![]() SIW is supposed to be able to show fan speed, but my version isn’t reporting it. The SSD temperature is labeled “air flow” and went up 1 degree. If I can trust these temperatures as being relevant and accurate, the I don’t think the difference between one monitor or two is enough to be too concerned about. A more significant increase that the i7’s, but temp’s are much lower than the i7’s. The ATI Firepro graphics temperature went up from 56C to 64C. With 2 monitors the i7 temperatures which were near 85-90C and went up just a little, a few degrees if at all. I have the SIW system utility, and I just used it to check on temperatures with one monitor, and again with two monitors. Please let me know if you don’t think that’s a fair assessment. So I’m inclined to think that the power draw of the monitors doesn’t affect the laptop. They each run off their own power brick, and one is connected to the docking station with a VGA cable, and one with a DVI cable. My computer has 8 GB of ram and a Samsung SSD. ![]() That can lower the operating temperature noticeably. Then apply the good thermal compound, reseat the heatsink, and put the laptop back together. Take your laptop apart, blow the dust out, unseat the heatsink from the CPU, and clean the surface of the CPU and the heatsink with the alcohol and a q-tip. Don’t try this unless you are sure you know what you are doing (it is very easy to cause damage if you don’t) but if you know what you are doing, you might get some high-grade thermal compound such as Arctic Silver, some high-quality rubbing alcohol, some q-tips, and a can of compressed air. One thing I have come to believe: Computer manufacturers sometimes use cheap thermal compound when attaching the heatsink to the CPU. In addition to the program Sudo recommended, you could also try a program called Speedfan, to see what the temperatures are. Perhaps more heat comes out of the vent when you run the external monitors unless that heat is extremely hot, I wouldn’t think there is an overheating problem. ![]() If the vents on the side of your laptop are hot, but nothing else is very hot, then I’d say that your laptop is not overheating. A Precision will use more power (and therefore generate more heat) than a Latitude, though. I run two external monitors on my Dell Latitude laptop, and there doesn’t appear to be an overheating issue. What monitors are you running? Perhaps one or both of them have a problem and are drawing a lot of power as a result.Īlso, perhaps there is a problem with your laptop’s or docking station’s video circuitry. ![]()
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