ivy bridge overheat - should i be worried?

[sjefferson]

some websites are reporting that ivy bridge tends to overheat, leaving smaller overclocking headroom. i couldn't care less. and the benchmarks so far seem to be based on desktop ivy bridge cpus...

they speculate that it's due to the smaller die area and intel changing production method on heat spreader... or something. (i'm not too technically inclined)

my worry is that... is the mobile ivy bridge cpus equally affected by this production method change, and consequently exposed to this overheat problem, like its desktop peers?

i get my lappy with 3820qm tomorrow and i plan to run some benchmark. what do you guys suggest i run to check the overheat problem, if any?

[Hendrick4life]

Well for one thing, I wouldn't be worried. A Desktop and Laptop is just Apples and Oranges. The Mobile CPU will perform and be different than a Desktop CPU.

When you run your benchmarks you can use HWMonitor to check the temps.

For permanent temperature readings in the taskbar get SpeedFan. You can also use that to check the temperatures too, but if your not to worried about looking at your temps all the time just use HWMonitor.

[Syberia]

I heard it had something to do with the fact that you have to increase the voltage a lot more than you did with Sandy Bridge chips to achieve similar overclocks, and that's the reason for the overheating. Temps at stock clocks should be fine, and stock clocks should be more than fast enough for whatever you need to do.

[funky monk]

It should be less of a problem than with the desktop processors. Part of the reason why the desktop processors are getting hot is because intel skimped on this generation and used thermal paste to join the heat spreader rather than solder to reduce costs.

Mobile processors don't have a heat spreader so you shouldn't have to worry as much. When the mobile processors start to come out, we'll see how much it's to do with the TIM and how much it's just down to the new transistors.

[R3d]

IVB seems to run at similar temperatures to SB, so you don't have to worry.