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Amraam

Amraam

Amraam

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No screens, but my friend gave me her laptop to look at is it kept crashing and turning off when she was playing rollercoaster tycoon3. Before she gave me if I had her try new graphics drivers etc, to no avail.

I installed speed fan and holy hell - 110C GPU and 90C CPU under load.

I've just finished taking it apart, cleaning it and reapplying TIM, and now both only hit 55C under load!
 
i have just had to do that to mine it was well ventilated and the temps were soring took it apart and the heatsink was blocked just waiting for my MX4 to turn up then going to put it back together
 
Had a similar issue with one of our laptops. Half an inch of dust had accumulated on the heatsink blocking air from the fan. I removed that and put a dab of oil on the fan bearing and it turned an obnoxiously loud laptop, that you could hear from the floor below into a thing of serenity and calm. It's a shame they make it so difficult to get at these things.
 
Amraam said:
No screens, but my friend gave me her laptop to look at is it kept crashing and turning off when she was playing rollercoaster tycoon3. Before she gave me if I had her try new graphics drivers etc, to no avail.

I installed speed fan and holy hell - 110C GPU and 90C CPU under load.

I've just finished taking it apart, cleaning it and reapplying TIM, and now both only hit 55C under load!
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good job! Tell her to be careful not to block the vents :)
 
Tealc said:
Had a similar issue with one of our laptops. Half an inch of dust had accumulated on the heatsink blocking air from the fan. I removed that and put a dab of oil on the fan bearing and it turned an obnoxiously loud laptop, that you could hear from the floor below into a thing of serenity and calm. It's a shame they make it so difficult to get at these things.
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Same here mate, it looked like a solid block of foam of something.

I only had two bolts left. No idea which ones I missed lol

Just shows how much of a budget they are built to. I have never seem such poorly applied TIM before. Even for a laptop, 1 fan and a few vents isn't enough IMO.
 
Need to do that with my XPS M1330, it's always full blast on the fans once a few web pages are open.

Well out of warranty so probably a good project to do. Taken these apart plenty of times to, so shouldn't be too tricky.

Edit: LOL 75C at 30% CPU. Yeah it needs a clean.
 
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