WOW it took me a month to figure this out...
It started with the computer randomly freezing resulting in a required hard reboot...this brought me to forum after forum after forum....yada yada
i have a dv7 3165dx hp laptop...for most hp dv series you can fix your overheating laptop (usually from gaming or otherwise taxing the GPU) for one cent!
i am still going to install a water cooling system since summer is here, and possibly make a permanent and much more efficient heat sink system but for now i was lazy and took a penny out of my pocket at work and realized what to do so i could game tonight....
take a penny and file it down smooth as a mirror (or damn close) and flat as a countertop on both sides.
open up your laptop (google it if you don't know how)
remove that mass produced sad excuse of a heat sink that HP gave you and locate the northbride that would be your GPU...on it will most likely be the thermal padding...toss this
apply thermal paste to either side of the penny and put it where the padding was and put it all back together.
i re-applied the cpu thermal paste while in there and it's running 4C cooling idle now...and oh my what a shocker, the games aren't locking up my pc.
....i will def post on here the detailed DIY instructions for the watercooling/improved heatsink (if it works)...for now i just had to share this penny revelation.
It started with the computer randomly freezing resulting in a required hard reboot...this brought me to forum after forum after forum....yada yada
i have a dv7 3165dx hp laptop...for most hp dv series you can fix your overheating laptop (usually from gaming or otherwise taxing the GPU) for one cent!
i am still going to install a water cooling system since summer is here, and possibly make a permanent and much more efficient heat sink system but for now i was lazy and took a penny out of my pocket at work and realized what to do so i could game tonight....
take a penny and file it down smooth as a mirror (or damn close) and flat as a countertop on both sides.
open up your laptop (google it if you don't know how)
remove that mass produced sad excuse of a heat sink that HP gave you and locate the northbride that would be your GPU...on it will most likely be the thermal padding...toss this
apply thermal paste to either side of the penny and put it where the padding was and put it all back together.
i re-applied the cpu thermal paste while in there and it's running 4C cooling idle now...and oh my what a shocker, the games aren't locking up my pc.
....i will def post on here the detailed DIY instructions for the watercooling/improved heatsink (if it works)...for now i just had to share this penny revelation.