New dell overheating?

[goldfish9228]

Ok first, my setup...
Windows7 64bit
Core i7@2.80ghz
Radeon HD5770
8gb ram

I just got this new desktop a few months ago. It's run fine with no hitches up until the past few days. I've been trying to play battlefield bad company 2, it runs beautifully for 20-30 minutes before it starts stuttering and dropping frames.

I've just about ruled out everything else, I'm thinking it might just be getting hot and throttling back.

So I downloaded core temp, and just sitting here now with only firefox open my temps as you can see in the picture below are pretty high. Everything I can find says the temps should be getting around that high under extreme load...not idling.

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3166/78904037.jpg

Help?

 

[o1die]

It's possible. But it's also possible core temp isn't accurate with your dell board and windows 7. If possible, try the "del" key when you restart the system quickly and see if your dell has any hardware monitor sections in the bios. See how close coretemp comes to the bios readings.

 

[goldfish9228]

Well delete doesn't do anything for me, I did F2 into setup and poked around in there and didn't see anything related to temperatures.

Any other way to monitor this stuff accurately?

 

[rolli59]

It should be under warranty, it is unacceptable that a new machine is having heat problems. Have patience dealing with Dell support.

 

[goldfish9228]

It's a dell studio XPS 8100

GPU is the original one that it came with, and yes the drivers are the latest ones

PSU is the original one, i'm not sure of the size

 

[Psychoteddy]

Yeah it's definitely overheating. TJMax is 99C and you're running low-mid 90s. Send it back.

 

[Psychoteddy]

but with what did you get the temps? Everest nor speedfan cant read them coz dell uses their own sensors

He used CoreTemp (see screenshot)

 

[goldfish9228]

No I couldn't find anything in the bios about temperature.

As for the fan thing, this thing is pretty loud..the fan is almost always cranking away pretty good

 

[goldfish9228]

Did we figure out for sure if the program is giving me accurate readings or not?