Dell Precision M6500 Overheating issue\CPU Issue

I will tell you that M6500s run hot naturally, I have quite a few of these and the fans kick on all the time. Some of our users put them on cooling pads to avoid this issue. Generally if you have one of these machines, you are doing video rendering, CAD, other CPU-intensive applications. So what are you running? May very well be whatever application you are running has a process running in the background. Have you checked your msconfig and scheduled tasks? If it is running OK in safe mode sounds like you have something at startup that just wont stop using resorces (service or process). Check what is chewing through CPU in System Monitor, specifically which process. Also, might want to consider using updating graphics driver through the vendor (NVIDIA likely) and not just Dell. If everything looks good, Antonio is right, you just have...

So we have many of these Dell Precision M6500 Laptops. Most of them give no issue. But we have one that likes to overheat and slow its self way down.When I first got my hands on it, I wiped the computer and reinstalled Windows 7. But it was still bogged down so I decided to see what processes were running. Nothing out of the ordinary but somehow 78% of the CPU was still being used, which was causing the fans to blare and the entire laptop to get warm\hot. So I then booted it into safe mode. Ran just find then. Minimal delay on actions. So it was running exactly like it was supposed to. Then I booted back up into the OS and it was already lagging again. Ran Trend Micro titanium and it managed to speed up boot time by 5 seconds. Ran CCleaner but it didn't find much. Malwarebytes came up empty.So then I thought that maybe upgrading it to...
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Hi Chiccorosso!
I appreciate that I'm "playing with the big boys now" and that my hardware is pretty old... However I was just really confused as to why it was this bad... Garageband handles playing a piano patch with ease, whereas MainStage, set up to do exactly the same task, runs my CPU at full pelt even when no sounds are being played!
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I think I'd do the SSD and the RAM first and see how it goes. What is he running for a graphics card?
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CPU Issues with music production.
Hey guys. I bet this sort of question has been asked so many times, but i really have spent a long time searching google to get an answer. I have had no luck. I found many things on the subject, but nothing about this exact situation.
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Alexander Farrar wrote:
Okay, I have a Macbook 4.1 which has 2gb of ram, 2.1 GHz Intel core 2 duo processor, and a 111 gb HD with a rpm of 5400.
111Gigs is a small disk
How much free space in your system disk?
when a disk contain files from over than 80% and only about 20% is free the speed of the hard drive goes down... some disk can loose more than 50% of fast addressing speed
Leopard require at least 50GB free space for run without problem!
for better performance up to 1/3 of the disk size should be required...
I have been having major CPU overloads whilst using Logic 8, And it is much worse when using Pro Tools 7.2 M-Powered.
you use Logic with a Digidesign Drivers?
try to disconnect the Digi device and use Internal Audio of your Mac...
maybe only that can solve your issue.
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buying a 320GB at 7200?
I suggest you a 500GB at 5400 RPM
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The hard drive temperature is strictly related with disk speed performance
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Thank you for your response!
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Understated,
Sounds like you are in Canada.
Skip MSI; they have not been getting much of a reputation for solid, reliable, laptops for video editing.
Asus is selling rock-bottom priced laptops if you really need to cut cost to the bone.
My first choice recommendation would be to go with an ADK laptop. They are a audio/video editing centric company that has excellent laptops (Sager / Cleo platform) and excellent support for pretty decent prices on high-spec configurations. Unlike the HP/Dell laptops, their 15.6" 1980x1080 has expansion for multiple drives while retaining your optical bay.
HP and Dell are OK too, but more expensive for fully loaded configurations. Both companies provide a really nice base model, but then charge a lot for adding memory, drives, etc.
Dell provides really decent CPU choices, but you need to go to the "large business" section of their web site to see those CPU choices for the M4700.
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