP SP3
T8100 Stock clock speed/voltage
Nvidia 8600M GT Stock Speed (with non high-lead solder)
3 GB Ram
120 GB seagate 7200 RPM HDD (not affected by new flash firmware)
9 Cell Lifting back battery
Everest used for CPU test and Temp Readings
3dMark06 used for GPU test, standard test.
A12 Bios
Dell 174 Driver (LV2G makes my temps a lot higher in the past)

Idle:
CPU: 39-50c
GPU: 58-69c

Temperatures Cycle every 5-15 minutes with fan Kicking on.

CPU stress test:
CPU: 56c Max Each core, 58c main CPU sensor
GPU: 62c

GPU stress test:
CPU: 61c per core max, 66c main sensor
GPU: 76c Max (dropped to 60 a few seconds after test)

[rohangarg]

Almost same temps here
GPU:55-69 Light browsing
GPU:61-65 Idle
CPU is same as yours
so they are normal temps,also do this test for max temps http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/
mine is 74 at the max for GPU

[Salty85]

Nice, thanks.

What driver do you use?

[rohangarg]

im on 179.28,they are the new ones from nVidia which support physX and CUDA

[Salty85]

I was eyeing those, I will try them out. Thanks for all the help, it seems unfortunate that we have such a high amount of temp fluctuations.

[fonduekid]

What exactly do you mean by idle?

If it means you are just browsing and such, then I think the GPU will anyway go through the cycles, since it has to render your desktop or whatever is on it.

Having said that, those temperatures you are seeing are normal and nothing unusual about it. Cheers.

[Salty85]

Idle, I am using another computer while the notebook just sits there and I watch the temperature gauges.

[fonduekid]

Ah, well, I find mine staying around 58-60 in such a scenario, though not always - sometimes it keeps going through the cycles.. Still, nothing to be alarmed about it, IMHO.

[rohangarg]

Originally Posted by fonduekid

What exactly do you mean by idle?

If it means you are just browsing and such, then I think the GPU will anyway go through the cycles, since it has to render your desktop or whatever is on it.

Having said that, those temperatures you are seeing are normal and nothing unusual about it. Cheers.

Totally agree with him,your temps also depend on the ambient room temperature

[Salty85]

Thank you very much. This is my first experience with Nvidia for anything related to a computer.