Check the fan and heatsink for proper seating, also check the flow of air into your case. Try removing the side cover and see if your CPU temp goes down, that means poor airflow inside. For monotoring CPU temp, Motherboard Monitor is the best followed by Speed Fan and Hardware Monitor.

how do I get the speedfan monitor and such?

I blew out the fan some what... I blew from the suck side first... man tons of dust came out.. but... if I didnt screw anything up .. the temp has dropped to 60C at idle...

I need to open this thing up and clean it.. heh maybe even whip out the dremel and make some new holes in the case and or retrofit a bigger fan!


(maybe even... paint the case if I can get all the plastic apart)





I'm down to 56C!!!!!!!


I should go to wal mart and use my money(gift card) that I got back from the stupid cooling pad and get some canned air and some small screw drivers!


a 10 degrees Celsius drop just by blowing into the fan... not bad!

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=311 For Motherboard Monitor and then grab the update at http://www.thetechrepository.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=324&d=1165883075

Speedfan at http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php

Hardware Monitor at http://www.cpuid.com/hwmonitor.php

got speedfan.. but... It says 73C where as the mobmeter is saying 56C

wha?

Speedfan reads the core whereas MBM reads the die temp so both are fine. Die temp shouldn't exceed 60C under load.

Die is which? according to speed fan its 73..

Core is the innards and die is the outer shell of CPU, inner shell temp is critical and under no conditions should it exceed 75C.

New question.

Temps are fine but the game is laggy as hell. I am using cable/dsl.. w/e it is over a wifi network with only my laptop using the signal. In game play is considerably laggy when compared to playing on a desktop with an ethrenet cable. Transfer speed is 54 Mbps ... whereas now hooked up via ethrenet its 100mbps transfer rate directly from the cable router. The stupid wireless router is rated at 108Mbps

I also want to attribute said lag to my amount of RAM.. the game requires 512 minimum and I have.. 448(which is weird).. I need more RAM.. IIRC the controller on this laptop can handle 1 gig or two.. never looked into it


I tried connecting my laptop to the ethrenet directly and it didnt connect... or maybe I did not make adjustments for it

I think you're seeing what happens when you try to play a modern game on an old laptop...although WoW isn't that bad. Memory will help a lot...I upgraded from 512 to 1024MB and it made a big difference.

The difference between your desktop and laptop is most likely not related to the router, but to the computer hardware.

But, if your cpu can't handle it (onboard graphics means the CPU does everything, essentially), it's gonna lag. I only do basic things on my laptop (email, etc). If you want a solid computer that will last and you can fix yourself, build a desktop.

Its only 4 years old. Plus when I plugged it up to the cable router directly it ran without any lag.. even when in graphic intensive areas

The so-called laptop coolers really don't do anything to cool the CPU or GPU. I've learned that fact w/ my laptop. Would have thought that it would . .

I'm using this freeware and it really works: keeps the CPU around 45C with or without the laptop cooler!

You can customize it for your tastes including fan speeds and cutin points.
http://www.diefer.de/i8kfan/index.html

That is for a Dell, correct? I have a Sony Vaio

It lags on wireless, as there is less thoroughput on wireless than there is when it is wired...


Basically, more bandwidth when your wired....

You should also look into which ports you need to have forwarded...

You're not gonna saturate a DSL/cable connection over wireless.

Lets say you have a 10mbps internet connection. If you connect a 100mbps router to it, it'll show up as a 100mbps connection (as that's how fast the router'll talk to your computer). Irregardless of whether you have a 100 megabit or 1 gigabit wired router, you still have a 10 meg connection to the internet.

Unless you have a very expensive cable connection, you won't saturate the 802.11 speeds. I've never, never had a problem using high speed wireless connections.

Either you forgot to set up encryption and somebody is stealing your internet connection bandwidth, or you've got a software/hardware problem. There is nothing inherently flawed with wireless networks.