Are my temps too high for my laptop PC (HP Pavilion Dv7 Notebook)

bigmit37

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Jun 14, 2016
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Hi,

I've been having experiencing a lot of blue-screen crashes recently and my laptop is feeling hot around where the CPU area is presumably located. My 8 gigs of ram are being eaten up by firefox and chrome (about 60- 80 tabs open) and my PC has been slowing to a crawl recently

I ran Malwarebytes and nothing was found.

I ran a CPU temp test and this is what I have with just firefox/chrome, skype and MS paint ( to get the screenshot)


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These temps are night when it's cooler so I'm sure it's hotter in the afternoon.

I have one of those usb fan trays that are placed under the laptop and cool from the bottom. However, it's meant for a 15" tray while my laptop is a 17" machine. So not sure how much cooling it's getting done; better than nothing though.


This is a "gaming" laptop and I haven't ran a game yet. I'm afraid it will fully scorch the insides.


So are these temps okay?
Are there any tests I can run to see if my ram is working as intended?

Thanks.