Acer Aspire One 725 high temperature

Fusha

Hello,

 

I just got my new Acer Aspire One 725, and it works great - however, when I checked what temperatures it's running at, I got quite worried.

 

The idle temprature is around ~60 Celsius, and under load it got to 87 Celsius before I turned it off.

 

I have tried disabling all the unnecessary applications, but that didn't help much. The netbook is brand new.

 

Ideas appreciated.

 

Thank you!

Vince53

Fusha, I got this from a review on Notebookcheck:

 

"However, under high processing load during our stress test, the 11.6-inch netbook became considerably warmer. We measured maximum temperatures of 39.3oC (102.7oF) and 43.6oC (110.5oF) for the top and underside of the base unit respectively. The wrist rest never exceeded 32.0oC (89.6oF). While our stress test represents an extreme case, it is nonetheless clear that the quiet cooling system has negative implications in terms of heat retention when the netbook is under high processing loads."

 

However, you're a lot hotter than that. Turn off your computer and fire a short blast of compressed air into the exit vent. When running, hold your fniger over the exit vent to make sure that the fan is actually working. If this doesn't solve your problem, a computer shop can put a new fan into your rig.

 

 

Vince53

Fusha, I got this from a review on Notebookcheck:

 

"However, under high processing load during our stress test, the 11.6-inch netbook became considerably warmer. We measured maximum temperatures of 39.3oC (102.7oF) and 43.6oC (110.5oF) for the top and underside of the base unit respectively. The wrist rest never exceeded 32.0oC (89.6oF). While our stress test represents an extreme case, it is nonetheless clear that the quiet cooling system has negative implications in terms of heat retention when the netbook is under high processing loads."

 

However, you're a lot hotter than that. Turn off your computer and fire a short blast of compressed air into the exit vent. When running, hold your fniger over the exit vent to make sure that the fan is actually working. If this doesn't solve your problem, a computer shop can put a new fan into your rig.

 

 

Fusha

Hi Vince,

 

Thank you very much for your help!

 

If that's the case, I should be fine - by "temperature" I meant the CPU cores templerature which I'm measuring using SpeedFan. The external case temperatures are nowhere close to those in the review. I'll stop worrying now.

 

Thanks again!

Vince53

Fusha, your core temperature is still far too high. I still advise you to shoot a blast of compressed air into your exit vent.

kermos

I have to second this heat issue. Having the chips inside cook at 80'C under load seems utterly wrong. These measurments are from just weeks after buying this thing.

 

Now after living with this issue for about half a year now, I got uneasy and went in to see what I could do. I opened it up, noticed it was using thermal padding instead of grease. Gave it a blob of my own grease, screwed it back down, and noticed there was this natural gap between the chips and the heatsink (eyeballing a ruler and the gap, I'd say around 0.5 mm).

So I devised a redneck-like idea created an aluminum-thermal grease sandwitch created out of cut, super-flattened lip things from soda cans (the thing that the tab pushes in). In the end, this seemed to cut off only 4-7'C Good, but not good enough.

This is a very, very large design mistake made by acer's engineers. If it didn't have that gap, I'd say it would cut off yet another 4-7'C.