Clevo P150SM

Snodge

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Good afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, I recently purchased a laptop from somebody on the bay. It cost me £600 these are the specs :

15.6" AUO Matte 95% Gamut Widescreen (1920x1080)
Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4700MQ (2.40GHz) 6MB
16GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 (4 x 4GB)
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 770M - 3.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
1TB WD SCORPIO BLUE WD10JPVT, SATA 3 Gb/s, 8MB CACHE
ARCTIC MX-4 EXTREME THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY COMPOUND
GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ 1202 WIRELESS GAMING 802.11N + BLUETOOTH 4.0
INTEGRATED BACKLIT UK KEYBOARD WITH NUMBER PAD
Windows 8.1 Professional (download edition, will be provided on a 8GB USB stick. 100% legit brought from the Microsoft store.)
DVD - WR and CD - WR slot loading drive
Wenger GA-7469-14 Insight Single Laptop Case.
3 Year Silver Warranty (1 Year Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour) started on 28-06-2013.

The laptop has been absolutely fine running games fine until I put it under some serious stress with Battlefield 4 on high which fraps was stating it was 60 fps but it certainly didn't feel like 60 fps so I checked the temperatures and the CPU was rising to as high as 98 degrees which is apparently "ok" and the GPU doesn't go over 77 degrees which is perfectly acceptable.

I raised an RMA with the supplier of the laptop saying could you take a look at both of the heatsinks and reapply the paste if you feel it's necessary and they declined the RMA which I was a bit annoyed about however my question to you guys is do you think repasting will sort my CPU temperatures out?

Thanks for reading.
 
CPU temperature does seem very high. My P170SM with the same CPU only gets into the 70's under load (they have the same HSF designs IIRC).

A couple of quite things you can try are ensuring all of the vents are clear of dust and get the laptop propped up at the back when gaming.

Failing that a re-paste of the CPU is in order. This is relatively straight forward as long you take your time. The screws used on the heatsink are TINY so just be careful when removing them / tightening them up.

Repasting helped my GTX780M which is a hot running beast (especially overclocked).
 
Do you really think repasting could reduce load temperatures by 30 degrees? :D

If so I'll do my GPU and CPU. What paste would you recommend? :D I've already cleared the dust from the fans and the vents.

Some pictures of before and after

Before - http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s361/ben_stevens2/CPUbefore_zps56f092b6.jpg
after - http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s361/ben_stevens2/CPUafter_zpsafe2eb26.jpg

Before - http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s361/ben_stevens2/GPUbefore_zpsd9de7c03.jpg
after - http://s1048.photobucket.com/user/ben_stevens2/media/GPUAfter_zps33c68484.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1
 
Hey there, I just purchased the Clevo W370SS - Mine has a i7 4700MQ and a 860M - the GPU never hits above 70 degrees and the CPU hits around 70 - 80 on max load - If I were you, I would reapply thermal paste and give it a good old cleaning.
 
Snodge said:
Do you really think repasting could reduce load temperatures by 30 degrees? :D

If so I'll do my GPU and CPU. What paste would you recommend? :D I've already cleared the dust from the fans and the vents.

Some pictures of before and after

Before - http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s361/ben_stevens2/CPUbefore_zps56f092b6.jpg
after - http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s361/ben_stevens2/CPUafter_zpsafe2eb26.jpg

Before - http://i1048.photobucket.com/albums/s361/ben_stevens2/GPUbefore_zpsd9de7c03.jpg
after - http://s1048.photobucket.com/user/ben_stevens2/media/GPUAfter_zps33c68484.jpg.html?sort=3&o=1
Click to expand...

Sorry I was offline last night.

In an ideal world you shouldn't see re-pastes dropping temps massively but, sadly sometimes the paste jobs done by the system builders leave a lot to be desired.

I am using MX-2 on my 780M and I can't really fault it. With a decent paste job you are going to see similar temperatures with all of the decent TIM's.
 
As soon as I bought my Clevo I repasted it with MX-2 as I knew the stuff they use on laptops sucks, so it's always worth it replacing the stuff they come built with.

In a review (linkhttp://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Clevo-W370SS-Nexoc-G728II-Barebones-Notebook.114640.0.html) I read the temperatures on the CPU hit 95+ and the GPU hit 80~, on my exact same laptop as suggested before I never hit above 80~ CPU and 70 GPU~.

Re-paste it and see if it helps, it certainly did me (By the way, my GPU is overclocked at around 20% like you said and it still never hits above 70)
 
Stripped my P170EM and re-pasted the CPU and GPU, also added some "speed" tape to seal the gaps between the two HSF assemblies, worked wonders.
 
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