Chastity's Repaste Experience

Awesome results there, I guess you got the coolest results of us all!
So ill say, in name of the intire Notebookreview forum that as of today;
U'r a cool chick !

ps; are you usin a cooler? laptop elevated or somethin? anythin to resolve this mystery .

 

That's it, after seeing Chastity's 80c i'm going to ICD7 mine. I bought it awhile back to use on my 8800GT desktop card that was overheating immensely and it worked wonders. Then I used some on my 8600GT when I put my Zalman fan on it for the HTPC rig. Now it's time for ICD7's next challenge.

Plus, I want to be in the cool kids club.

 

I max at 83C with stock paste job.

 

No mystery to resolve, it has to do with her ambient temps on top of the paste job she did.

 

Hm. Might have been a little too sparse with the ICD7, but I went from 102c (OC 800/1100) max in furmark @ 20 mins, to 93c max, same OC. I think I'll have to repaste again or possibly give it some time to cure.

 

She keeps forgetting to mention she lives in an Igloo ...

Her temps are unrivaled on pretty much every 5870 i have owned or come across..

 

She did hit 81.. At the same settings on a cool day I hit max 85C with my first 5870m that could overclock that high.

 

wow..overclocked to 800/1100 and on furmark and still max at 83C with stock paste....that would be like in the artics for my rig.......Whats ur ambient temps....

 

Hello.
I have my G73 just one week.

My Max temps in game is about 95-97º (Crysis,Bad Company 2, Stacraft 2)

In Furmark stoped the test when arrive to 106º (and up..)

Just is possible reduce this temps whit repaste??
I need open all the g73 for repaste??
Any FAQ??

 

You can take a look at "Chastity's Repaste Experience" thread for some info, plus there are a couple more threads about repasting. You'll see a link for the BTOTech video on opening the G73JH. Follow it and take your time.

 

Whoa, where IS that thread?

 

OK, so I went circular with a reference. At least he shouldn't have trouble reading the back pages.

 

and here I thought you were making a funny. oh well, still funny

 

Hmm she's not the only one. Ken actually has the lowest I've seen, I think his office might be a gigantic freezer. Anyways, after an hour, my highest temp was 81C but it fluctuates between 79/80C mostly.

I used OCZ Freeze Extreme.

 

Ok, I bought some IC Diamond #7 so I can repaste once I get my G73 back from RMA. The stuff came in the mail yesterday, but the amount in the syringe is so small, did they send me the right amount? Does this look like 1.5 grams? I know CCs from medicine pretty well but grams depend on the density. So my questions is, does this look like the right amount? The pen point is pointing to where the end of the stopper on the syringe is. I guess if I am only supposed to apply a pea sized amount then even this tiny amount is enough.

 

That's the amount I have in my syringe also. It's really only enough for about 5 applications.

But the ICD 7 is supposed to be durable and long lasting. So one application should last until you buy another notebook.

 

Thank you.

 

Yeah those tubes are surely misleading .. I remember my first tube i thought wow this should last awhile till i peeled back the label..

Its good stuff though so its hard to complain ..

 

Chastity,

Thanks for being so big on the IC Diamond. I've repasted, (and thanks to Gorwell done no damage to my G73), and how I am Furmarking at 83-84c. Will post pics soon.

Thanks a bunch.

 

So, I am waiting for my paste top arrive in the mail. While I wait for that, I have a question. Do you guys recommend changing the thermal pad while I I have the laptop opened? If so, anyone mind linking me to one that they purchased and are happy with?

Also, on the topic of cooling, does a cooling pad really help the G73 at all?

 

I left my pads alone, since they looked to be in good condition, and placed well.

As for a cooler, they don't help much unless you take the bottom panel off and blow hard in there. Otherwise, the built-in cooler is excellent, quiet, and only needs to be cleaned if you use it in a dusty place.

