I sit in bed watching TV with my rig but I cannot the M1730 on my lap or it burns my legs. I have to put a dinner tray upside down to both allow the vents underneath to have air flow and also to protect my legs when I'm wearing shorts in summer. On the upside it will keep my legs warm on a cold winter's night lol
Heat is the price we XPS M1730 owners pay, for the privilege of having such powerful hardware :emotion-55:
To give Dell due respect though, the cooling system in the M1730 is widely regarded as being one of the best ever... which is borne out - as you say, by the amount of heat being pumped out the back :emotion-3:
But the heat being exhausted is a good indication that the cooling system is performing well, and the temp's are undoubtedly well within accepted parameters.
But you can check them, by running software (as I do) such as Core Temp for the CPU (it displays temps and other info, in the small LCD screen :emotion-11:), GPU-Z for the graphics temp's, and HWMonitor for both CPU and graphics.
All of those are FREE!
There are also a number of free hard drive monitoring programs available too - i.e. HDD Thermometer, HDD Health, and HDDlife :emotion-5:
I’m also thinking of getting some sort of laptop stand with extra cooling on as well.
I was using a Zalman ZM-NC2000B laptop cooler for mine - and a very good cooler it is too.
^^ I've had to use an external link there, because the Zalman website's aren't loading for some reason? But you get the idea.
But I'm now using the Zalman for my 17" HP Pavilion laptop... and that's because I managed to source one of the simply astoundingNZXT Cryo LX - a product which I believe is still not available (to the general public at least), here in the UK!?
And of course... in keeping with the colour of my particular M1730... I got a black one :emotion-2:
I've never actually had heat issues with my laptop, but I'm never likely to, with this (wonderful) beast of thing under it :emotion-4:
There are far cheaper laptop coolers available of course!
But having spent in excess of £2,000 on one of the best gaming laptops the world has ever seen... I thought it only fitting that I should splash out on what is probably the finest laptop cooler the world has ever seen as well :emotion-21:
As a new M1730 owner (SLI) I was wondering if you ever purchased a cooler and if so what make/model, and are you happy with it?
I really do not want one that draws from a USB port. Our bricks may be 230 Watts, but with 2 GPU's, CPU, 2 HDD, Optical Drive, etc. I think the thing is stressed out enough. I supposed it's designed to run all 4 USB ports at 5v constantly, but I still dont like the idea.
Also a bit concerned about the models with fans on the face. I cant seem to find information on whether this type of cooler is a push or pull type. If the fans on the cooler are pullers then they would be fighting the bottom fans on the XPS dont you think? Conversly, if they are pushers do they spin fast enough to overdrive the bottom fans on the M1730?
Got my M1730 yesterday morning.. What a beast :D Only issues I've found so far involves the lightfx plugin/music playing skips...... and the HEAT.
I fully understand it is going to run hot and will require a certain amount of cooling. I use a laptop cooling base. I installed RivaTuner and was monitoring the temps of the CPU and GPU's.. (OO) Should the Nvidia's be running at 194F/90C ? Thats HOT... I'm just sitting idle on my desktop and the meters are in the red! Now I'm too worried to play my games. I have not attempted to change any settings as far as overclocking, fan speeds, etc.... At this point.. like I said.. I'm too worried to do anything until I hear something on this.
While gaming I switched over to take a look at the temps... The GPUs were running at 206F and the CPUs were 80F ... I was very worried at that point. I took a handheld ambient temperature laser monitor and pointed it at the back 'left' side of the laptop where it was really hot. The SURFACE temperature of the back of the laptop and the DVI port on the side was 128F !!!
sorry if its been answered...its early and have to get to work (on no sleep) but i actually called dell to complain about the heat problem with my M1530, like it gets hot! i usually have a small fan blowing on it ha. you can get little cool pads that fit under the laptop. and make sur eyou update your drivers. its the video card from what i was told that is causing the xps's to over heat.
i was told if a recall is made wed get a email if they decide to change parts.
it gets very very hot, and i have alrady had to get my mother board changed 2 times from over heating. call up dell and they have lots of suggestions.
i just plan on getting the alienware Area-51® m15x in the next year or so....but i love the computer but the heating is just too much..i mean it literally almost burns you...
