Will GTX 870m be Thermal Throttled in ZeusBook Edge X6 100 Gaming Laptop

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Hello,

I am looking to purchase a ZeusBook Edge X6 100 Gaming Laptop. This is for light gaming use and will function mostly as a college notebook and needs to be mobile. So please don't post snarky comments about how I should just build a desktop for the money. I know I should. I'm not going to.

I made some mild changes to the base config and I'm happy with these. My question is whether the GTX 870m will be subject to thermal throttling due to the thinness, .28 inches, and as a result poor cooling, of the machine. From what I have read it seems that the 870m is toasty enough for this to be a problem. If this is indeed the case, would I be better off trying to find something with an 860m as I will get more out of that slower GPU?

Thank you for your help,

Leigh.
 
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I'm currently using "DeepCool Z9" and I think it's incredible. It cost me ~ 10$ a tube and you can do at least 5-7 applications with that much paste.

The thing is that since your laptop will be new you'll have a warranty period for it. Warranties for laptops get voided if you tamper with it (aka open it up). What you can do is ask the guys from the shop you're buying the laptop from to apply some paste for you (which you will provide to them).

The tricky part: not every shop will accept this; even if they do, they might go in the back to apply the paste, do nothing, then come back and say they did it. You can't really check because you aren't allowed to open it.

OPTIMUM SOLUTION:
- take it as it is,
- install whatever you wanna...
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A good thermal paste can make all the difference. I changed a friend's thermal paste for his laptop and his top temps dropped from ~ 100 to ~ 70. Aside from that: you can take the bottom off (more access to fresh air and better suction) and you can put your bottomless laptop on a cooling pad

Cooling pads are all trash (80% of them at least), but if the cooling pad is blowing directly on the hot component, then you're gonna see some serious temperature drops.
 
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Could you suggest a good thermal paste? Regardless, the system won't need to rely on the GPU as it will be mostly used for Word and surffing the web.

Thanks for you answer.
 
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I'm currently using "DeepCool Z9" and I think it's incredible. It cost me ~ 10$ a tube and you can do at least 5-7 applications with that much paste.

The thing is that since your laptop will be new you'll have a warranty period for it. Warranties for laptops get voided if you tamper with it (aka open it up). What you can do is ask the guys from the shop you're buying the laptop from to apply some paste for you (which you will provide to them).

The tricky part: not every shop will accept this; even if they do, they might go in the back to apply the paste, do nothing, then come back and say they did it. You can't really check because you aren't allowed to open it.

OPTIMUM SOLUTION:
- take it as it is,
- install whatever you wanna install on it,
- get AIDA64 and do the system stress test and see at what temps your CPU stands after 1:30 minutes of the test,
- get Furmark and do the benchmark test and see what's your top temperature, average temperature and how well the image is shown,

You're looking for having both the CPU and GPU well under 70. Even at 70 they're (relatively) ok but that leaves room for improvement.
Anything over 70 and they will throttle (decrease their performance to decrease the overheating); anything over 90 is actually dangerous enough to damage the chip/ motherboard/ other components!
Going ~60 or lower might even bring you performance gains (not much; but I saw a 10% increase in an older GPU of mine).

If your temps when buying the laptop are ~70, get a good cooling pad that blows air directly in the holes of your backplate and see where that gets you. If even after this you didn't reach 65-67 then go to the shop you bought it from and ask them to apply the aftermarket thermal paste that you'll provide. If they can't/ won't then you either live with it (70 degrees is pretty ok) or you risk voiding your warranty and open it up to change the paste yourself.

Keep in mind that I had a friend who opened up his laptop to upgrade his ram then had to send it to the service because of some mobo problems and they accepted it! -> his warranty wasn't voided! But he did know the risk.

That should cover everything up! I hope this helped you and I hope your laptop will be as cool as an autumn breeze :D!
 
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