G73 overheat help

I've attempted to find a quick answer in the hundreds of pages of G73 posts, but it was to no avail. So here we go.

My G73 used to work great with no heat issues. Now however, after about 5 minutes of BC2, it overheats and shuts down. I downloaded a CPU and GPU temp gauge. Im no expert at any of this, but the CPU temps seem reasonable, idle at about 55 and go up during gaming to about 70. But the GPU is idle at 70 and shoots to 100 within a few minutes of gaming.

After reading some posts, I ran furmark. GPU hit 100c in about 1 1/2 minutes. I'm assuming this is why its shutting down. I called support and they just had me do the Fn Space bar deal to set it to high performance. I guess I had it on quiet office on accident. He seems confident it would fix the issue. It sped things up, but still cant play.

Any help would be great. Thank you guys for your time!

 

...you weren't playing in high performance? Regardless, it's time to open it and repaste or send it to be repasted.

 

yeah...not my proudest moment, but to be honest, I didnt even know the option was there.

I was worried about the repasting...its only had a few months of gameplay. Frustrating.

 

try cleaning vents with pressurized air first

 

That, if it hasn't been done already. We tend to assume people already tried that since we would have so sometimes we forget to ask . Anyways, if you need to repaste, read the newb's guide to repasting along with Chastity's final thoughts on repaste. Watch the BTOTech video and you should be fine.

 

If you can't do it yourself, find a local ASP and have them do it. Bring some ICD7 and hard cider for the occasion.

 

Don't forget to give them cider after they do it, not before .

 

yeah you can reduce your temps a lot just cleaning the vents. you could spend 5 minutes to reduce your temps by 20-30, or you can spend 1-2 hours repasting and it wont even help if your problem was the vents anyway