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    G73JH A1 Heat

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Hnim, Dec 28, 2010.

  1. Hnim

    Hnim Notebook Guru

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    While playing Mass Effect for maybe 15 minutes my computer overheated and shut down. Now I am idling at 77 C and it's got me a bit worried. What should I do?
     
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    KuroLionheart Notebook Deity

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    Buy some ICD7, open her up, dust the hell out of everything, repaste, put back together. Your temps should be considerably cooler.
     
    KuroLionheart, Dec 28, 2010
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    Hnim Notebook Guru

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    That process makes me a bit... apprehensive. Could someone explain in detail how to do such a thing?

    Uh... please?
     
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    1st try and use an aircan on the vents. You can also open up the bottom and blow out the vents from there too, or at least blow out the interior. For repasting, you can read my sig link below for information.
     
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    karoom21 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I have heard that repasting voids the warranty, what about if you took it into an authorized shop or the like? also about how much would that run you?
     
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    I'd say somewhere around 30-80 depending on how many hours it takes them to take the thing apart and paste it. One thing I hate about notebooks is how most of them make accessing the heatsink almost impossible (without taking everything out). Toshiba wins in terms of accesibility for the heatsink (you just pop the bottom panel open and you can take the heatsink out and repaste)
     
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    Mine idles at 70C to 72C (without notebook cooling pads) at ambient temp of 29C to 30C. I'm thinking too of opening up my beast and repasting it with ICD 7 but too bad, no one's selling this paste here in the Philippines. I'm thinking of buying the ICD 7 that I've found on ebay which will be coming from either Australia or Canada. I'm hoping take the risks on repasting my GPU sometime this coming January. Good luck to me :)

    By the way, is there anyone here who have repasted their CPU with ICD 7? How did they do it considering there's a warranty sticker on one of the screws? :confused:
     
    JehutyZeroshift, Dec 29, 2010
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