I have a love/hate history with Dell Inspiron Series. A friend of mine owned multiple of them, never had a problem. I also used some at work, all great. Then I got one Inspiron 5567 that worked maybe for 6 months then died all of a sudden. No local technician was able to put together what it was (just a general "dead" motherboard). I kinda of gave up on it after a while. This was like 2017-18. In 2021 I decided to revive it and ordered a new mobo from Aliexpress (was an i7 + R7 M445, got an i7 + R7 M440). Had the parts swapped turned on and it was alive again! But the fan noise was like a jet turbine. And got really hot too sometimes, even with fan at full speed. I shrugged it off because I gave it to my girlfriend and she only used it to play The Sims 4 all the time. But THEN AGAIN it just decided to unalive itself out of the blue. At that point I just gave up for real. So, maybe keep a heads up with this fan at full speed all the time, might not turn nice in a few months. My (unfounded) conspiracy theory is that my problem was the same GPU solder-bumps problems as the XBOX 360 Red Ring of Death. But that is just a guess. If anyone know anything, or have suffered from the same fate, let me know if there is something that can save it.
I think it's very much possible that your motherboard gave out because of these high temperatures. Exposing components to such high temps all the time surely can't be good for longevity. I'm going to move this fella on, I can't be bothered listening to that fan all the time while it burns my fingers haha.
I have the previous generation of this laptop with the same gpu but dual core i7 7500u instead but has the exact same problem and that model seems to have the same cooler so I'm not surprised. The 940mx is also just a weak gpu but the mx150 that came after isn't as bad. I also bought and returned a Dell gaming laptop because not even that would cool it self. Dell just don't like cooling their laptops so I would avoid them in general :/
I have little experience with Dell machines, I had one but that was years ago. On the surface they look good but if all of their cooling systems are like this? For sure not all of them are this bad.
@MacintoshMen from my experience dell were good up until 2015 but after that it seems they all have similar issues. A friend of mine bought a top spec XPS and I checked with them and while it's not as bad as the inspiron 7000 series it still runs hot and eventually hits 100c on the cpu with the fans at max at around 50-60% cpu load. It is a shame as they look good and feel quality
It's because Inspiron are Dell's consumer line. They are poorly made. Similar to HP Pavilion. They all have hinge problems where they break after a year or so of use. Also if you take it apart, make sure you don't break anything - parts are near impossible to source.
Thanks for letting me know. It's good practise to avoid the consumer line laptops from mostly all manufacturers and stick to the business line notebooks. Those are usually pretty good.
@@MacintoshMen improves a lot, on this kind of machine. It hurts only on Ryzen 3000 desktop and intel 12 and 13 locked CPUs. On Haswell to Coffee Lake, when it's not locked, gives huge efficiency gains - being either power reduction at same speed or performance improvement at same power depending on the situation
