I have a CQ57 339wm which originally had a Celeron b800 CPU, but I recently upgraded to a i3 2328m CPU. I upgraded it because despite having higher clock, it also had the better HD 3000. (The celeron had HD 2000). I've been playing a game for about 10 minutes and the CPU temps are already up there. I am worried about these temperatures, but specifically the package temp. The cores can be at around 64-66, but the package temps will be at 72-74c. For some reason HWMonitor reports that it is a 2330M. Here is the txt from HWMonitor. I didn't copy the Thread Dumps because it would make this too long.
CPUID HWMonitor Report
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Binaries
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HWMonitor version 1.2.8.0
Monitoring
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Mainboard Model 3672 (0x000000D2 - 0x000022B0)
LPCIO
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Hardware Monitors
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Hardware monitor ACPI
Temperature 0 73°C (163°F) [0xD86] (TSZ0)
Hardware monitor Battery
Voltage 0 12.57 Volts [0x311D] (Current Voltage)
Capacity 0 43070 mWh [0xA83E] (Designed Capacity)
Capacity 1 43070 mWh [0xA83E] (Full Charge Capacity)
Capacity 2 42638 mWh [0xA68E] (Current Capacity)
Level 0 n.a. [0x64] (Wear Level)
Level 1 99 pc [0x62] (Charge Level)
Hardware monitor Intel I/O
Clock Speed 0 1097.38 MHz [0x449] (Graphics)
Processors
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Number of processors 1
Number of threads 4
APICs
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Processor 0
-- Core 0
-- Thread 0 0
-- Thread 1 1
-- Core 1
-- Thread 0 2
-- Thread 1 3
Timers
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ACPI timer 3.580 MHz
HPET timer 14.318 MHz
Perf timer 2.144 MHz
Sys timer 1.000 KHz
Processors Information
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Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 2 (max 8)
Number of threads 4 (max 16)
Name Intel Core i3 2330M
Codename Sandy Bridge
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2328M CPU @ 2.20GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 988B rPGA (0x4)
CPUID 6.A.7
Extended CPUID 6.2A
Core Stepping D2
Technology 32 nm
TDP Limit 35.0 Watts
Tjmax 85.0 °C
Core Speed 2194.8 MHz
Multiplier x Bus Speed 22.0 x 99.8 MHz
Stock frequency 2200 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, VT-x, AVX
L1 Data cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 2 x 256 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L3 cache 3 MBytes, 12-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
Turbo Mode not supported
Max non-turbo ratio 22x
Max turbo ratio 22x
Max efficiency ratio 8x
Max Power 44 Watts
Min Power 24 Watts
O/C bins none
Ratio 1 core 22x
Ratio 2 cores 22x
Ratio 3 cores 22x
Ratio 4 cores 22x
TSC 2195.3 MHz
APERF 2195.3 MHz
MPERF 2195.3 MHz
Temperature 0 66°C (150°F) [0x13] (Core #0)
Temperature 1 73°C (163°F) [0xC] (Package)
Power 0 29.25 W (Package)
Power 1 15.32 W (IA Cores)
Power 2 9.92 W (GT)
Power 3 4.01 W (Uncore)
Voltage 0 1.20 Volts (VID)
CPUID HWMonitor Report
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Binaries
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HWMonitor version 1.2.8.0
Monitoring
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Mainboard Model 3672 (0x000000D2 - 0x000022B0)
LPCIO
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Hardware Monitors
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Hardware monitor ACPI
Temperature 0 73°C (163°F) [0xD86] (TSZ0)
Hardware monitor Battery
Voltage 0 12.57 Volts [0x311D] (Current Voltage)
Capacity 0 43070 mWh [0xA83E] (Designed Capacity)
Capacity 1 43070 mWh [0xA83E] (Full Charge Capacity)
Capacity 2 42638 mWh [0xA68E] (Current Capacity)
Level 0 n.a. [0x64] (Wear Level)
Level 1 99 pc [0x62] (Charge Level)
Hardware monitor Intel I/O
Clock Speed 0 1097.38 MHz [0x449] (Graphics)
Processors
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Number of processors 1
Number of threads 4
APICs
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Processor 0
-- Core 0
-- Thread 0 0
-- Thread 1 1
-- Core 1
-- Thread 0 2
-- Thread 1 3
Timers
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ACPI timer 3.580 MHz
HPET timer 14.318 MHz
Perf timer 2.144 MHz
Sys timer 1.000 KHz
Processors Information
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Processor 1 ID = 0
Number of cores 2 (max 8)
Number of threads 4 (max 16)
Name Intel Core i3 2330M
Codename Sandy Bridge
Specification Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-2328M CPU @ 2.20GHz
Package (platform ID) Socket 988B rPGA (0x4)
CPUID 6.A.7
Extended CPUID 6.2A
Core Stepping D2
Technology 32 nm
TDP Limit 35.0 Watts
Tjmax 85.0 °C
Core Speed 2194.8 MHz
Multiplier x Bus Speed 22.0 x 99.8 MHz
Stock frequency 2200 MHz
Instructions sets MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, EM64T, VT-x, AVX
L1 Data cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 2 x 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 2 x 256 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L3 cache 3 MBytes, 12-way set associative, 64-byte line size
FID/VID Control yes
Turbo Mode not supported
Max non-turbo ratio 22x
Max turbo ratio 22x
Max efficiency ratio 8x
Max Power 44 Watts
Min Power 24 Watts
O/C bins none
Ratio 1 core 22x
Ratio 2 cores 22x
Ratio 3 cores 22x
Ratio 4 cores 22x
TSC 2195.3 MHz
APERF 2195.3 MHz
MPERF 2195.3 MHz
Temperature 0 66°C (150°F) [0x13] (Core #0)
Temperature 1 73°C (163°F) [0xC] (Package)
Power 0 29.25 W (Package)
Power 1 15.32 W (IA Cores)
Power 2 9.92 W (GT)
Power 3 4.01 W (Uncore)
Voltage 0 1.20 Volts (VID)