Alienware X51 CPU High temperature

@chriss I cant remember the exact temps, but I remembered it wasnt as high as 84. The most was 79 or 80. That was after heavy game play. This temps I recorded was just after 30 over minutes game play. Is this normal?

michaelbyz23,

What were your temps before loading A10?

after running cinebench

After running the 3d mark vantage benchmark test on CPU, the temperature reaches a whopping 85, my room is 16Celcius, its winter outside.. Gosh..

Please hlep me Chris. Can send a technician over to fix the thermal paste or heatsink? Why isit so hot?

Hello michaelbyz23,

I see that you ran different stress tests to verify the CPU temperatures, if possible follow the steps from this article to check for proper airflow, try use Prime95 to stress the CPU and Heaven Benchmark to stress the GPU.

@karen,

I did what you told me, I used Prime95 to stress CPU and I have the same results. I stressed it for 8 minutes only. :( Is this even normal to reach 88 celcius when my room is just 16celcius? The motherboard is 87celcius at one point (TMPIN0)

Please help me out Dell.

alright, I have already sent the message, I hope we could work this out.

hello michaelbyz23,

Send me a PM, include your service tag, phone number the link for this thread, I'll check for possible options.

my new peak temperature after prime 95 cpu stress for 10 minutes, after the heatsink was replaced by dell technician.

my new peak temperature after prime 95 cpu stress for 10 minutes, after the heatsink was replaced by dell technician.

Doesn't look right. Are you OC or is the cooler just really lame  Try having it done again.

Your idle (Min.) is my max.

your max is almost TJmax.

Edit: Looks like it was better before. Are you sure it's installed on there right (now)?

yes you are right, this is 3-4C worse than the original heat sink. Dell Karen has already sent me a message to help me sort out this problem. Thanks alot. I really hope I could lower down the temperature to the normal ones. Idling at 55-60 and maxed out around 80-85 is normal. But maxing out at 96C is just not right.

Nope I did not overclock the processor.

After I applied the arctic silver 5 thermal paste, this is the new temperature.

Hello all,

I have the same problem with X51 CPU high temperatures (A10) and I beggan to get worried about it so I found this topic.

The only way I found to correct this was to add 2 fans at the pc's back  with an ac adaptator. (sorry for the too little bad picture)

This is clearly not a beautiful solution and that makes more noise but now the temperatures are around 10°C less than before so I think this is acceptable.

I also bought 2 Aluminum RAM Heatsink for 12€ (I'm actually waiting for the delivery) and took off the DVD player/bracket to make some place to add a 960GbSSD.

I hope that will help a little, bybye. [;)]

Hi, i have X51 and the cpu temp. sometimes reaches around 87 degree Celsius while playing high end games like Battlefield 4, but it idles around 56 degree Celsius.

Its 1 year old so i am planning on replacing thermal paste, and using Noctura Nt-H1.

So i want to ask will this reduce cpu temps? or if u have any other suggestions then please help me. Im afraid that my cpu is going to fry.

Thanks in advance.