My average laptop temperature is 75C. Is it Normal?

I'm using Samsung 5 Series NP535U4X-S01ID with specification of AMD Quad-Core A8-4555M processor and AMD Radeon HD 7600G + HD 7550M Dual Graphics.

I've just installed Ubuntu 12.10 and I use the AMD nee ATI: Thames [Radeon 7500M/7600M Series] driver which is recommended by the ubuntu software sources.

But after I update to this AMD "recommended" driver, my average laptop temperature rise up to 75C. Is this normal? Or what should I do to reduce the average temperature?

(The fan sounds loud right now.)

Solution 1:

You need to turn off your Radeon GPU in order to resolve your problem with temperature and fan sound! I used that method on 12.04, 12.10 and is working perfectly.

Check THIS question also.

More informations about Hybrid Graphics here

Solution 2:

Anything between 45-65 ° Celcius is fine if you working on regular applications and the number of application you are running is not abnormally high. However, even in such circumstances, the temperature may rise beyond this range due to dust or other underlying softwares or some other reasons I am not aware of.

If your system heats up regularly, try cleaning up your vents, near the fans which block air by either blowing air through it or using soft brushes.

Some applications like Jupiter help control temperature by adjusting system performance accordingly. See instructions for installing Jupiter here.

Solution 3:

My laptop has 50-60 degrees of Celsius (older Asus eeePc with Atom CPU). Nowadays I'm using Intel Core i5 CPU on HP ProBook notebook and the temperature doesn't reach over 40 degrees. Sometimes the graphic chipset can make the temperature higher.

In case that you are using Linux try to monitor the mostly used processes with high system resources usage.

Solution 4:

I use ubuntu on a laptop too (a crappy one). 75 C is just fine, as long as it doesn't get over 90 (it will shut down your system, and thus making it an unreliable system). If you cant keep it at this temperature, you should try to look for what actually overheats it(in my case the cpu sometimes went up to 100C), then search for a fixing programm that lets you controll the speed of the overheating piece of hardware :)!

Cheers, Max