Thermal paste for G73JH GPU

Using an air compressor is not suggested because of the reason you've mentioned, I was cleaning my earlier laptops by compressor and had no problem but I wasnt aware of the risk, I wouldnt risk it anymore.

Well there are good guides in the forum, I think the repaste will be the best option for you too. Good luck
Some of them :

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...um/527654-newbs-guide-repasting-your-g73.html

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asu...11600-my-repaste-experience-pics-success.html

http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/506044-chastitys-repaste-experience.html

 

Same in here in the Philippines. My temps are same as yours. Ambient temp here in my country ranges from 26 to 31 C. I think I should repaste my GPU soon but I'm hesitant to open up my G73 coz I'm not an expert in dissecting laptops. I don't want either to send this to the nearest Asus Service Center because Asus G73's aren't common here in my country and I'm hesitant that someone inexperienced would open up my precious G73. How I wish I could send this to Asus' Service Center on California I'm sure there's a lot of expert in there.

EDIT:

While letting HWiNFO32 running, when I've checked it, I noticed an odd result. I've reached a -1 C reading on my GPU Thermal Diode. Weird.

 

That's what I used too, and I'm satisfied with the result.
But the application method what I read is different from what you used, it needs to be spreaded using the applicator.

 

Yes, that method is good for CPU heatsink. With our GPU heatsink it's better to use small ball method, because of it's surface.(scratches and etc.) But if you lapped your gpu heatsink, spreading with applicator method will be fine.

 

Whew! I just repasted my G73JH-X1 after yet another safety shutdown. Using ICD7, my idle dropped from 73 to 51. I haven't run any benchmarks, but after 2 hours in SC2 it didn't even go over 75. I also noticed a TON of dustbunny buildup between the fans and heat sinks - I assume cleaning these out will be a regular maintenance item? My lappy was bought second hand about 6 months ago, and the manufacture date looks to be feb/2010. The factory paste job looked much like some of the pics posted in this thread; absolutely terrible.

Boo-boos:
1: I broke the speaker connector off the board (Even after the guy in the video made special mention of it's frailty). I suppose I will try to solder it back on, but not going to lose too much sleep over it seeing as I normally have headphones on anyway.

2: The keyboard bezel came loose from the tray upon removal. I looked around (briefly) and it doesn't appear that these keyboards are readily available - anyone know where I can find one just in case super glue doesn't fix it?

 

@Henningar The keyboard bezel should snap back into place with a few tabs. If not, you could glue it. But if you want a new keyboard here's a post I made earlier with some links: http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-gaming-notebook-forum/539232-g73jh-keyboard-help-spilled-liquid.html#post6953693

 

@ALLurGroceries: Thanks for the link, I couldn't find anything on ebay. The bezel won't snap in place because the "nipples" on the end of the anchor posts broke off. I am going to try and glue it whenever i take it back off to attempt a solder-job on the speaker connector, but if that doesn't work I'm not going to sweat $25 on a new KB.

Thanks again!

 

I saw online that Innovative Cooling has a new ceramic paste that costs less than their Diamond counterparts:

Innovation Cooling Perihelion Thermal Compound Review Overclockers Tech

 

Everyone says to not repaste as it voids the warranty, but as stated in Chastity's thread, if you get a professional "ASUS Notebook Authorized Service Provider" to do it then it is completely fine.
Although i do wonder where i can fine one of the providers and how much it would cost

 

ASUS Notebook Authorized Service Provider

Let's see how many times I can post this link

 

is there anything that could be done for the memory-temps? maybe better pads that the stock ones? or is it not that much important?

did anybody repaste with idle-temps 56-58°C? Or will a repaste do not decrease the temps anymore if they are that low?

 

What are your at-load temps? I know someone who repasted his idle 58 and now idles at 57, but his memIO temps are now within 5 degrees of his core, and although his max core went up from 86 to 91, his memIO now maxes at 94 instead of 106.

 

Im getting nearly 80° at load.
Ok, here is my intention:
Im running undervolted and underclocked in battery state with linux (Battery-State as default, even when on ac, @200/700mhz, trying to decrease that a little more). Im getting 46-48°C. So my G73 operates nearly silent - the fans do not run.. nearly. They just switch on once every 2 minutes for some moments. With repasting i want to get the last 2-3°C so that the fans do not run for a longer timeinterval.
I've read somewhere, that one guy made it run silent.

Im wondering if i
-got a "cool" chip
-or got a very well pasted notebook.

