Hey Monk, I see your point in regard to my suggestion, and agree that for gaming on a laptop it is fairly cool. When I'm gaming on my laptop the temps do get higher than those posted, but the fan does increase in speed when the temperature gets to around 60*c, hence my inquiry as to whether the OP had cpu throttling enabled in preference to the use of active cooling (running the fan at higher speeds), as it is around this temperature range the problems are occuring.
@NoN: obviously a very good point. I too often assume folks have a backup ready to go in case (of anything at any time). Then again, you read the forums and find out they don't. Thanks. Also, your link to FileDen, for whatever reason goes to the homepage. Try this one which will open a DL window straight on.
@Fseal: 28 - now that's much cooler than I would have expected. Several years back I used to have a Toshiba lappy that idled in the high 40s; under a load it was in the high 60s. It never seemed to cause problems so I ignored it.
@205tim/Gorgio17: I can only guess about being clock throttled. Here is a great article dealing with throttle stop issues with the Dell Studio XPS but may apply universally.
@Georgio17: One more thing. Depending on how long you have had your machine, if you feel comfortable doing so, open that lappy and get rid of the dust, which is especially prone to pack in the CPU heat sink. I don't fool with cans of compressed whatever (quit that because some of them wreak havoc on camera mirrors). What I do is take my shopvac and attach the hose to the exhaust port and let 'er rip. I do that with my tower also. Some folks worry about doing this because it will spin the fans rather briskly. OK, back off a bit. But do check out the heat sinks for evidence of dust clogging.
Monk
THe i3 and i5 cpus with the infinately variable speedstep run surprisingly cool. (i7's were not really made for laptops and some run pretty hot) My GPU hits close to 70C though.
I just looked it up, the i3 desktop processor (which most laptops have) has a max case temp of 72C. But I don't know what temp it starts throttling at. It could easily throttle to maintain a "safe" temp of 60 C or so.
So OP can either find a program like speed fan or something to pump up the fans, or stop the throttling but in the latter case I'd wach the temps VERY carefully.
A lot of laptops have simply lousy cooling engineering and gaming on them without watching temps will simply burn them out within a few months.
Your assembly and Air Flow temps are very high for an idling PC specially when they are higher than your CPU core temps. Try running HWmonitor during gameplay and post your temps after slowdown.
Could anyone please tell me how to increase the fan speed of graphic card/cpu
Here is a thread from Dell forums on increasing fan speeds as well as other thoughts on cooling in the XPS Studio. Will it apply to the Studio . . . ? I did not read through all of the posts but speed options may be changed via the BIOS or, as is mentioned in the thread, via the Catalyst control Center (ATi Overdrive)
Monk
Overdrive is not avaliable on my catalyst control center i tried to donload manually but it did not work either.
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