How hot it is your laptop??

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JJ650

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I am getting some really high temps coming from the bottom of my laptop where the ram is. It gets hot enough to the point that it doesn't feel very good on bare skin.

Everything seems to work fine with it. Windows isn't crashing or anything and it stays running. I am just concerned about the effects of continuos high temps.

The laptop itself is a MicronPC TransPort XT2 w/P3 1ghz (tualatin), with 1gig of ram. It's made by MicronPC.

If the ram were faulty, wouldn't I be having other issues with it in windows???
 
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Maximilian

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Its probably not the RAM thats causing the heat. My 1.4ghz tualatin lappy (i broke it) gets a hotspot near the floppy drive, just assumed the cpu or the hdd was to blame. BTW i had to clean that thing out a few times as it would overheat and reset itsself. also resorted to propping it up, using four really fat candles, to give the cpu fan room to breath as it was idling in the 50's.
 
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unfalliblekrutch

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my HP laptop could hit 60-65 C on the cpu (athlon XP)
it hit up to 50C on the HDD
note: temps are on continuous load.
 
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JJ650

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I took it apart to see exactly where the cpu is in an effort to better tell where the source of the high heat is. It's no where near the cpu, and the mini PCI card is cool. The ram is the source of the heat. I just found it weird that it gets that hot. Having it in your lap is quite uncomfortable & leaving it sitting on a table while running could spell bad news for it as well in the long run.
I did leave it on for a bit and it took the memory cover off as soon as I diconnected the power. The dimms were pretty toasty.
 
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fire400

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dtr notebook with Pentium4 - 3.2GHz w/HT

very very warm, generates so much heat that you start to wonder if the very plastic that seals the laptop together would actually melt... MELT~!!!!!!!
 
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It's a tualatin. They get very hot. An advanced version of thermal management is undervolting the processor so that it is usable but outputs less heat with less voltage. Programs like rmclock and Notebook Hardware Control allow you to do this.
 
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It may be the M-Radeon 7500 above the RAM, but my ram cover is burning hot. I can't touch it for more than 2 seconds after long 3D games (especially if I didn't give good ventilation to the base during that tmie.
 
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tuteja1986

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mine don't get hot ever because i have a p3 500mhz + 64mb ram + windows 98se , ATI 8mb video card , 15" LCD with 1600x1200 res and 8 cell battery ! last me 4hrs of video playback and i have modded mine to do be cool. it was dell 7500 and now i changed the harddrive , dvddrive and made low power efficent laptop :)

my 2nd laptop gets hot ! ASUS M6N

My 3rd laptop will be an ibook with intel chip ! when ever they come out :!
 
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JJ650

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I'm new to the laptop stuff and just wasn't sure. I just thought it would be cooler than what it is. Thanks for the info tho!!

I do have another question. It has a built in ORiNOCO miniPCI card for Wi-Fi access (It's a 802.11b). Could I just simply swap it out for one with 802.11a/b/g support or is there more to it than that?
 
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Old Hippie

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Could I just simply swap it out for one with 802.11a/b/g support or is there more to it than that?
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You'll want a different wireless manager (usually comes with the card), but other than that, you'll be good to go!
 
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