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Nikhil Puttagunta

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I have a 2.5 year old MSI GE60 2OE. A couple of days ago, my laptop fan made a really loud noise and I believe it was just something hitting the fan for a split second. It went back to normal after I quickly shut down the laptop and there haven't been any fan issues since then. However, I was worried that maybe the fan was damaged or something, so I've been monitoring temperatures since then. I had never looked at temps for my laptop until yesterday and this is where the problem comes in. I found that when I'm running a game, my CPU temps peak at 99 C, which is really, really bad. I opened up and cleaned out my laptop with compressed air as best as I could. The area around around the fan and exhaust ports have a lot of tight spaces, so I don't know how well I did though.

When I was playing a game yesterday, my fans were working fine, but my CPU temps were still hitting 99 C. At idle, the CPU temps are between 35-45 C, but all it takes is a few programs like Steam and Chrome with a few tabs or a Youtube video for it to hit 55-60 C. I've done some research and a lot of MSI GE60 owners found that their temps were high too. Is there something I can do to lower temps? I've heard about reapplying thermal paste and re-setting the CPU or using a laptop cooler, but I don't know if those will help the situation significantly. This is the laptop I use for school and gaming, so I need this to last as long as possible. Thanks for the help!
 
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laptops usually have solder down CPUs so you can not reseat them or remove their coolers. About the only thing you can do is (if even possible) remove the plastic shell so you can actually see the cooling fan and clean it up completely and then use on of those laptop coolers.

That said laptops have terrible thermals due to their extremely small size. So it's possible that is as good a temp as you'll ever get out of it. A quick look suggests you might have an i7-4700MQ chip inside, which has a thermal limit of 100c. So if that's right you are right on the edge of an auto thermal shut down. http://ark.intel.com/products/75117/Intel-Core-i7-4700MQ-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_40-GHz
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laptops usually have solder down CPUs so you can not reseat them or remove their coolers. About the only thing you can do is (if even possible) remove the plastic shell so you can actually see the cooling fan and clean it up completely and then use on of those laptop coolers.

That said laptops have terrible thermals due to their extremely small size. So it's possible that is as good a temp as you'll ever get out of it. A quick look suggests you might have an i7-4700MQ chip inside, which has a thermal limit of 100c. So if that's right you are right on the edge of an auto thermal shut down. http://ark.intel.com/products/75117/Intel-Core-i7-4700MQ-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_40-GHz
 
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I've gotten the feeling that my laptop is able to limit its temp so it never hits 100 C. It allows the temp to reach 99 C, but it won't allow it to reach the limit. Either way, it's a pretty big issue that it's getting that hot, but I'm not sure how to solve the problem. I can't reseat it and cleaning it isn't doing too much. I also wonder how long it's been running at this temperature since I only started monitoring it a day or two ago. While this isn't really a reliable indicator, my laptop doesn't feel excessively hot to the touch anywhere even when the temperature is registered at 99 C, so I've also gotten the thought that maybe the temperature reading is inaccurate. Maybe my last resort is just to use a laptop cooler.
 
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It's possible the read is bad. Lots of people seem to indicate that the various temp monitors aren't 100% accurate. The fact that the CPU has never shut itself off definitely shows it's never hit 100c.

99c does seem high, though I imagine when it was brand new it was probably still getting really high like over 80c.
 
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