Hi,

Recently i bought a new dell laptop, it is a dell inspiron 15r n5110 model, ( i do not know why it has such a long name). My previous laptop was a dell inspiron 1525 and i was very pleased about it so i decided to get another dell laptop. This new one has an i3 sandy bridge processor at 2.3 Gz, 4 Gb DDR 3 and a nVidia 525m with 1 Gb graphic card. All things fine until here.

The problem is that after 2 MONTHS i bought the laptop its motherboard adapter broke, the laptop just didn't want to start when pressing the power button. In service they told me that motherboard adapter burnt and was replaced. Ok, now the laptop is back and i monitor the heat of motherboard with "Speccy" program which indicates only with Firefox open (i am on windows 7 ultimate) an average 48 Celsius degrees which for me SEEMS a lot, after i start a pc game Civilization 5 (recommended system requirements processor: 1.8 GHz Quad Core CPU memory: 4 GB RAM Video: 512 MB ATI 4800 series or better, 512 MB nVidia 9800 series or better) and play a little bit 30 - 40 minutes then the heat rises to 71 Celsius degrees thing that worries me, i was playing this game also before the motherboard to be burnt, could this be the reason for first laptop's ISSUE the fact that i was playing this game ?

Which should be the average temperature of motherboard ? And which is the maximum that can handle in terms of long running time for this laptop (the previous dell laptop when was over heating was just restarting but this one.... seems to be a piece of crap) ? I am afraid that in these circumstances 48 C as average and 71 C sometimes will burn the motherboard again after a while, i am right ?

Why this laptop got this good specifications regarding processor, graphic card, dynamic memory since its motherboard cannot handle them on their normal usage ? ( i am so disappointed about this, but may be i am wrong )

Should i stop playing this game because it can burn the motherboard ?

I also attached a picture with motherboard specifications when was monitored from Speccy.

I also mention that the cooler seems to work fine since it always push hot air depending on laptop's temperature and has a normal usage sound. ( as an escape after for instance playing this game for 2 hours the keyboard gets very hot on its left side where i believe that the processor is)

Please let me know about this if you got an idea.

[year+ old attachment deleted by admin]Those temps are so low compared to my inspiron 14r's normal temps (upwards of 80C) that I think you're fine. I've never heard about 71C temps 'burning' the motherboard before, I'd be interested to know where that information came fromSomething you may want to consider purchasing is a laptop standalone cooler.
http://www.google.com/search?q=laptop+coolers&hl=en&client=opera&hs=aZu&rls=en&channel=suggest&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=TUJeUKaGHaS9ywGz94DACg&ved=0CGYQsAQ&biw=1247&bih=839
As to whether your temps are excessive i cannot say (but they don't seem so to me).Contact Dell and describe your temp concern to them and see what they say. truenorthQuote from: TechnoGeek on September 22, 2012, 04:43:57 PM

I've never heard about 71C temps 'burning' the motherboard