Yeah, they are nice machines arent they :) :). From the magnesium chassis to the screen i am very happy i purchased one. I was in the market for something like this and could have purchased an Alienware if I had wanted to, but a similar config was 1K more than M1730, so why bother,
I have the same vid card setup as you but one thing I did was drop a second 320GB Seagate in the machine.
The XPS M1730 is well regarded for heat management (really). If you google or bing it you can find reviews on it. That being said, yeah, it blows some darn hot air out the back, but look online for a dissambled one to see the cooling fins and heat pipes inside.
I use a cooler from Newegg. I think it is a Rosewill which is a housebrand. 2 120mm fans iirc (blowers) that are near the rear 1/3 of the cooler. I helps a great deal.
Do you have the "Dell reccomended" power settings enabled? I changed them once to full throttle all the time and yeah, it got pretty darn hot, but sitting there idling the fans rarely spin up to high, almost never.
I was way off on the stock fan size, it is not 120mm, but 70mm. My apologies.
You wont see me knocking Alienware, but I'll just say two things...the M1730 was bargain compared to the Alienware I configured, and secondly I have read some issues on heat. I have no direct experience with them, so thats just stuff I've read, but the articles I read stated they have a tendancy to lock up they get so hot. Now maybe my M1730 would overheat as well if I pushed it too hard, who knows.
The power settings should be in the lower right corner of your taskbar. just mouse over it...it should say "Dell Reccomended" or similar.
If you are not experienced, dont mess around with your M1730 drivers, especially video. That goes DOUBLE if you really think the laptop has an overheating problem. Keep everything stock for now in case you have to call support or send it back because the first thing they will tell you is to restore it to factory settings.
spotts
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January 20th, 2009 02:00
I sit in bed watching TV with my rig but I cannot the M1730 on my lap or it burns my legs. I have to put a dinner tray upside down to both allow the vents underneath to have air flow and also to protect my legs when I'm wearing shorts in summer. On the upside it will keep my legs warm on a cold winter's night lol
TheRealFireblad
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January 20th, 2009 11:00
Heat is the price we XPS M1730 owners pay, for the privilege of having such powerful hardware :emotion-55:
To give Dell due respect though, the cooling system in the M1730 is widely regarded as being one of the best ever... which is borne out - as you say, by the amount of heat being pumped out the back :emotion-3:
But the heat being exhausted is a good indication that the cooling system is performing well, and the temp's are undoubtedly well within accepted parameters.
But you can check them, by running software (as I do) such as Core Temp for the CPU (it displays temps and other info, in the small LCD screen :emotion-11:), GPU-Z for the graphics temp's, and HWMonitor for both CPU and graphics.
All of those are FREE!
There are also a number of free hard drive monitoring programs available too - i.e. HDD Thermometer, HDD Health, and HDDlife :emotion-5:
I was using a Zalman ZM-NC2000B laptop cooler for mine - and a very good cooler it is too.
^^ I've had to use an external link there, because the Zalman website's aren't loading for some reason? But you get the idea.
But I'm now using the Zalman for my 17" HP Pavilion laptop... and that's because I managed to source one of the simply astounding NZXT Cryo LX - a product which I believe is still not available (to the general public at least), here in the UK!?
And of course... in keeping with the colour of my particular M1730... I got a black one :emotion-2:
I've never actually had heat issues with my laptop, but I'm never likely to, with this (wonderful) beast of thing under it :emotion-4:
There are far cheaper laptop coolers available of course!
But having spent in excess of £2,000 on one of the best gaming laptops the world has ever seen... I thought it only fitting that I should splash out on what is probably the finest laptop cooler the world has ever seen as well :emotion-21:
peterdollery
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April 22nd, 2009 23:00
As a new M1730 owner (SLI) I was wondering if you ever purchased a cooler and if so what make/model, and are you happy with it?
I really do not want one that draws from a USB port. Our bricks may be 230 Watts, but with 2 GPU's, CPU, 2 HDD, Optical Drive, etc. I think the thing is stressed out enough. I supposed it's designed to run all 4 USB ports at 5v constantly, but I still dont like the idea.
Also a bit concerned about the models with fans on the face. I cant seem to find information on whether this type of cooler is a push or pull type. If the fans on the cooler are pullers then they would be fighting the bottom fans on the XPS dont you think? Conversly, if they are pushers do they spin fast enough to overdrive the bottom fans on the M1730?
