Need help with my ASUS G60VX

I don't know much about computers so I don't know what is causing my problems and how I can find that out. Anyways, my laptop has started to become slower than usual, but not by much. I remember that someone recommended me to check the temperature of my cores and my graphics card. I didn't know how so I downloaded a program called Speedfan and on it, it showed that my GPU is at 73C, both cores at 47C, and something about Temp1 being 58C. When I play Black Ops or Medal of Honor, my temp for GPU goes to about 107C and my cores go to 70C-80C. I don't think that this is good. I have never messed with anything in this laptop. The moment I installed all the drivers I needed, I went straight to playing video games and everything was fine until I started playing these two games. Is there something wrong with my laptop?

 

Check your vents and make sure they aren't clogged with dust. Check to make sure your fan isn't making grinding noises, and that it is moving air out of the vents.

 

True that. Cleaning vents should help. Also get yourself a good cooler with active fans to move more air. If you do both of those and still hit those temps, it's time to contact support.

 

There is a pretty big circle on the bottom of my laptop. I don't know if that was supposed to be a vent or not but it seems to do nothing, no air is being blown out of it. I also have a vent on the side of my laptop. There are no grinding noises or anything. What should I use to clean my vents? What is a good cooler than I can use for my laptop?

 

THe "vent" on the bottom of the laptop is actually nothing, its just for looks, its completely solid, yikes! what you can do like many have done before, is mod the circle to actually be a intake vent.

But if you don'y want to do that use some canned air and blow out the dust from the side vent. You may want to open the bottom cover too so you can make sure the dust is getting out of the laptop and not right into your fan.

 

If I turn the circle on the bottom into an actual vent, will it still be good to use a cooling pad? Also, what is a good cooling pad to get for my laptop?

 

Yeah it will still be good to use a cooling pad because it will still introduce more air into the cooling system of the computer. And I don't really have a recomendation for a model, I don't use one currently for mine.

 

Its designed like that IIRC so that cooler air is drawn from elsewhere and blown out. That and it serves as a heatshield.

The canned air helps temps dramatically as its cooling the CPU and GPU heat pipes. Lastly, raise the laptop and put a fan directly under the left wrist palm. That is the position of GPU.

 

The "grill" used to be open, for the g50 series.

 

Sorry about reviving this thread..

Ok I just did a little research on my computer and realized that it's the white g51. I thought it was a g60vx because I saw that as my system model on my directx diagnostic tool.

Anyways, cleaning the vents greatly helped lower my GPU temp by 20C and my cores by 10C. The circle on the bottom of my laptop is completely closed. I opened my laptop to check it out and there was a black tape covering it. I removed about a third of the tape to see what's underneath and there was nothing, no holes, just the plastic of the back piece of my laptop. How can I turn it into a vent?

 

mine runs 57c just surfing....when i run 3dmark06,,,,78c -gpu temp

 

Drill some holes and cut the black part off

Doing this will decrease overall temperature by about 10c