I think my Celeron is too hot...

[t3h l337 n3wb]

I have an HP Pavilion laptop (piece of crap, my mom bought it ) with a 2.8 Northwood Celeron. I'm running MobileMeter, and its recording these pretty high temps. There's an intake and exaust fan, and I guess the stock HSF for the CPU too. Is this normal for a laptop? TIA.

 

[Jeff7181]

It's not abnormal. Does it get hot enough that it could harm a surface it's setting on? Does it get so hot that it throttles to keep from burning up? Is dust blocking airflow? If not, I wouldn't worry about it. HP didn't get where they are by creating computers that burn themselves up under normal conditions.

 

[t3h l337 n3wb]

Well, I was at a LAN party once and I brought this POS laptop. After about 6 hours of continuous play, my keyboard started becoming really really warm...

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: t3h l337 n3wb
Well, I was at a LAN party once and I brought this POS laptop. After about 6 hours of continuous play, my keyboard started becoming really really warm...

That's good... your fingers won't cramp up while at the LAN party. Mine gets warm too... too hot to keep in my lap... and it's a 366 MHz Pentium 2... still runs though so I'm not worried about it.

 

[The Green Bean]

never heard of a 2.8GHZ northwood celeron