Ouch!

[Amraam]

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!

 

[Amraam]

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.

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.