Speccy reporting 511 °C on GPU

[hawk007]

Windows was pre-installed from HP? If yes, there should be a recovery partition in your HDD. Don't format with any other too. Press F4 at the boot-time to launch the recovery program and follow the procedures to restore widows into factory condition.

 

If the above is not the case, you can freely format your HDD not fearing the Warranty Issue.

[Israeli_Eagle]

17 hours ago, VileTouch said:

what can i say? sorry for your loss...

we keep telling people: laptops are NOT for gaming!, they are NOT, period!, but they just ignore it and keep playing.

the thing is there is no way to design a laptop with a proper heat dissipation system and is also slim, light and pretty. these things are heavy and take space, need a certain volume of flowing air and moving that air also consumes energy. no way around it.

 

people can say "oh but technology one day..." but i assure you. there is really, really no way. to process that much data on a mobile device unless we completely change the way electronics work. that's why things like NVidia's Shield streaming exist.

 

may this serve as a lesson.

 

The main differences are:

 

Laptop/Notebook/Tablet ('mobile toys'):

- weak computing power, comparing normal CPU/GPU to 'M' types only half or even less
- weak cooling, when anything becomes hot then goes down to half clocks etc.
- bad power efficiency and weak batteries, only works max. some hours
- expensive, only minimal changes (RAM or HD), cannot repair often
+ mobile (of you live mostly in the streets)

 

PC:

+ sheer power!
+ when it needs more cooling then it simply cools more, never goes down but up when needing calculating power
+ 80% power efficiency is standard, extreme good power supplies up to 95%, works always 24/7!
+ much cheaper, everything can be changed whenever you want, easy to repair
- not mobile

 

The physical rules will not change in the next 100 years, you can decide what you use!

[Phantomboxe]

1 hour ago, hawk007 said:

Windows was pre-installed from HP? If yes, there should be a recovery partition in your HDD. Don't format with any other too. Press F4 at the boot-time to launch the recovery program and follow the procedures to restore widows into factory condition.

 

If the above is not the case, you can freely format your HDD not fearing the Warranty Issue.

yup, windows was pre-installed. i will try.

[davmil]

11 hours ago, vibranium said:

You should try to install the "outdated" HP AMD drivers. You need to understand that:

A) sometimes the laptop manufacturers (e.g. HP, Samsung. Lenovo) customize the drivers because they have made hardware modifications. The generic driver may be newer, but they are NOT GUARANTEED to work for branded laptops.

 

B) if you send your laptop for repairs, the HP repair guys may send it right back to you. A false reading may be interpreted as no fault at all, or they may say that you have installed the wrong drivers and say "customer fault". In the worst scenario, they will declare your warranty VOID.

 

Did you call HP support?  What do they think?  I'd get over this test and just drive down the road... it's obviously whacked.  Machines don't cool down running Photoshop.  And don't regret your HP decision - it's as good as any of the mid-range laptops which is to say, you'll probably be fine.  I've seen HPs last until you threw them away and I've seen IBM/Sony/Toshiba whatever video cards fail.  You live in a hot place (i lived in PI for 8 years) so keep that fan / cooling slot clear).