 

Hi, I've just registered although I've been reading these forums pretty much everyday since I bought my G73 from BB in June. After many posts on temperatures and such I decided to download HWmonitor and realised that after about an hour of SC2 straight into about an hour of Black Ops my gpu was hitting 95C. Now it is impossible for me to RMA because of where I live and situations and I'm not extremely experienced but can follow instructions very well...have watched every dis-assembly video and will have it up but at this 95C mark is it needed to re-paste; will it damage the GPU at some point? I will be dusting the fans on Sunday to see if there will be any positive result. I have a targus cooling pad but its pretty warm here in the Caribbean so I'd appreciate any input on this pretty "normal" situation for the G73. The most that has been done is I updated BIOS a while ago to 209 and updated CCC to 10.8 because i was getting crashes in borderlands so any suggestion to software changes to be made/repaste need would be appreciated, thx.

 

You didn't mention if you updated the video BIOS. If not, please do so.

 

I downloaded the package that Hellcry linked in the "All the G73JH Problems and solutions here!" page in step to to solve the GSOD so i guess that had the vbios in it, whichever version it was

 

You should upgrade to 211 bios also. It will increase you fan rpms which will lower your temps. Mine went from 106c to 91c due to the 211 bios. Repasting took me from 91c to 83c. If you want more info on repasting read the link in my signature. You may feel more confident in repasting after you have more information. Hope this helps.

 

Oh My God.......Really ?? We NEED TO SPEAK FELLOW TRINI !! (Check my profile for info)

 

Where to begin...
A week ago, I decided to repaste my mother's old Asus A6m(cheapest one several years ago) because of enormous noise, worse then my g73jh in load. I knew the laptop, so it wasn't a big deal for me to get to the CPU. I repasted, temperatures dropped by 18C and the old laptop became as quiet as never before. BTW, I used Arctic MX3, as it was the only one available in local shop .

To the point. I posses a unique talent to break anything I touch, what I proved several months ago, when I broke my G73jh within 10 minutes after delivery boy left. Nevertheless, today I've had some free time and enough confidence. I had some problems while disassembling as I was way too scared to remove that cover behind the LCD you have to pull. The second problem was that I expected this paste to be somehow more liquid , so you can imagine my hands and those chips when I tried to spread it using my credit card . Here are the results:

Info:
Notebook: G73JH - Some Central European version - BR, 8GB, FullHD
Test: Furmark: 1024x768, Stability, Xtreme Burning, 8x MSAA
Paste: Arctic MX3
Repasted: GPU, CPU
Method: tapping a small 4mm ball of paste with a finger until it was all over the CPU/GPU

Results:
Load GPU: 105C to 83C
Idle GPU: 73C to 55C
Load CPU: 99C to 85C
Idle GPU: 59C to 51C
+I haven't broken anything
+my front left USB have started working
+my keyboard's corner doesn't jump out anymore
+my screen is finally aligned with the rest of laptop

I think it was worth the risk and I want to apologize for every single grammatical mistake.
BTW, is 800Mhz working for anybody? I always get artifacts on frequencies that high.

 

800 works for me, but it gets toasty.

How did you test load temps? And what program did you use to get those temp readings?

 

DCx: I used Furmark(details in first post) and I used Hwmonitor to get the temps.

 

I did another repaste with G73JH and this time I put some IC Diamon on vRAM, the result is pretty good :

 

Full screen or windowed? Seems to make a 3-4 degree difference here.
Good to know about the temp monitoring program.

 

You're +10C on MemIO. Remind me how this is a good thing?

 

It dropped 5*C on this unit.

 

After doing a thorough readthrough of this thread, it appears that after a repaste, having a 90-95 degree MemIO (Tss1) and 87-90 Core temp (Tss0) is what most people experience after a proper repaste.

Yes, Chastity has crazy low temps. So do one or two other people, but generally speaking ... 90 core +/- 5c in furmark is your target.

Newer units, newer card revisions will be cooler, as well.

 

Regarding BIOS updates; I want to install the 211 BIOS in order to reduce temps, but how difficult is this to do, and what risk does it pose to the computer? The ASUS tech I spoke to seemed to think that all I needed to do to update the BIOS to 211 was run a program and open a file, but everything I've found online seems to indicate that it's much more complicated than that.

