Laptop Over Heating

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Hi
I have a Asus G1S 2ghz Core 2 Duo,2gb Ram, 8600m gt, 160gb hdd. Now i have noticed it recently when i take it off the cooling pad it begins to heat up very quickly, I have also noticed that it is starting to run sluggish, I reinstalled vista but still the same.
So what can i do about it heating up, Can i turn the 8600 off and just use onboard or is that not possible?? and also what can i do about it running slow, more ram, win 7?
I have it on the lowest battery setting possible while on battery with max cpu usage at 20% i think this could be causing it to run slow. But the most important thing is the heat.
Thanks guys
 
Check the CPU and GPU heatsink. If it's clogged up with dust then it will cause all matter of problems.
 
Thanks fellas I wil pick up a can of
air tommorrow, will that do the trick?
I just flipped my laptop over took off one of the little panels and there is the CPU and gfx and your correct quite a bit of dust, do I just spray around in there or is there a particular way to do it?
I opened another panel and it was the hdd and that was very hot is that normal?
 
Hard drive does get hot. If using the spray, either do it outside or use a vac to catch the dirt that gets sprayed out of the laptop.

Check the fans and also the vents where the air comes out of the laptop for blockages.
 
Would a 12v compressor be ok for it, So just do outside and just blow away until it's all gone.

Is there anything that I can do about the hdd heat, Upgrade to new one?
Also anyone have any ideas on how to speed up my laptop, Am I right in thinking more ram would help??
 
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Compressed air from cans is a good idea. Specifically designed for what you want to do with them. Direct the air directly towards the fans etc, forcing the dirt out of the crevices etc and out of the laptop.
 
Unless your laptop gets dusty inside very quickly, I cant see you having to keep buying can after can of compressed air. I managed to clean out a few desktop pc's with my can of air, so doing a laptop now and again wont use up much air.

My advice would be to open up the cover over the exhaust for the CPU and take out the heatsink and give it a good clean before applying a bit of thermal compound then screwing the heatsink back in. Do this for the GPU as well if needed (depending on laptop)

This will help the laptop run better and cooler, maybe the performance was being affected by the heat and thus you are finding it slow even after re-install.

Edit: As for changing the hard drive, it's not really going to make much difference in a laptop anyway as the lack of cooling around the HDD will make any drive run hot, thus it's only worth upgrading if you need/want to upgrade to a larger drive. IMO anyway.
 
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Ok I think I will juar use my air compressor which I use for blowing up footballs e.t.c I have just looked under the cover again and I can't see anywhere to remove screws to take the CPU cooler out,Any ideas?
 
no need to take cooler out, to do that would probably need to strip the laptop completly, cant see a 12v compressor having enough force in it, can of air is the best idea, also try not to let you fan spin as heard that could send a current back
 
you can also try undervolting the cpu
it doesnt slow the cpu down at all but can drop the temps by as much as 15c
i have done it to mine and temp went from 50c down to 37c and its not affected the cpu in anyway.
the program to use is rightmark cpu clock utility.
i dropped the volts on mine from 1.5v to 0.9750v
no blue screens or crashes its still running at 2.2gig, just 13c lower temps
 
Well turns out my compressor doesn't work so i'm gonna go into town and find some air lol, I will try that undervolting, It doesn't harm the CPU like
over volting does it?
 
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A mate of mine is coming round later to help service my van and hes bringing his compressor with him, Its a very powerful one he tells me but can be turned down so i may use that. Can someone explain to me how to underclock my cpu using rightmark?
 
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