If i have a cool chip i might get my 2-3° to stay under the fan-switches-on temp by repasting. but if it is well pasted i wont achieve anything. So the question is: Is there a possibility that a well applied IC7 (i did that quite often, so i know how to apply paste) wont decrease the temps? I do not exactly know what asus used as pads. ive read that it might be a Shin-Etsu pad-thing?!? which cant be that crappy at all... or is it just the standart-feeling-like-wet-rubber-pad stuff?

And if someone asks why im buying that machine and do not want the power it has... hehe... im playing with Win7 (Dualboot) and in this OS the powerstates are set normally. I just do not need the power when im surfing the net or doing office stuff in my "office-OS". (Besides: Ive got it for 1111€ (207 model) from amazon. Christmas-offer )

Thanks for any suggestions

 

I didn't notice if you're got a JW or JH - your temps seem to be more a JW temp ... I saw your clocks, though, so I'm assuming JH. Anyways, that's quite low - what's your ambient temp, and which sensor are you using for your reading?

 

oh, sorry. i did not mention that. it is a JH!
Can you follow my thought? If we can say, that asus uses only bad-pads i think i can decrease the temp a bit... or did they change anything? see my previous post (Shin-Etsu?)

im using GPU-Z to read the temps in windows.
Linux says that "sensor 0" on the grapics card has 47° C at the moment (keep in mind: undervolted, underclocked @200/700mhz). gpu-z shows similar temps when i switch the profile to battery in windows.
Ambient is ~21°C.

I had 2 other G73JH. The first one had a broken touchpad. The second one GSODed quite often. And it had temps <100° on furmark.
Both had Idle-Temps higher than 65°C.
This one seems to be a cool one. Ive read, that they changed something.. another GPU revision?

Normally i would just open it up and try. but disassembling it takes time. So maybe there are people who can tell if i will succeed in decreasing the temp a little bit more so i runs silent.

 

Asus has a few revisions of cards. The newer ones tend to run cooler (c11 and greater) but don't take overclocks as well. Such is my experience, anyways.

Currently, I've got a c02 revision, and it idles at 51/54/51 on 405/1000 with 21 ambient. No change for me dropping it to 200/700 at idle

 

How will I know my revision version/number?

 

look on the card itself. You can see by popping off the bottom access panel, no disassembly required.

 

Lowering mem clocks will decrease temps a few degrees.
I'm using 125/100 and the fan stops at 43°C and starts at 46-47°C again (ratio 60:30). With NC3000 ratio is nearly 300:20.

 

did you lower the voltage as well? it is hard wired but you might set it a bit lower.
how did you change the clocks? i used rbe and changed the values for the battery state and set the batterystate as default, even if it is on AC. i can not imagine that this did not lower the temps at all.

so if the chip is cooler at all because it is a newer revision then there should be an effect when i repaste, right?

what are the differences between the revisions? except the overclocking... im fine with the default clocks in power mode. for now it is enough to play the games i play

 

ATI GPU Clock tool, and no, I didn't change the voltage.

 

Just repasted with AS5 and I have the same temps as before! YAY!

 

Which were?

I just did AS5 last night. (Impatient and didn't feel like waiting till my tube of ICD7 arrived).

Teardown was a piece of cake. Heck the keyboard was weird to do but came out fine.

Temps before the repaste max. (Furmark)

GPU 1 = 89C
GPU 2 = 106.5C
GPU 3 = 95C

Post Repaste, no cure time yet.

GPU 1 = 74C
GPU 2 = 87.5C
GPu 3 = 81C


I noticed while playing EVE Online this last weekend that the fans were running a bit harder than usual and took a look at the temps. GPU was spitting out about 91C in CCC and didn't think to check GPU-Z or whatnot that shows the other 2 temps. But no doubt GPU 2 was probably hitting into the 100's because while playing a while in it did a quick BSOD (Brown screen of death) and then came back fine but the mouse cursor was all garbled. Turning off HDR helped a bit and cooled her down enough to play normal but I figured it was time to take a look at all this repaste business.

Now EVE Doesn't push the GPU past 79.5 on GPU 2.

 

Before
GPU 1 = 78
GPU 2 = 91
GPU 3 = 83

after

GPU 1 = 76
GPU 2 = 93
GPU 3 = 81

Well their worse to be honest, well the core is where the paste was placed, but im buying IC Diamond and im going to use that, i had this AS5 for a good amount of time laying around.

