ASUS G73Jh (Danger, heat - follow screenshot)

Well, if you look here - this is when I'm just on ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum, nothing else is running:

Now the weird thing, the FAN is pretty quiet with 76c heat on.
But sometimes when I'm just browsing the web the FAN starts getting louder but when I look at this GPU-Z software, the FAN speed never moves away from 30%, ever, like -ever-.

Not even when it's on 90c.

So what's up here, software failure or?
And is there a way to speed up the fans?

(By the way this screenshot at the top was taken after I had a random shutdown while being afk in World of Warcraft, this has not happen for very long time.)
(Also, when I booted up the laptop, that is when the screenshot was taken and I am running the laptop on Battery Saving if that has anything to say)

 

Those temps are problematic, but the fan is running normally. The GPU fan is bios controlled, you have to read the fan speed form the EC rather than the GPU to get a meaningful reading. HWiNFO64 will do that for you. It's probably time to clean your heatsinks.

 

I have no idea how to clean anything on this G73Jh, it's pretty much my first laptop. I have used like AirCan alot before.

And I had this laptop for 2 years now, first year I went thru hell of random shutdowns but I fixed it by flashing bios on the GPU card and some other updates.

But I made a screenshot from SpeedFan, maybe it show something more meaningful?

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/1066/speedfank.png

Okey, I downloaded the HWiNFO64, here is a screenshot of the .. stuff?
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/5254/hwinfo64.png

 

Here's a screenshot of GPU-Z and HWiNFO64, check the graph for the fan speed as well as the fan speed in GPU-Z, it illustrates what i mean pretty well in regards to the fan readings:

That speedfan SS doesn't tel me anything more aside that again, your GPU temps are too high.

How to clean your G73 without disassembling it: G73 clean out - YouTube. If you haven't used an air can in a couple of months, time to do so again.

 

Hmm, do you think if I got myself the ASUS G75VW I would have a bit more ease with heat and stuff? :\

 

I'm playing WOW now and my GPU is 101C, how is that possible?

 

Dusty heatsink or bad thermal paste. There is nothing wrong with the hardware itself.

Also, a G75 will fix the problem in the sense that the heatsinks will be clean on a brand new notebook and that the thermal paste will be good (if thermal paste is the problem and not dusty heatsinks), but if you don't blow canned air through the heatsinks every few months, you'll end up with an overheating laptop yet again.

 

Becareful letting it get that high. Especially when 80 c is the highest you want on a gpu. You most likely have dust buildup in the fan motor slowing it down. Now how are your cpu temps? I always have more dust in my cpu fan when I clean mine out.

 

In the case of the MR5870, even 95C is fine, it's rated to operate up to ~110C.

 

Does the GPU have a protection mechanism for high heat? Let's say it reaches 105 and throttles the frequency down to 400 from 700?

 

AT 110C or 115C (i don't remember which) it will auto shutdown to prevent damage, nVidia throttles, AMD just shuts down.