I've plenty of experience with using computers, but nothing very intensive (i.e. basic day to day use); is performing a BIOS update to 211 within the realm of possibility for someone of my level of knowledge?

 

Using the WinFlash utility it pretty much IS that simple, EXCEPT...

Many people think (and statistics may show, if we had them) that there's more likelihood of the flash failing when using the WinFlash utility, which could cause the machine to be unbootable (bricked) requiring RMA to be fixed.

The EZFlash utility built in to the BIOS setup is generally considered a safer way to flash. Copy the extracted BIOS file to a USB flash drive, reboot and enter into the BIOS setup, and run the EZFlash utility from there to flash to the BIOS on the flash drive.

 

What is the likelihood of the flash failing either way? I don't want to risk doing any damage to a $1500 laptop as I'm not very knowledgeable, and I can't really afford to have to RMA at the moment because I need use of the laptop for my college classes.

 

Quite low. Just don't force the flash, if it isn't recognized. You'll have plenty of warning.

 

Here is my temps on stock paste untouched etc.. These are the lowest i have seen on any JH i have owned with stock paste..

 

Guess I'll go for it, then; BIOS 211 does reduce temps without making the fans too much noisier, right?

 

It does raise the fan noise, because they turn on sooner. But they don't turn on to "high", and it keeps the chip from getting so hot that the fans have to go to high.

So in the end, you'll notice the fans turn on more often, but don't ramp up to full nearly so much.

 

If you are going to flash, may as well do 213.

 

I repasted today and have the following observations. Pre paste my no load GPU temp had gradually increased to 85C, amazing. Post-paste it's holding 60C. Also, there was a gigantic dust bunny on the inside of the fan on the GPU side which must of shut down air flow. That's the good news. I broke off the connector terminal "the fragile one" on the motherboard behind the keyboard. Strangely, it's has no effect on the operation of the lap top. What is its purpose?

 

If you havn't noticed, I'm not going to tell you ... because if you havn't noticed, it doesn't matter at all. And if I tell you, it'll constantly bother you - EVEN though you wouldn't have known if I didn't tell you.

 

yea, I think its the touch pad, but I don't use it, so no harm no foul, if that's not it then please don't tell me. I'm thinking they should add a removable lint filter to these laptops (like a clothes dyer), I can't believe how much was jammed in there.

 

Well, I'll start off by saying I got the G73jh BB Edition when it first came out. I used it originally for about two months before the audio stopped,
I started getting GSODs/and BSODs, and eventually it would no longer boot. For the longest time I thought the BSODs were cause of a failed
motherboard. Its kind of sad really. Im a rather busy/neglectful person and didn't worry about the lappy for about 3-4 months and just let it sit
on the shelf. I have tons of comps and other laptops so I didn't really bother with it since I had my Clevo on hand, well not until my clevo got stolen : /

I moped and used a spare netbook I had for two weeks. I finally got the urge to look at my newish old G73. Out of all things I did to try to fix it
- from updating bios to reinstalling drivers to registry sweeps. I never reinstalled windows *facepalm* Surely enough that was the fix. I noticed,
despite the fact that I got it working my gpu temps were still incredibly high. I found a dis-assembly vid and started at it. When I finally got to the
whole core of the thing, I noticed there was hardly any thermal paste there and it was all clumped to one side. I was obviously going to redo the
pasting with some trusty Silver 5, but before I did, I lapped the heatsink and then repasted. My idle is almost identical to Chastity's. Mine starts
off at a cool 48, and eventually warms to about 50c after a while. On default and same clocks my furmark never goes above 79. My ambient temp
is the same as well. I'm very happy with my results and wish I that I had taken pics cause it feels like I just got a new lappy!

 

@Jonttu - You get the Run-on Award Paragraphs are your friend

 

It could of been worse. At least he used punctuation.

 

I call for verse. Screw paragraphs, let's hear it in verse.

 

Hi, all.

I've been watching the disassembly vid on youtube and have a question for the people who've repasted their G73.
Is it neccessary to do everything the guy in the vid did or I can just ignore taking out the optical drive?
Given if I do the repasting on the GPU, how much extra effort needed to do the CPU as well?

Thanks