will dust break my laptop?

Throughout the winter I have kept my cooling fan off without issue. But today my computer shut down. When I restarted and looked at the Speccy, I saw.....

CPU: 128F
Motherboard: 117F
Graphics: 115F

Now that my fan is on, I am running everything at 105 or lower.



My question is, is it bad that my fan blows dust at the bottom of my laptop? Will this cause increased wear on the machine?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834997737

 

Not following you. With temps like that, it is possible that your machine has some furballs on the heat sink, and needs blown out. What do you use your laptop on, when you are using it? On a table, or sitting in your lap, or on your bed on top of the sheets?

I have seen my netbook get up to the 120's, but usually when it is warm outside, and we do not have the A/C on. Otherwise, it would run around 112.

 

What is your laptop model my friend ? At the bottom of the laptop there is a sticker similiar to this

http://www.zkarlo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/ToshibaModelNumber.jpg

you must inform us about this ( model number etc ) !! :wave

 

Greetings, brahman...

Agreed with the others: a good cleaning may be in order. Concerning the discrete cooling unit: if you feel that it will help, go for it and don't worry about it 'blowing dust at the bottom of your laptop'. The benefits will far outweigh the risks.

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@ gloozit: Those are Fahrenheit temps that brahman (and probably brownizs) quoted, not Celsius. Big difference.

 

61C=142F on my P4 desktop with an older P4.
Just compared with SpeedFan.
Those temps aren't really excessive.

 

gloozit, I do not have to worry anymore, because I no longer run Windows 7 on my netbook. Windows is the best way to turn a notebook or netbook into a room heater. Here soon, the drive will be changed to a SSD, so it will even run cooler. As for my temps, 112 is not far off from your temp, and unless it stays up in the 140's and does not go down, yes life will be shortened, especially if the hard drive temps stay high.

 

Right now with Ubuntu 11.10 running on my Netbook, the Harddrive is 36c/96f, CPU is 46c/114.8f. Not much different than when I was running Win7 on it.