Cryo Mercia Laptop System Review

Temperatures of a laptop are important, especially if you are using it on your knee. We are using diodes to measure temperatures today and we have attached 5 to the rear of the chassis to measure heat being passed through the materials. There are two fans and the air is vented in through the underside of the chassis out the rear. It is important that these two circular vents are not blocked otherwise air flow can be compromised.

Room ambient temperatures were maintained at 25c and Furmark was started in conjunction with a looped run of Prime. HD Tach was looped to keep the hard drive busy. This shows a total ‘worst case' scenario.

The graphics card core hit around 95c with Furmark, and around 87c when running Crysis. The fan gets audible around 86c and maintains high levels of airflow until gaming is stopped. The processor is maintained around 70-73c under load and we were not able to push it higher. Chassis position 1 gets the hottest during our testing as air flow through here is very high indeed as the fans battle to expel the generated heat, which is significant. Air being pushed out the rear of the chassis in this region is around 40c. Gaming with the system on a lap is rather difficult as it can become uncomfortable after 20 minutes.

We don't really like to note temperatures of 95c with a graphics card, however we experienced no crashes or artifacting throughout Furmark benchmark runs or when playing Crysis, so it seems to be running within parameters. We would like to see Cryo having a look into this however as we believe with a higher grade paste or some adjustments that the temperatures could be lowered by several degrees C.

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