Thinkpad Model: T42p - 2373-KYG
idle Temperature: 66 Celsius
HDD: 37 Celsius

Pcmark04:
Temperature: 87 Celsius
HDD: 38 Celsius

*** my laptop is running too hot, I am about to disassemble it and clean the fan etc - I will report back after applying Artic Silver to the heatsink ***

Actually with the newer bios's you can go to 2Gb. I also was looking for a new machine (partly weight, partly speed) and my central I/T guy suggested trying the memory upgrade. I do run things that consume over 1Gb and the difference is amazing. Looking at things I have a 1.8GHz CPU, a media chip th...

I had a very similar problem on another 'p' model, the A31p which has the Fire GL 7800 chip. Over a year's use the system warmed up a lot of the time and the fan never stopped. I'd opened it up several times out of curiosity but it was when I tried to play games that system would abruptly turn off. ...

Well I did it, I purchased a small tube of Arctic Silver 5 off one of the computer modding web sites - about £7.50 with postage. It is a tiny package about as big as your thumb - 3.5g in a very small tube. I then took the keyboard off my A31p using the tried and tested method, and removed the white ...

Try using MobMeter (search google on mobmeter.exe, the web site is in Japanese but there is a english page as well). It is the only utility I've found that can monitor the ACPI api and get the temperature from the motherboard probes. It works a dream ... now to get something that can CHANGE the ACPI...