What temperture of system is normal?

What temperture of system is normal? i am using zorin 5.2 someone know if 68C - 71C is normaL? of is too hot? i imagine is the processor temperture [ i am using a software for monitoring the temperture. I am worry about this. ..

68-71 is over the normalfigures. Your normal temps when idle should be 40-50-55 or generally below 60.

I repeat, when idle. If you play a heavy game or watch 2-3 youtube flash videos simultaneously, the temp rises.

What is your GPU?
Post the result of:

Code:

lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 VGA

Ok sometimes my system reach 73C which i undertands is too hot and as i heard - [ in some place can't remember which page online was ]this can make short the live of the processor or motherboard components; it is the risk. Can I fix this problem maybe upgradig the kernel? taking in present i am using yet zorin 5.2. I have dual book and altough i can confess practically i use windows 2% time and 98% zorin. But for only compare in win7 the temperture is relative slow 65C. In this moment the temperture using Zorin 5.2 is 69C. Anyway any suggestion will be appreciated. Thanks

As I said, please provide the result of the command I gave above. Usually the temp rises due to the GPU. If you have an ATI GPU I can tell you a nice trick to lower the temp.

Another thing is that you have to keep the laptop clean, especially the laptop fan. Also, if you use a laptop fan-base it helps a lot to keep the laptop cool.

Ok following your suggestion [ thanks for your attention ] the Terminal show this [ nelson@PC1:~$ lspci -nnk | grep -iA3 VGA
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200] [1002:9712]
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device [103c:1604]
Kernel driver in use: radeon
Kernel modules: radeon
really i dont know what to do with this i am a linux user yet not expert in command line.... but anyway maybe you can have some idea what its meaning .... i will try to clean the fan of the laptop too for to see if make a difference in temperture..... thanks!

I suspected you had an ATI card and you are using the radeon driver. I will show you a trick to get lower temps instantly.

Open terminal and write

Code:

sudo su
echo low >  /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile

Check your temps again. You will hopefully see a significant drop, maybe 10 degrees down.
In order not to do this after every restart, we can make it permanent.
In terminal write:

Code:

gksu gedit /etc/rc.local

In the file that will open, add the following line just one line above the word "exit 0" that is located at the bottom of the file.

(sleep 30 ; echo low > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile) &

That's it.
To test if we have made it permanent, reboot, and in terminal write

Code:

cat /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile

If the reply you get is "low", then all is well.

I use lm-sensors, psensor and hddtemp.

And here is a little trick I found out. If you install lm-sensors, you can open terminal and write

Code:

watch -n1 sensors

You will be getting live change of temps (updated every 1 second) from your terminal.


As regards the ATI cards, I would suggest to use the open drivers (radeon) with my trick for low temps. If you see that you get any issues, you can set everything back the way it was and activate the proprietary drivers.