Before asking "Is this too hot?"

After reading those guides I come to the conclusion that it might be the airflow to be honest. The cooler (at least the CPU one) was cleaned before I reapplied it (~ a month ago) and thermal paste didn't overpass or overflow, so I think it's just the cooler not having enough power to handle the CPU's heat. As for the GPU I noticed that this cooler hasn't got the traditional 2-cable plug that connects to the card, but rather a 3-cable that connects to the MB, and that the fan is at relatively low rotation (it's a LED one, and I should see some light under normal condictions, but the light is very dim. I am a bit stressed at this since my MB (Asrock 775VM800) 's connectors are only for CPU and "Chassis", which as far as I know is controlled by the Ambient sensor and not the GPU sensor. Hence the temperatures of the GPU reaching to 80ºC.

And, installing an exhaust fan and an intake fan did nothing but getting it worse. The disks are now running at 48ºC.

The fans are intake at the front and exhaust in the back, like they did on ATX gaming cases back in the days. But I had my fans connected to the 5V cable rather than the 12V and thus underrotating. Now my harddrives are running 38ºC topse but the rest of the temps remain where they were and the GPU already did hit 96ºC

CPU: Between 33ºC and 62ºC (that was told to be normal)
GPU: Between 54ºC and 96ºC (this is worryingful)
Ambience: Between 27ºC and 52ºC (a warm spot might've created there in the middle of the board)
Ambience 2: Between 28ºC and 57ºC (this is a sensor on the back of the GPU evidentiating what I feel about the GPU. That's Ambience directly above the GPU.)
HDD0 (main): Between 22ºC and 35ºC (resumed normal operation):
HDD1 (secondary): Between 22ºC and 39ºC (outside in a USB case. It's scorching-hot Summer in here so it's understandable).


What do you think?

I have Dell XPS L502x bought 5 months ago. It have lots of heating components like Intel core i7, 8GB RAM, nVidia GT 540M, 5W JBL Speakers, etc.
My CPU Temp always stays above 65 celcius in idle, and goes upto 73 celcius in MSE virus scan, upto 88 celcius with Assassins Creed III.
My Keyboard feels hot within few minutes of assassins creed gaming.
I have provided some space under my laptop about 3cms by placing bottle caps under my lap.
but the temp is unchanged. Please help me with this.

Hi, you can get a whats it called, basically its a pad you put under your laptop with fans on it to cool your laptap. Heck even pointing a household fan at it on high would probably cool it down nicely.

p.s. post in the forum and make a topic for more help but I do not think there is much else that can be done, also I believe laptops are designed to run hotter, but I am not sure about that!