My wife has a Intel Core i7-720QM Processor powered Dell, bought in 2010. The past few days, it has been shutting down on its own, so I figured it was just dusty. Cleaned it out, and had the same results. I installed a temp monitor (forgot the exact one) and it was idling around 80c on all 4 cores not running any foreground apps.
Tore the laptop down to the motherboard, and cleaned and re-added Thermal Compound to the GPU and CPU, but has the same issues. I dropped the max cpu usage down to 65%, and have a box fan blowing on it, and idling around mid 70c.
Any suggestions? I am reading alot of overheating issues with this model laptop, but seems strange it would just crop up like this all of a sudden. It seems a replacement CPU would run $300+ so at this point I would rather put the funds toward a replacement, rather than tossing cash at what may, or may not be the issue.
Tore the laptop down to the motherboard, and cleaned and re-added Thermal Compound to the GPU and CPU, but has the same issues. I dropped the max cpu usage down to 65%, and have a box fan blowing on it, and idling around mid 70c.
Any suggestions? I am reading alot of overheating issues with this model laptop, but seems strange it would just crop up like this all of a sudden. It seems a replacement CPU would run $300+ so at this point I would rather put the funds toward a replacement, rather than tossing cash at what may, or may not be the issue.
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