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brythespy

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I has this laptop here. Acer Aspire V3-571G, it has Intel Core i7-3610QM and Nvidia GT 640M.

I have a feeling something is wrong, with the thermal or cooling and stuff.

I just got this laptop a few months ago.

When I start it up the GPU temp is already 50ish C and the CPU almost never goes below 55C.

Under load the GPU gets up to 70C and rarely goes above that, but the CPU can push 95C sometimes. I looked at the temps when it hit 97C and I got a little scared and turned the laptop off lol

Is this normal, if not should I risk taking apart the laptop to re-apply thermal paste? I have some Arctic Silver stuff but some people say it isn't good, but is it at least better than whatever generic ass stuff ACER applies?
 
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Unfortunately most laptops have rather poor airflow, and high temperatures are to be expected, all you can do is try not to get up to the throttling point of your CPU and graphics card. Always make sure the air intakes are clear of dust, and you may want to invest in a cooling pad. You can try dismantling the laptop and repasting the CPU, but I would only do it as a last resort, as doing so is likely to void your warranty, and the temperature gains may be rather small, making it not really worth all the trouble.
 
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Ah, this was a while back, but thanks for the answers guys. As for the update to the situation, it got to the point where, while gaming, it hit 90C for both the GPU and CPU, throttling the GPU to 135mhz and CPU to 1.1Ghz.

I contacted Acer support and, surprisingly, they were actually helpful.

The solution, for anyone who might potentially find this who has the same problem, is updating your BIOS, then resetting it by going into setup, loading defaults then exit with saving. I didn't even think to try it because there are only like, 5 settings you can even change, but apparently it resets more than those settings you have access to. Such as the fan controller being faulty.

Edit: the problem was the fan would not kick in regardless of the fan temperature, staying the same RPM from 40C to 100C, which is bad. Resetting the BIOS lets it regain control and now it kicks in higher RPM when the temperature goes up.
 
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