Should I bother looking into repasting?

Well, my temps on Idle is usually 50-52, with browsing and doing a bunch of other stuff is usually 54-57 and gaming varies from 58-70, depending on the title of course but it usually hovers around the low 60's and high 60's for the really intensive gaming sessions. Should I look into repasting? It's been about 2 months since I bought the G73, I do remember my temps being lower back then, even being in the low 40's on idle but overall not much.

 

Those temperatures seam fine. I wouldnt bother doing it if thats the case since it seams you probably already have a good TIM application and repasting wont improve it much.

 

Assuming you're talking about your GPU temps, I would definitely NOT crack the beast open to repaste. You are getting stellar temps for GPU and I almost don't believe you. ;D

All said and done, there's too many new problems you could introduce in the process, as it is a very delicate matter. Make sure those are your GPU temps and not CPU though, as that sounds more in the CPU ballpark. If that's truely your GPU temps, you have a kickass machine and are working in Antarctica or something. Grats and stay warm.

 

Yes those are my GPU temps, I always use my laptop in a cool room and I keep it elevated (Dunno how much that helps really).

 

You're golden then, leave it alone and enjoy! Might want to watch out for other g73 owners looking to pull a ninja-swap on you as well...

 

Must have been assembled by elves If I'm in a cool room, then I get temps similar to that, so yeah, enjoy it!

 

On furmark I got the temps on my new GPU up to 97 thats with the extreme burn settings and everything, seems high to me no ?

my idle temps are around 59-60 ish

 

nm just 1 core on the GPU is hitting 97 the rest is 90, the one core is really high for some reason, still i was thinking of repasting myself, how much cooler would I expect the temps on a cooling pad?

 

Those temps are more than acceptable by Asus/ATI standards

Those are average/decent by G73 standards

Those are unacceptable by some peoples' standards

Take your pick.

 

haha thanks, what you think i should do, repaste the sucker, seems to be stable, they shipped it back with a new gpu, im buying a cooling pad you think that will help a bunch?

 

Personally, if you have no problems and your temps seem fine I wouldn't touch it. We've got plenty of "beta" testers in this community, give em a few more weeks of research before you wander into the frontier.

 

Those temps are pretty much what I get ( a bit lower) while playing Starcraft 2(high/ultra) on my G73. I haven't tested with more intensive games though, plus I'm in an aicronditioned room and use a cooling pad.

I wonder if I should look into repasting. When I go home to my very hot and humid country, I'm not sure if those temps will hold.

 

Guess I'll be leaving it alone for now. In a room that isn't cooled, my temps only go up a tiny bit so I guess mine is one of the few lucky ones. lol, thanks for the responses.

 

sorry for the noob question, but could someone please tell me the easiest way for checking GPU temps?
which is the best program? i just want to check my GPU temps while playing GTA4, just out of curiousity, because i've been playing GTA4 for a week now and i've never had any crashes, except for the occasional 10.7 driver instability (1-second black-sceen freezings).
i also bought my G73 2 months ago, seems like we hit a good GPU batch ;]

 

CPUIDs HWmonitor seems pretty good. it can log temps to a text file too and shows all the Temps in one screen

 

So can GPU-Z. GPU Observer makes a great temp gadget. Plus I <3 HWINFO.

 

after looking at the paste job the tech did on mine, I would. However, I noticed that the gpu die is so small that no matter how much paste is squirted on there, the heatsink plate just squeezes most of it out of the sides when clamped down. my temps in furmark were 95C even with that glob of paste on there.

 

My temps are getting higher and higher.

Idling at 58C now, with ambiance of probably 30-ish, as the room is stuffy and pretty hot. Bad air circulation too.

BC2 is giving about 86C max now, and GRID will drive it over 90 with the same ambiance temp now. Im in Australia, by the way, so, it's Spring now.

I hope it wont get thermal shut down when the ambiance temp reach 45C when it's summer. Im getting quite worried about that now.

Should i look into repasting now? Also, how did you guys get through ridiculously hot summers?

 

Heh ye old G50 runs hot in GRID with settings maxed at native res. Never had it shut down though but 90's happen all the time.

Hot summer? uh AC lol. My Cooler gives a 5C drop at best and never got to see the real benefit of the repaste because I had changed the CPU to something hotter.

 

I dont have access to AC, though, so i think thats quite a big problem. :/ If im in Malaysia, i can pretty much get 24/7 AC to cool my laptop down to ambiance of 18C.

If my ambiance temp is around 25, GRID actually below 90s, with full HD res. Now, im concern about the thermo shut down, so i drop it to 1600x1080 res instead to prevent it to go above 90. I want to use this for the next 3 years, not having it died half way again like my M1530.

 

Not sure what it is on your laptop but the 9800M GS was 105 and dont bother with what the gpu bios says its inaccurate.

I wouldn't worry about the shut down as much as the temperature itself. Heat is a killer and cycling from cold to hot and back, which expands and contracts the materials isn't helping.

I have the low res 50 with 1366x768 and 720P is a res I would drop to on myne from time to time, but most games like Far Cry 2 get very annoyingly blocky around every group of 8 pixels its almost like looking at bad mpeg compression. Not sure if its the nvidia scaler or what.

If you can stand the lower res I would go for it.

 

I think the shutdown temp is 110 if im not mistaken, which is really high. And you would have to worry about heat damage unless you were running the GPU at 100 for whole day spurts, which im sure you don't do and your temps don't get that high. Maybe buy a cooling pad to help push cold air into the machine it might drop your temps a bit but their safe were they are from what I gather.

 

59-60 is awsome as for my computer g51j-3d i repasted it it went from
78C gpu idle
76c cpu idle

106C gpu throttled
85C cpu throttled

to

repasted
45-55C gpu idle
40-50c cpu idle

94C gpu throttled
60-70C cpu throttled

the gpu is still kicking my though..