Yes another G60VX

Im running a stock G60VX. Im having a major problem. My computer is running IDLE, sitting on a table doing NOTHING! The gpu runs at around 105-110 C and the CPU is around 50-55. I feels that hot too, and the fan is on full power. Its been repasted correctly with Silver 5 about 4 months ago, the fan is cleaned out. Its just absurd. When I pop off the back panel and lets it sit elevated it cools down to about 90-95 for the GPU, and 40-45 for the CPU.

I know I can "fix" the problem with a laptop cooler, but its not always practical or portable. I do run a cooler pad under it with multiple fans and it keeps it at around 70-80 GPU idle, under load it still gets up to 100-105. So rule that out, there has to be something else wrong that I can fix. It should NOT be running this hot.

I can provide more info if needed, and thanks in advance for any replies or help

 

When you say repasted properly with AS5 who by? Because even with a hairdryer as cooling the temps should not be that high with AS5 when it is running at IDLE.

Personally I think you either have a horrendous application of thermal compound, blocked fans full of dust (most likely) or a fan that isn't actually working.

If you have blocked fans use compressed air to clean them out, even with a good thermal compound application if the fans are just blowing hot air nowhere due to being clogged with dust it is only going to lead to bad temperatures.

 

+1 Yiddo

Your gpu will fail at those temps.

 

the fact that is cools down so much with a cooler leads me to think that its that your vent is severely clogged. A fan under the computer blowing air into it should not cool it down by 20C unless it isn't getting rid of the hot air in the first place. Or a not working internal fan

 

Sorry for the late reply. Thats whats confusing me so much. My GPU is honestly getting that hot, and ive applied AS5 to components before and I know im doing it correctly, ive already cleared out my fan with air, some came out, but nothing horrendous, I can still feel hot air being pushed out of the vent. The fan and included thermal system really sucks. This is why im at a loss, I have no idea what to do, should I just try re-pasting in case? The entire laptop gets very hot, case, keyboard, everything is pretty warm to the touch. I leave the panel off the bottom and elevate the laptop, that keep it idle around 80-85C. Even if the port is blocked it shouldn't matter as the case is open.

Besides re-pasting is there anything anyone can think of?

 

Well obviously something is severely wrong with your cooling. The temps shouldn't be anywhere near that.

 

ok, I ran into this too. my cpu was idleing at 80-90 it turned out that the fan was caked up. but I had to disassemble the fan shroud so I could see it was clogged, that then brought down my cpu temps 50-60 however my gpu was still around 80, so when I took the heatsink off the gpu again, I noticed that only a portion of it had any paste, it just wouldnt contact the gpu completely, i put a copper shim between the heatsink and gpu, pasted both sides, brought my temps down to 60-70 ish......


edit....
take the shroud apart on the fan housing, I dont know if blowing thru will get "all" of the crud out. check out one of my threads I posted what it looked like

 

Yes remove the fan and it's housing and then try to spray the dust out. After use a tool such as a paintbrush to manually remove all of the dust out. Simply spraying air into the vents from the outside of the laptop will not do you any good. I didn't even think I had much dust in there and that cleaning this would solve anything but to my surprise my temps dropped from 110c load to 60-80 depending on how graphically intensive the game is and how long I played with slight overclock and copper and drill mod.

 

Awesome, I did that. Removed the whole heating system and cleared it out there was a bunch of stuff there that the compressed air wasn't getting out. I did a re-paste too just to be safe, temps dropped to a pretty normal reading. Running at around 70-90C GPU under load, and idles around 50-60 ish.

Thanks for all the replies everyone.