Best test for overheating?

Hi,
I RMA'ed my G73 this week due to over heating every time I run a game. When I get my laptop back I was wondering what software would best suited to test GPU overheating. Also has anyone had the RMA department successfully fix the over heating problem. My G73 ran fine for the last 4-5 months and then one day it just started shutting down due to over heating after 2-5mins of gaming with almost any game. Ambient temp is 21-23C (at home) I dust ports and vacuum vents weekly if not more often.

Any answers are helpful thanks,
4u2nvinmtl

 

furmark

 

OCCT is actually more stressful that furmark. But furmark temps are about what SC2 will do, and OCCT is unrealistic...

 

Thanks Lord Neno and DCx. I did run Furmark before RMAing it but it over heated so fast that i thought furmark was bad point of reference. I'll try it again when i get my G73 back from the Canadian Asus RMA. I hope its better than what I've been reading

 

Technically, Furmark. In pretty much all cases, a repaste has fixed really high temperatures. In fact Chastity's repaste allows her to run Furmark for as long as she wants without going over 85 (I know, probably wrong number, my point is that your GPU stays relatively cool). So the only true way to tell that your GPU is invulnerable to overheating (that I know of) is Furmark.

 

I'm getting 108 C Max on Furmark, how bad is that >_>;; Should I consider repasting? Would it void my warranty if I do?

 

I'm getting 108C too with 1 hour Furmark

 

It depends on a lot of things - ambient temperature, thermal paste ...

 

I personally do not like triple digit temps, so if you are getting that, then I would consider a paste job.

I could probably make some decent pocket money doing G73 paste jobs. I'd only have to invest in about 4 keyboards just in case.

 

After repaste with ICD7 I ran Furmark for 90 minutes without going over 80C. GPU temperature cycles between 79C and 80C with fan speed with Furmark running in Xtreme burning mode. Before repaste, I would stop Furmark after about 10 minutes and reaching 105C. Just didn't seem right to run the GPU that HOT.

 

Yeah Chastity that would be a good idea!

Well if I get it back from RMA and I still have the problem running Furmark I'll give it a shot and re-paste it. I've seen some videos and it looks a lil tedious but not so hard. I built a few gaming towers but never bothered to open up my laptops for much more than to add RAM or HD's.

Thanks again for the fast and useful responses. Much better than the phone support at Asus where they didn't even do one step of trouble shooting. I told them "i think it might be over heating" and they gave me a RMA number. Before sending it off I wanted to be sure that my assumption was correct. Thats when I ran Furmark and it shut off in like 2mins maybe less (hit 110c). So off it went to RMA. I hope I get it back in a week and not a month like some people.

 

Does Furmark tell you the temps or do you need another program for that?

 

Furmark will show you the GPU temp as it runs. I also run CPUID's Hardware Monitor while it is running so that I can watch the cpu temp.