Since I bought this laptop I've had issues with the graphic card hitting extremely high temps. It usually idles at around 70-75C, but while I'm gaming it can hit and has hit 105C. I've never seen it go above that, except once it hit 106C while playing Starcraft 2 on all high settings and since then I've never played the game on high settings because I'm afraid it might fry my graphics card. I understand some graphics cards are built to throttle the amount of usage if it starts to run to hot, but still 105C is EXTREMELY hot.
After getting tired of worrying about the heat, I decided to cut a two inch hole where the fan is and I placed wire mesh over the hole to block dust particles. This did help reduce my temp about 10C, but it's still extremely hot and has been getting hotter lately.
So recently I was playing Diablo 3 at almost max settings and it would stay around 93-95C which isn't bad, but if I'm in a group with like 3-5 people it would hit between 100-105C again. And these are the temps after cutting a hole in the bottom of my laptop. So me of course getting frusterated, I decided to open up the back panel, use a can of compressed air to blow out all the dust from the fan and stuff, and I even applied new thermal paste to the heatsink. Now I'm not sure if I did it right, but I believe I did. The paste came in a tiny (nail polish sized) bottle and there was a brush attached to the cap of it (kind of like nail polish), so I used the brush to gently spread it on the parts where the heatsink make contact with the components. (Graphics card/processor/motherboard/etc...) So I put the heatsink back on and put my computer back together.
Now it idles between 80-90C and I haven't even tried playing a game yet because I'm afraid it might overheat now. I'm not sure what I did. I thought adding new thermal paste would make it run cooler, but instead it made it a lot worse. I honestly don't think I put it on wrong. The only thing I can think, is that the thermal paste I used might be old and "Bad". Like how do you tell if it's no good anymore? I've had it for awhile, but it still seemed ok to me, although it did seem quite watery.
These are the specs of my computer for those of you wondering why my graphics card runs so hot. (It's the only thing in my computer that tends to run extremely hot.) Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm183/DemonKilo/Screenshot1_zps8d37c2d8.png
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm183/DemonKilo/Screenshot2_zps1c1f5b1f.png
After getting tired of worrying about the heat, I decided to cut a two inch hole where the fan is and I placed wire mesh over the hole to block dust particles. This did help reduce my temp about 10C, but it's still extremely hot and has been getting hotter lately.
So recently I was playing Diablo 3 at almost max settings and it would stay around 93-95C which isn't bad, but if I'm in a group with like 3-5 people it would hit between 100-105C again. And these are the temps after cutting a hole in the bottom of my laptop. So me of course getting frusterated, I decided to open up the back panel, use a can of compressed air to blow out all the dust from the fan and stuff, and I even applied new thermal paste to the heatsink. Now I'm not sure if I did it right, but I believe I did. The paste came in a tiny (nail polish sized) bottle and there was a brush attached to the cap of it (kind of like nail polish), so I used the brush to gently spread it on the parts where the heatsink make contact with the components. (Graphics card/processor/motherboard/etc...) So I put the heatsink back on and put my computer back together.
Now it idles between 80-90C and I haven't even tried playing a game yet because I'm afraid it might overheat now. I'm not sure what I did. I thought adding new thermal paste would make it run cooler, but instead it made it a lot worse. I honestly don't think I put it on wrong. The only thing I can think, is that the thermal paste I used might be old and "Bad". Like how do you tell if it's no good anymore? I've had it for awhile, but it still seemed ok to me, although it did seem quite watery.
These are the specs of my computer for those of you wondering why my graphics card runs so hot. (It's the only thing in my computer that tends to run extremely hot.) Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm183/DemonKilo/Screenshot1_zps8d37c2d8.png
http://i296.photobucket.com/albums/mm183/DemonKilo/Screenshot2_zps1c1f5b1f.png
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