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I have an 8600M GS in my dv9700t. This laptop was getting REALLY HOT so I got a 17" Rosewill laptop cooler with 2 fans. However, today I hooked up a second monitor and threw PC Wizard's Temperature page up on it while I played Half Life 2 Deathmatch and Team Fortress 2. Temperatures got up past 90 degrees Celsius quite often, even though it was on a cooling pad with the fans on. This was at stock clock frequencies (500 core / 1000 shader / 400 memory). The only way to cool it down a bit is to use it on my lap, where the bottom fan intake can get some air through it (lowers to around 85 degrees). After a bit of overclocking, it got hotter, but I turned it back to normal to prevent this.
Why would it get so hot when it is sitting on a desk (aren't these things designed to cool the GPU...?) or a cooling pad (cools the CPU pretty well but the GPU gets really hot still). I don't get why HP thought putting the fan intake on the bottom was a good idea, and I think that's why it's getting hot. What is the "temperature limit" on an 8600M GS?
Why would it get so hot when it is sitting on a desk (aren't these things designed to cool the GPU...?) or a cooling pad (cools the CPU pretty well but the GPU gets really hot still). I don't get why HP thought putting the fan intake on the bottom was a good idea, and I think that's why it's getting hot. What is the "temperature limit" on an 8600M GS?