older temps, higher temps

as months go by, I'm noticing and have read issues with the temps for the vid card getting hotter and hotter as time goes by. This I've noticed.

I've first got it in june with idle temps of I think it was 55c. now its above 64c. This is stock btw.

I'm wondering if there is anyone who owns a g73 model and has theirs for more then 7 months that can post their temps from before and after.

edit - just wondering If I'll eventually need to update to ic diamond or something.

 

I would try blowing out your vents with some compressed air first.

There has been tons of reports of the thermal paste initially used by Asus drying out over time causing higher temps.

I have a G53JW but I changed the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU right after I made the recovery discs, so I can't report on the deterioration of the original paste over time.

 

now i see why the guy was trying very hard to tell me to put IC diamond 7 for some extra bucks
but i was thinking that probably he wanted to take more money from me for nothing
not that i am dissapointed from Asus stock paste but i would't be wrong if i paid more money for IC diamond 7

 

would my air pump work? I use it for my air bed. I can blow air into it.

 

Well, not knowing the CFM of your air pump, I would still recommend going to a PC parts store and getting some compressed air.

You'll definitely be using it more than once, so look at it as a good investment.

 

good idea i am going for my air pump from my old bike
the air is not so strong so it can damage any parts...

 

I don't know why everyone thinks that IC7 is the end all thermal compound. Nowadays, pretty much any brand name thermal compound works great and applies smooth and evenly.

As much as I wish ASUS would have made the disassembly of G73 and G53 laptops easy, the fact of the matter is that they didn't. Unless you really know what you're doing, I wouldn't recommend anybody attempt the repast by themselves despite what some people on this forum say.

 

aight, something like this?

true, I say ic diamond just cause its the only one I'm familiar with.

since it is ridiculously scary to me to open it (I watched the video), if I ever do a repaste, I'll ask genteck or powernotebooks to do it for me

 

1) That's perfect for what you need to do.

2) Don't get me wrong, IC7 is still a good compound. It's just not a miracle cure for PC temps.

3) I don't blame you for taking it to someone. A $1500 laptop is not something you want to be second guessing yourself on.

 

k, thx for your help Nakano2k1.

 

becouse it is ... try to search some benchmarking temperatures i am sure you will find
btw i am not repasting at least when i saw my GPU temperature 75-80 C in iddle

 

My G73JH-A2 just turned 6 months and on it's 5th month, I've noticed it's GPU temp increased. I first used HWiNFO32 on its 4th month and recorded it's idle temp is 66C at 700/1000 and 61C-62C at 300/1000.

Later on, I just noticed that it is now idling at 68C-71C at 700/1000 and 64C-65C at 300/1000. Now, I have to use a notebook cooling pad and got it's idling at 62C-63C at 300/1000.

As of now, I'm using PowerPlay of ATI and setting it to Maximize Battery even if plugged-in so that I can minimize the GPU temps for the mean time before I repaste. I'm still about to order ICD7 on ebay Australia as ICD7 gave a lot of people here promising GPU temps and it is also the one recommended by XoticPC on their laptop customizations.

The G73JH-A2 of my brother is just a month older than mine. But our GPU temps are almost the same before and after the paste has degraded.

 

My MemIO temp seems to have gone up, but my core temp is still the same as when I got it. I attribute the difference to memory problems

 

I can tell you originally my G73 would stay about 82-83c running WoW, even hours in, and hit 89c in Furmark. After my last repaste it caps at 68c in WoW, 72c Furmark. I also figured out it's not so much getting a "good" or "bad" gfx card, but more about how evenly you can get the heatsink to sit on the card [in my case, the card itself was warped, and I had to pull off the C-clips on the heatsink mounting screws and VEERRRRRYYYY Carefully tighten things down.

And because someone will ask, after 7 or 8 months: Yes, the OEM paste was dry and crumbly.

 

Bad news (or good news, depending ...)

I used a can of compressed air (not all of it!) to blow out my g73. Back to a max of 94 in furmark. That's a 10 degree drop from some compressed air.

... oops. While typing this, it peaked at 97. Maybe not? Still. Try some compressed air.