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Originally Posted by Arctures

But seriously I need your help guys. My laptop processors are idling at 65 degrees celcius, or about 150 fahrenheit, with an external laptop fan, which according to my research is very high. I've heard conflicting arguments over whether or not this is merely dust build-up, but it seems to me that heat simply isn't dissipating as much as it should. Any advice on how to keep it running cooler?

Make damned sure that Processor Frequency Scaling is enabled and active. I have my thinkpad permaset to 50% performance unless I tick the "High Performance" option in Vista's popup Power control panel. This allows my CPU to run at a much more Heat Friendly 1ghz as opposed to the 2ghz it likes to rock out at. Do the same for your video chip in the advanced options for windows Vista.

If you're an idiot and still running XP, set the computer type to "Laptop/Portable" in the power options. If its already set that way, change it to Desktop, Reboot the machine, and set it back to Laptop. You cant manually set percentages on XP without a special tool. As for your graphics frequency scaling settings, Your video card manufacturer would have to provide you with those, NVidia and ATI provide them in their latest drivers for all the chipsets I can find and Intel's do it automagically.

You also have an AMD64 in your laptop. AMD processors are not known for power efficiency or for not outputting heat. While my Desktop is running 50C right now that's because its a Core2 with a crappy heat sink, My thinkpad has a nearly identical Core2 Processor and idles at 40C. All else fails, dust the fucker out, change your thermal paste and hope for the best. Sometimes there's nothing you can do.