Overheating without specific reason - Lenovo G510
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Panays
October 11, 2014 7:36:45 AM
Hi forum, I bought my labtop 1 month ago and i noticed that eventhough when it was idle the most of the times the temps were from 38-42C suddenly it was reaching 80-85C without any application running. I was wondering if, has it something to do with the drivers or power management?? what can be the proplem?
The specs are:
intel i7 4700MQ
Amd R7 M265 2gb
8gb ram
120gb SSD
1TB HDD
*Also when i start a game the temps are also around 80C even with a cooling pad.
Thank you,
The specs are:
intel i7 4700MQ
Amd R7 M265 2gb
8gb ram
120gb SSD
1TB HDD
*Also when i start a game the temps are also around 80C even with a cooling pad.
Thank you,
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IrnMan
October 11, 2014 7:48:18 AM
At those temps it is likely that the overheating has damaged the heatsinks/fans inside the laptop which is causing it to overheat further. If its still in warranty you might be able to get a replacement, although as this has been caused by you gaming on it you may not be able to claim it on the warranty.
In which case, I would take the laptop apart, remove the fans and heat sinks and clean it all out with compressed air. Remove and reapply any old thermal paste and possibly replace the old fans and heat sinks depending on their condition. (You'll want to check these are available for purchase before removing them, check ebay).
If you don't think you can do that yourself then try taking it to a repair shop and for future reference I wouldn't game often, or at all, on the laptop.
In which case, I would take the laptop apart, remove the fans and heat sinks and clean it all out with compressed air. Remove and reapply any old thermal paste and possibly replace the old fans and heat sinks depending on their condition. (You'll want to check these are available for purchase before removing them, check ebay).
If you don't think you can do that yourself then try taking it to a repair shop and for future reference I wouldn't game often, or at all, on the laptop.
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Panays
October 11, 2014 9:25:51 AM
i never played on the laptop, only one time and when i noticed that it runs around 80C i never tryed again + the laptop is brand new i doubt that the heatsink has a proplem. Do you think that this can be caused from the GPU? they use same heatsink with the CPU. Also in HWmonitor i cant see anywhere my gpu temps, i can see only Lenovo Invalid
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IrnMan
October 11, 2014 10:39:31 AM
Take a screenshot of HWMonitor and upload it. It may not be a heatsink issue, although if your laptop genuinely has been running at 80C+ then I would be surprised if the heatsink/fans/sensors/hardware hadn't been damaged in some way due to the poor way in which laptops dissipate heat and the generally less robust hardware used in laptops.
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Panays
October 11, 2014 3:38:57 PM
IrnMan said:
Take a screenshot of HWMonitor and upload it. It may not be a heatsink issue, although if your laptop genuinely has been running at 80C+ then I would be surprised if the heatsink/fans/sensors/hardware hadn't been damaged in some way due to the poor way in which laptops dissipate heat and the generally less robust hardware used in laptops.the laptop is not consistenly running at 80C but it peaks to 80C sometimes without doing any processing (when i leave it on idling) and then go back down to 40C.
http://postimg.org/image/eofgj60ph/
http://postimg.org/image/nsrxsavz1/
btw it has a system called silent fan technology do you think the fan works on its lowest so its peaks to 80C for a moment and then the fan start to cool it down?
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IrnMan
October 12, 2014 4:14:58 AM
I've had a look at information regarding the temperatures of the i7 4700mq and in a lot of cases it hits around 90c under full load. However 80c at idle seems like there is a problem.
Silent fan technology will make the fans kick in when they are needed as opposed to running at 100% all the time, but it would not wait until the temperature hits 80c before doing so.
Your options for trying to lower the temperature would be to clean out the inside of laptop (remove any dust that could be blocking airways), check heatsinks (possibly removing old thermal paste and replacing it with something like Arctic Silver 5), buy a cooling pad for the laptop or, when performance isn't as important, turn off turbo boost/under clock the CPU
Silent fan technology will make the fans kick in when they are needed as opposed to running at 100% all the time, but it would not wait until the temperature hits 80c before doing so.
Your options for trying to lower the temperature would be to clean out the inside of laptop (remove any dust that could be blocking airways), check heatsinks (possibly removing old thermal paste and replacing it with something like Arctic Silver 5), buy a cooling pad for the laptop or, when performance isn't as important, turn off turbo boost/under clock the CPU
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Panays
October 12, 2014 9:09:55 AM
Yes, actually the thermal paste may not the best, but can you check this for me plz?
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-3000-and-Essential/...
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-3000-and-Essential/...
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