Hello

My video card ( ATI Mobility Radeon HD5650 ) has been overheating a lot, to the point the computer turns off automatically.

I had my laptop ( inspiron N5010 ) completely cleaned up (no dust inside), reinstalled windows, and tried latest (beta and non-beta) drivers from AMD. I also updated the bios, but the problem persists.

(Measured with HWmonitor and cpu-z, and gpu-z) Average temperature on idle is 70°C. It takes less than a minute to go from 70 to 110°C when opening any 3D game/application. CPU temperature remains relatively low, about 60°C.

The ONLY way I've managed to keep temperature low is to set the video card to maximize battery life (when plugged in) so it runs at 300mhz both gpu and memories instead of the standard 450 and 800 mhz respectively, which is very annoying because I can really make use of the video card if it's underclocked all the time.

Is there any solution for this ?