I've just about had it with my G73JH

After almost a year I finally made time to redo the thermal compound on my CPU and GPU. Net result is basically nothing. I don't have logs from the temps before, but my CPU is around 65c at idle right now and GPU is at 80c at idle. I'm not bothering testing numbers under load because idle is what is driving me crazy -- these fans are loud as hell.

I'm frustrated and don't know what to do at this point. I have a desk fan blowing fresh air to the back of the laptop because if I don't, this POS randomly shuts itself down. Just looking for some tips.

 

Have you cleaned the vents? Are you sure you did the repasting properly? Bad repastes can have the opposite effects of what a good repaste should have.

 

The vents are clean, I'm fairly certain I did a good job with the paste (I've done it many times). The temps aren't any worse, just no where near what I'd expect.

 

I would say that you have a problem with the heatsink clearance. The stock pads that are used with the 5870M heatsink are as poor as the heatsink. They are too thick for the 0.5-1mm clearance from the die.

What I did was compress them when I first did my repaste before in the end getting fed up and replacing them with thinner pads. If you remove your heatsink I reckon you wont see the compound covering the entire die and there will be gaps and that is because of the pads raising the heatsink too high and the compound not conducting with it.

The CPU idle temp is high however did you use the horizontal pea methods? or are you using the speading/credit card trick to apply the compound. I would recommend trying again with the pea method if you are.

Also make sure you have the latest Vbios and BIOS.

 

You're doing it wrong.

 

That feel when you don't have a single problem with your JH.

 

Do you mean the pads that were on the GPU memory?

I did apply with the pea method.

 

Boredom. I feel like breaking mine just so I have something to fix.

Yup go back in and remove the GPU and CPU heatsink and see how much of the die is covered with compound if there are black gaps that mean the copper is not conducting with it and that section of the die will be running hot from lack of conductivity.

You can compress the pads if they are too thick causing the heatsink to sit too high, the stock ones were beefy buggers if I remember rightly. If there are gaps on the die use a bit more compound and if the sides of the CPU are not covered spread a horizontal line across the middle.

See my post here. http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...3570-g73-jh-jw-disassembly-repaste-guide.html

Things are not always successful first time round. Personally my 7th repaste was the best I have seen. Sadly have not been able to beat it.

 

I know that feel. Until I use the touchpad. Or try to play Witcher 2

 

The touchpad issue has been resolved. If you don't want to take your laptop apart to fix it, that's something you'll just have to deal with then. Plenty of people have written about how to resolve that issue.

Witcher 2 is not a G73jh problem and nothing wrong with your machine. Wicher 2 is just a very demanding game that probably could use some optimization that CD Projekt I doubt will do. But that's not the fault of your machine.

 

lmao so true.
Witcher 2 is stupidly demanding. Even on desktops. I just found that i can max the game at ultra (no ubersampling) at 1366*768 with my oc with FPS above 35 fps.
Its an rpg, and im happy with that. Screw 1080p lol. Anything else, i have my desktop for it.

 

Its the bandwidth with the Witcher 2 us 5870M 460M users are the last in a line of cards which hang around the 60gb/s mark the next card brought out above us were the 6990M and 580M Both can smash the 100gb/s mark and the 6990M doubles the 5870M at stock in Fillrates and bandwidth.

Sadly we have the make the most of what we have

 

Yup. Still they have could do better this time, althought the game is fantastic.
Those nice effects they are using in dx9 are just resource hoggers, dx11 would have been better.