G73 Heathly Temps? (Help Please)

Hello,

I own a G73 Best Buy Version Laptop. I have owned it for 6 months but the laptop is about a year old. I recently started to moniter the temperatures of my GPU and CPU and was just wondering what temps are considered "normal"?
I use HWinfo to monitor my temps.

At Idle, my CPU temps are averaging around 58*C
The GPU is listed with 4 factors and I'm not exactly sure what they are.
at Idle the temps are as follows,
GPU Thermal Diode 74*C
GPU TS0 66*C
GPU Ts1 74*C
GPU TS2 69*C

Already I am worried that these temperatures are much higher than they should be. They even get more alarming after gaming. I will play skyrim for about 30mins and the CPU max will spike to almost 100*C.

The max for my GPU, the Thermal Diode reached a max of 105*C!! That just seems insanely too high and dangerous. The other readings for the GPU are around 85/95*C after gaming.

These temps seem alarming, but I was just wondering some feedback. Should I RMA, do a re-paste? That really scares me.

Thanks!!

P.S. On a completely different note, I am still suffering from the horrible screeching noise from my speakers. It lasts about 10seconds will only go away if I put my lappy to sleep. Any solutions for this? I have tried various drivers to no avail.

Thanks Again

 

Hi there,

Ok firstly your temps are too high but the common fix is to use compressed air into the vents at the rear, short sharp bursts of air will shift any blockages and this has been proven to reduce temps anywhere upto 20oC. If it drops below 90-95oc you dont need to repaste. Make sure the laptop is off and the fans are not moving and do not hold the air down or you could damage the fan magnets.

The screeching sound is common, some think its a software and some think its a hardware problem when I had my JH it seemed to be a heat problem once I ended the load on the GPU and it began to drop the temperature back down it would let out an awful howling sound for about 10 seconds then stop. After a repaste this was fixed however so I still believe mine was temperature related.

 

My laptop had the screechy noise problem and I RMAed it last year to get it fixed. They replaced a lot of hardware and the computer has never done it again. They replaced the motherboard, sound board, and the palm rest. The palm rest was for the missed keystroke issue. The motherboard and sound board was for the screechy noise problem. The whole sound board thing really put a damper on last year's holiday season. It took five weeks to get the laptop back because that board was backordered for weeks.

The repaste is something the average, mechanically inclined person can perform if you are careful. However, since you have the sound problem too, I would recommend RMA if you can still do that. If it's completely out of warranty, I would repaste and live with the other issue.

If you search the forums, there was a sound preprocessing utility that you could install on your laptop that I am pretty sure eliminates the screechy thing. I did not like it. I didn't like having to run yet another utility for sound that had 5000 things that had to be set but it did completely eliminate the crazy noise problem. I don't recall it ever making that noise while I was running the utility. It's been eighteen months and I don't remember the name of the utility.

Try and see if you can RMA first. If you can't, Dallers or I or a dozen others around here can help walk you through a repaste. Many of us have done it.

 

Thanks for the Help! I will make a quick stop to Walmart and pick up some compressed air. Seems like the simple solution, and hopefully it will help the screeching sound issue. So if I used compressed air, temps, both idle, and load should decrease? I also notice that after having the laptop on for a couple hours browsing or gaming, I can rub my palm across the keyboard and the right side of the keyboard by the power button feels MUCH warmer than the left side of the keyboard. Not sure what this is, just a note.

An RMA is impossible, as my lappy is out of warranty 4 months ago.

Jody, I really hope that you remembered that program, the issue is extremely annoying!!! Dallers do you know anything about the sound preprocessing utility?

 

Sorry fella never heard of it but if it works try it, mine was fixed by a repaste as it dropped my temps below 80oC. Compressed air is a quick easy cheap fix for the temps problem, might even sort out of the heat issue that might be affecting your sound.

 

Here's the thread I was referencing: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/502486-g73-static.html

The utility is mentioned in the thirteenth post of that thread.

I don't really remember if it solved my problem or not. I did give up on it and send it in for repair eventually. Another user in a very short thread said that his would stop doing it after the GPU cooled down. Maybe you'll get lucky and it will go away after fan cleaning and/or repaste.

 

To repaste the cpu or gpu you would need to take the entire laptop apart. This model is not the easiest to take apart. In all my years this Asus I would say has been one of the top ones. But good luck.

 

I had the screeching noise at one time also. An audio driver update fixed it.

 

Do you remember specifically which driver it was? Link?


@Jody
Thanks for that link. Hopefully I can get the issue fixed. I will post back here when I try it
Thanks!!

 

Realtek v2.6x should do the trick.

@Dallers, sorry to hear about your G73 man. You could get a m17x to replace it if you have the dough though .

 

Cheers bud yeah if i dont get my Asus back might try Alienware you always hate the one you love I always wanted the R2 back in the day with the duel 5870m's it looked awesome.

Might just get an M14x R2 and wait for the ivy if not.

 

That sucks, Dallers. I didn't notice that in your sig, man. I hope they find the dirtbag to stole your rig.

It makes me want to google up some of those theft recovery solutions and see if there's something I can load on my laptop to track it down if it ever gets ripped off.

 

I installed the Realtek 2.66 Driver ( The newest one ), and the problem still persists...hopefully the compressed air trick will work?

 

The Compressed air trick worked for me. Knocked out a bunch of dust bunnies and a big dust cloud. Idles dropped from ~64 to ~54 and load temperatures dropped from ~100 to ~74-78

 

That's great! I never did catch on as to whether you always had the sound problem or if that was a recent development? Did that go away too? If so perhaps it only occurs when the GPU gets too hot.

 

Okay so I bought some compressed air. Just curious as to what exactly I should be spraying? Can I just spray into the vents at the back of the laptop? Or do I need to take apart some of the laptop. I am not very confident in taking this machine apart, but if It's minor I could prolly do it.

Also, before I clean out the vents, Im still not sure which temp is the overall GPU temp, becuase there are 4 parts of the GPU listed and they are all at various Temps, which one should I monitor the most. Currently at idle they are at...
GPU Thermal Diode 73C
GPU TS0 65C
GPU Ts1 70C
GPU TS2 69*C
Which Factor should I be focusing on? Thermal Diode?

 

All of them actually, that is mightily high for idle temps, i get lower than that in a room at 26C ambient temp.

 

OK Thanks!! Still wondering about how I should be cleaning my laptop with compressed air...any ideas?

 

Depending on how confident you feel about it, you can either flip the laptop, open the bottom panel then blow through the heatsinks or do a partial disassembly to really get to the fans and heatsinks.

 

did it cause a BSOD as well? I used to get some sort of BSOD or screen crashes cause of the audio driver and even cause of the wifi driver.

 

unlike apple and other notebook makers, asus make this one a very easy to open up system. you can get at all the hardware with very little ease. You just need the write tools and by all means take your time, you get no reward for being fast.

 

I just used compressed air trick on my vents and through the access panel. So far temps are idling around 53oC!! Much better than before. I am about to test the temps under load by playing some Skyrim!

 

Skyrim seems to really make the fans kick in. I had to do the same thing this week. My temps seem good but the fan noise was getting on my nerves. but that's my screwed up hearing. noise really really gets to me. one of the reasons I got this note book was it's quiet. or was tell I undated the bios to 213.

One thing about fans if you don't get the dust off of them on a regular basis the dust builds up over time and can make the fans start to make more noise then they normally do. over time this will never go away, even if you blow duster at the fans. so You have to do it regularly if you want them to keep quiet and in good working order. I've seen this happen with power supply's too. once they start making noise you can never get them to stop, with out replacing them.