Cheers
hodtek
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June 14th, 2009 21:00
[[Intel Core 2 (Duo) -T9500 2.60 GHz]] [[8 GB RAM]] [[Nvidia Geforce Dual 9800M GT (SLI)]] [[500 GB Hard-drive (7200)]]
Got my M1730 yesterday morning.. What a beast :D Only issues I've found so far involves the lightfx plugin/music playing skips...... and the HEAT.
I fully understand it is going to run hot and will require a certain amount of cooling. I use a laptop cooling base. I installed RivaTuner and was monitoring the temps of the CPU and GPU's.. (OO) Should the Nvidia's be running at 194F/90C ? Thats HOT... I'm just sitting idle on my desktop and the meters are in the red! Now I'm too worried to play my games. I have not attempted to change any settings as far as overclocking, fan speeds, etc.... At this point.. like I said.. I'm too worried to do anything until I hear something on this.
While gaming I switched over to take a look at the temps... The GPUs were running at 206F and the CPUs were 80F ... I was very worried at that point. I took a handheld ambient temperature laser monitor and pointed it at the back 'left' side of the laptop where it was really hot. The SURFACE temperature of the back of the laptop and the DVI port on the side was 128F !!!
Open to advice and suggestions.
rizlas
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June 15th, 2009 03:00
sorry if its been answered...its early and have to get to work (on no sleep) but i actually called dell to complain about the heat problem with my M1530, like it gets hot! i usually have a small fan blowing on it ha. you can get little cool pads that fit under the laptop. and make sur eyou update your drivers. its the video card from what i was told that is causing the xps's to over heat.
i was told if a recall is made wed get a email if they decide to change parts.
it gets very very hot, and i have alrady had to get my mother board changed 2 times from over heating. call up dell and they have lots of suggestions.
i just plan on getting the alienware Area-51® m15x in the next year or so....but i love the computer but the heating is just too much..i mean it literally almost burns you...
peterdollery
48 Posts
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June 15th, 2009 12:00
Yeah, they are nice machines arent they :) :). From the magnesium chassis to the screen i am very happy i purchased one. I was in the market for something like this and could have purchased an Alienware if I had wanted to, but a similar config was 1K more than M1730, so why bother,
I have the same vid card setup as you but one thing I did was drop a second 320GB Seagate in the machine.
The XPS M1730 is well regarded for heat management (really). If you google or bing it you can find reviews on it. That being said, yeah, it blows some darn hot air out the back, but look online for a dissambled one to see the cooling fins and heat pipes inside.
I use a cooler from Newegg. I think it is a Rosewill which is a housebrand. 2 120mm fans iirc (blowers) that are near the rear 1/3 of the cooler. I helps a great deal.
Do you have the "Dell reccomended" power settings enabled? I changed them once to full throttle all the time and yeah, it got pretty darn hot, but sitting there idling the fans rarely spin up to high, almost never.
Cheers
rizlas
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June 16th, 2009 21:00
im not totally sure what my power setting is...???
how big are the coolers? and are those the same as the cooling pads i heard about?
Ive just heard great reviews on the alienware laptops, but wont be buying one for atleast a year or more.
what are some settings i can use to help cool it off....I was told updating your drivers help.
peterdollery
48 Posts
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June 16th, 2009 23:00
The link here is to the cooler i purchased http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834998921
I was way off on the stock fan size, it is not 120mm, but 70mm. My apologies.
You wont see me knocking Alienware, but I'll just say two things...the M1730 was bargain compared to the Alienware I configured, and secondly I have read some issues on heat. I have no direct experience with them, so thats just stuff I've read, but the articles I read stated they have a tendancy to lock up they get so hot. Now maybe my M1730 would overheat as well if I pushed it too hard, who knows.
The power settings should be in the lower right corner of your taskbar. just mouse over it...it should say "Dell Reccomended" or similar.
If you are not experienced, dont mess around with your M1730 drivers, especially video. That goes DOUBLE if you really think the laptop has an overheating problem. Keep everything stock for now in case you have to call support or send it back because the first thing they will tell you is to restore it to factory settings.
Cheers