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impactX · 08-22-2009, 07:25 PM

Download a software called Dell Inspiron/Latitude/Precision fan control V3.1.

It's a tool to monitor the temperature and manually control the fan speed. Your GPU and CPU may very well be overheating after 10 minutes of WoW.

When you say you got the GPU fixed, did they replace the thermopaste for the GPU and CPU or did they just replace the motherboard? Once I got my mobo replaced and the guy used the same heatsink and fan and same thermopaste, needless to say, the laptop was overheating even when idling when the thermopaste couldn't make a proper contact with the GPU and CPU (idling around 70 degrees Celsius or 65-67 with high fan speed). I had to ask them to come again to replace the mobo with new HSF and thermopaste. (now idling at only 45 degrees Celsius with high fan speed) I got a M1210, the predecessor of your 1330, that's kinda what happens when they pack so much heat in a little computer.

Go download that program, check the temperature, and see if you want to have a Dell tech to replace everything for you again... having the GPU and CPU go thru this huge range of heat cycles made my M1210 crap out in 2 years.

08-22-2009, 07:25 PM	#10
impactX The "You'd Know" Moderator Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Home Posts: 20,931 Thanked 276 Times in 140 Posts Failed 11 Times in 9 Posts	Download a software called Dell Inspiron/Latitude/Precision fan control V3.1. It's a tool to monitor the temperature and manually control the fan speed. Your GPU and CPU may very well be overheating after 10 minutes of WoW. When you say you got the GPU fixed, did they replace the thermopaste for the GPU and CPU or did they just replace the motherboard? Once I got my mobo replaced and the guy used the same heatsink and fan and same thermopaste, needless to say, the laptop was overheating even when idling when the thermopaste couldn't make a proper contact with the GPU and CPU (idling around 70 degrees Celsius or 65-67 with high fan speed). I had to ask them to come again to replace the mobo with new HSF and thermopaste. (now idling at only 45 degrees Celsius with high fan speed) I got a M1210, the predecessor of your 1330, that's kinda what happens when they pack so much heat in a little computer. Go download that program, check the temperature, and see if you want to have a Dell tech to replace everything for you again... having the GPU and CPU go thru this huge range of heat cycles made my M1210 crap out in 2 years. __________________ 08 CBR600RR 03 IS300 Ezekiel 25:17. The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of the darkness. For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know I am the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon you.