M17x R4 7970m idle temps

Hi All

just got my new m17x and am a little curious about the temps of the 7970m.
HWInfo reports idle temps between 59c - 61c. Anyone else with this card get the same temps?

 

i'm idling much lower than that...52-53c (i think), i will confirm later when i get home...the factory paste job isn't very good and higher temps are the norm. Its highly recommended that you repaste with a quality thermal paste to drop your temps 10+ c

 

That the sort of temps i was expecting i think i'll go ahead a repaste

 

I usually idle @ 37-39°C while card stays @ 300/150mhz and now (with dual monitor) the temps read 55°C @ 400/1450mhz (GPU o/c)

Similar to you guys?

 

i'll update this thread later with my 150/300 temps

i know after stressing the computer for a while, and then I let it idle for 1 min, my temps are in the low 50's. It could have a lot to do with the fans...because at that point, my fans aren't really even on or barely on

 

Any recommendations on a good thermal paste? I used Arctic Silver 5 on my desktop cpu but I'm not sure that's a good thing for a laptop gpu since it's conductive 0.o

 

my personal fav is Prolimatech PK-1...but MX-4 is pretty good too

AS5 is old, and although it can still give great temps under the most optimal heatink to die contact situations, you probably won't get that in a laptop. you want a paste that will do well regardless of the contact... PK-1 if you can get it, MX-4 if you can't

 

Mid to low 50s = good idle temps. Have to remember that our fans turn off when idle.

 

Oh no.. I just repasted and everything works fine, turned off and on, now it wont bootup past 'starting windows' tried to repair the system and still the same. It lets me boot into safe mode so i randomly uninstalled the ati driver and now it boots fine, i try reintalling it after and the screen stays black with a flashing curser. Turn off and on and i'm back to square 1

 

is this on your R3?

 

Nope, my new r4

 

When you go into safe mode is the 7970m recognized? or do you just get a yellow exclamation mark?

just do me a favour and check one thing...is the gpu fan power plugged in?

 

Yeh it shows up as a 7970 with no explanation marks. Double checked that the fan is plugged in, i'm just running through the system diagnostics and it looks like the video card passed...

 

ok, start it up...crossing fingers...

 

fingers crossed !

 

5 beeps.. No boot

 

RTC Power fail ?

 

5 beeps?

try reseating your vid card and make sure the heatsink covers all components.

You can also try reseating the ram or even remove all except for one stick

edit: hmmm...cmos battery issue? interesting. I guess try and reseat that too

 

Right sorted the beeps.. But still not getting past "starting windows"

 

have you tried running the startup repair tool?

A Stop error occurs, or the computer stops responding when you try to start Windows Vista or Windows 7

 

Yeh that was one of the first things i tried, i did it once with the disc and once without, i also tried a restore but the problem still remained.. I'm gonna go for a clean install and prey it works after

Would still appreciate any other ideas tho anyone know what paste dell uses? Lol

 

Fresh install, just installed the ati drivers and again black screen with flashing curser...

Could a repaste really have caused the gpu to die? Or is it something else?

 

no idea bro. At this point, i guess you have to call up dell and use that warranty

 

Doesn't repasting void the warranty? Could you recomment a look alike paste to mask my tracks?

 

the laptop being so new, i don't think it matters to be honest. Even a year from now, the techs coming over to your home probably won't care.

I don't know where to get the stock generic toothpaste. I assume if you went to ebay and searched for grey thermal paste, you'd find a bunch from china

 

Ok so i turned the laptop back on this morning and it started up no problem, but the device manager shows the intel graphics & ati with a yellow explanation mark..

 

Have you done a clean install?

In the very least you ought to unistall all ati drivers then run driver sweeper and clean out any remnants of driver left. Them restart and clean install the lastest driver from AMD website. Perhaps do the same for the intel drivers.

 

its the drivers bro.

 

I tried the drivers from the restore disc and on the dell (us) site. Can't seem to download them from the uk site. Not that i think it would make to much difference, is it me or are they not listed on the ATI drivers page?

 

you better call dell support and ask them what the heck is going on? My gut though is that the 7970m drivers are still bugged. It's the Enduro and the integrated graphics

 

so im thinking about re-pasting my r4 gpu but am having seconds thoughts after what happened to that guys laptop. Isnt re-pasting usually pretty straight forward and not so risky?