 

I am still trying to figure this out a little. Where exactly are the locations on the card for the 3 temps? Isn't 1 and 3 both going to be on the GPU core itself while GPU 2 is the little arm off the heatsync on the VRM's (which will get hotter than the core)?

If that is the case how did your thermal pads look as far as condition and placement? I replaced all of mine to do a better contact job since the VRM one was partly off the VRM itself and the memory ones could have been better too.

All in all your temps really were not that bad to begin with and even after, are not horrible. Asside from GPU 2 the others are in line with mine now.

 

Where did you buy your pads for the VRAM from, and i think GPU 2 is the core. Anyhow I mistakenly ripped the lower VRam pad area and havnt been able to find anywhere to buy these

 

I just re applied the stock ones. They were fine just needed some adjustment. If you need replacement I was eyeballing the 1mm VGA Block pads on frozencpu.com

 

Im guessing their 1mm in height

 

This one? Fujipoly Premium Thermal Pad - VGA Block - 60 x 50 x 1.0 - Thermal Conductivity 6.0 W/mK - FrozenCPU.com

 

Thats the one I was looking at.

 

Ah alright, I just want to make sure im not going to do damage with there being a little hole, mine were put on horribly too, before the repaste the pads were coming out of the side of the heatsink

 

Well they will squish out, but they should cover the whole part they are supposed to cover and then have a little squish out.

This pad will be just a pad, you will have to cut it to fit. Tell us how it turns out (with pics perhaps) as I was curious to get this but turned out not to need it. (or the keyboard).

 

Only reason why I stayed away from AS5 was due to it degrading over time. Your temps could also be attributed to application too.

 

Those were both from furmark, in COD BO i get 83 - 82 and such but what i read around and especially with chasity she managed to get hers cooled enough with IC7 to the point where she wound max at 78C and idle at i believe 49C, which is outstanding, from what I see the repaste possible did worse then better seeing as how it was old paste (got it back in July or so) and that my temps are slighty higher

 

I thought the GPU 2 and 3 were all on the GPU as well ...

 

All thermal sensors are inside the gpu die.

 

has anybody made the g73 run silent?

 

/me raises hand With my new clock settings, temps drop to 38-45C when on battery.

 

ehm...how did you achieve 38C, if the fan stops at 43C?
On cold boot i also start at low 30s.

 

it's dependent on ambient temps. usually idles at the 42-45 mark, but it does drop occasionally to the high 30's.

 

Is the fan running at these temps? BIOS 211?
I have downgraded to BIOS 209 because of less fan activity.
It stops the gpu fan while temp drops to 43C. Temps will increase from there only.

Btw.:
Any knowledge about a BIOS 213???
Index of /G73

 

new bios out?!

 

chastity, what temps did you have with stock paste and firmware?

 

I can vouch for stock firmware and gpu temps. On the 206 bios and stock gpu drivers I was hitting 59-65C idle and 75-88C gaming. My temps were better but the paste was degrading fast because I didn't see temps hitting 83C+ until after 6 months. After updating to the latest bios my idle was better but the load temps did not get any better.

After repasting my idle sits between 45-51C and loads are between 60-74C. The 74C temps are for heavy duty games like Starcraft2. For games like WoW it hovers between 60C-65C most of the time and in 10mans it is always <65C. It only hits 69C-74C where there are a lot of water effects on screen while using the new water engine.


EDIT
As of right now. I played SC2 for about 10 minutes and stopped playing and exited. The computer has been sitting there on (AC power only) and the three GPU temps are consistently at:

GPUZ Readings
GPU Temp #1 40.5C
GPU Temp #2 50.5C
GPU Temp #3 45.5C

Argus Monitor (uses GPU Temp #2)
GPU Temp = 50C

 

I see that shoe3k is in my neighborhood. Welcome! +1 for a job well done.

 

I fired off an email to Gary to confirm this 213

 

What were your CPU before and after idle temps? My CPU, as of now, is idling at 39C. Browsing the web it only hits 44C and during gaming it barely hits 51C.

 

Did you repaste your CPU too? If yes, how did you handle the warranty sticker?

 

I put rubbing alcohol on the sticker and it came right up. Used a little bit of adhesive to put it back on.

Edit
Right now I received an error "Event ID 41". Not sure what caused it but it could be my AC because I have no battery plugged in. Right now I'm running Prime95 to stress the CPU. I'm doing maximum torture test and it is hovering between 70-71C and hasn't budged. I have been running the test for 10 minutes on all cores.

 

is there any sense in replacing the memory-pads?