Question for G73 owners regarding overheating

Has anyone here gone like, over 6 months without having to repaste or send their laptop in?

I got mine about March 15th, 2011 and haven't had any overheating issues, and I don't always play games every day on it, but I'm just trying to get an idea for how long I'll be good with it before it starts overheating, etc.

I suppose it also depends on how much I play, what I play, and for how long.

But generally, how long do these go for before they start acting up?

 

Took 9 months for my paste to degrade, you shouldn't get degraded paste unless you're unlucky like some of us. My friend's G73 is still working perfectly and he bought it a year ago like me.

 

I got mine in October and I am still on stock paste with no overheating.

 

I got mine in July, I don't use it every day, but I do play 4 hour stints on max settings of many high-ressource games.
No overheating here.
I do think I'll have to repaste one day, but not yet.

btw: I clean the vents regularly.

 

Since 10/10. No repaste. Ran alot of my oldies but goodie games at first, had a blast at the top settings and wicked load times. First sign of a problem
was Mass Effect 2, started to see freezes and figured it to be software related.

Then Crtsis 2 was banging out after a short duration, found this site (Lots of good info Thanks to all who help) and downloaded HWINFO32 and found the GPU hitting 114C.

Bought the paste and was geared to break down the unit.

When running the sensor readings noticed the GPU fan was not ramping up past 30%. Updated the bios and vbios (209->211) and abracadabra full speed BTU slinging GPU fan.

Temps on Crysis 2 stay mid to low 90'c full settings. Dead Space 2 stays so low I dont even check anymore.

Just my 2 cents.


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I brought my G73jh in sept 2010 and never had overheating probs or repasted.

 

Not all JH's have the problem of overheating and remember that some may not even know unless they check their temps with HWINFO32 because the actual temperature shutdown does not kick in until around 114oC. I was hitting thermal shutdown when I first got mine and it would climb easily to 111oC before switching itself off. I now run 31oC cooler after several attempts to decrease this finally settling on a TIM so in my experience repasting is what I personally recommend and do this with any laptop I get that is out of warranty or refurbed. But others have not seen the same results.

It is a good idea to make sure you keep the airflow clear and clean though and many people have had fantastic results from just blowing compressed air into the fan vents on a regular basis to keep the airflow clean and the heatsink dust free.

Also remember that the maximum temps are normally only reached when benchmarking so if you are not looking to stress it to the limits (Like me ) you shouldn't be reaching max temp, it is however good to check the temps and get them running as low as possible if you want your laptop to run for a long period of time without having problems or hardware failure. The 5870M is a hot chip and made to run hot but that does not excuse repasting and cleaning is not a good idea because it is especially if it drops your max temps below 90oC.

 

I really wonder if the G53SW is just a lot better at staying cooler than the G73 models, because I have been so unbelievably and incredibly impressed with the temps on mine. I don't do a lot of *seriously* intensive gaming, but I do run SC2 at max settings, been playing some GTA4 and Bioshock 2 and a little Crysis 2 even, all at 1080p and quite high settings, sometimes for a few hours in a row. And honestly, I don't think the GPU has ever even cracked 85c. If that. The palmrest always stays perfectly cool, and the keyboard just gets a bit warm. Nothing on the notebook is EVER all that hot to the touch, unless something is positioned directly in front of the vents in back - whatever is there would definitely got hot, because there's certainly a good deal of heat coming out of there.

Part of me thinks it has to do with just how freaking *enormous* those vents are in relation to the size of the notebook - they're truly huge. And the G53SW itself isn't much smaller than the G73 models in terms of actual physical size. But it still seems odd. Maybe Asus just made some adjustments in construction, since the G53SW is definitely the newest iteration of the G-series, more recent than the G73SW, even. I really dunno. I would be truly shocked if I had to send this in for warranty repair in the first year, barring some really weird accident or problem. I was even planning on buying a cooling pad before, but given how good this beast does on its own I don't even really have to, it seems!