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    ASUS F3J run

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by asapnick, Jun 21, 2008.

  1. asapnick

    asapnick Newbie

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    Hello, maybe i cand find some help here from fellow ASUS'ers!!! my notebook, an asus f3j ive owned for roughly 18 months. take very good care of it, always ran well, but recently started running really hot. like the palmrest is almost too hot to touch, and also underneath is extremly hot - so i opened it up the back and blew out the dust. suprisingly, there was not much, even in the vents behind/below the fan. for how hot it is running, i was expecting just clouds of dust like ive seen in my desktops. . . but relativley clean - i can post pics to show

    after cleaning, still running about the same temperature, and still very hot on the palm rest and below. it is much hotter on the right hand side. NHC shows cpu at 58-60C and hd at 39C.

    please advise further in order to help these temp problems, could this be battery related?? will check later how temp go w/o being plugged in.

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    1. What notebook do you own/going to own (Make and Model)?

    ASUS F3J

    2. Specs of the notebook (List Details Please)

    t7200, ati x1700 vid card, gig of ram

    3. Maximum and minimum temperature of CPU/GPU/HDD in Celsius and if possible idle and load times (see software guide)

    cpu - 58-50C

    hdd - 39C

    gpu - ??

    4. What sort of cooling solutions are you looking for? (active solutions (fan coolers/passive, thermal paste...etc) )

    how to clean more/ add laptop cooler

    5. Budget for cooling solutions?

    6. Your general computer knowledge (Beginner to Expert)

    tons and tons, but i know im no expert
     
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  2. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    What is your CPU usage, typically? Maybe some application is always running the CPU full blast. Typical example viruses/spyware, or some buggy app :)

    Also, perhaps in some way you have disabled speedstepping (throttling down the CPU frequency when the CPU is idle), so that now it's always forced to run at max speed. Make sure that your CPU is speedstepping; one way to do that is to use RMClock with No Management mode and check the Monitoring tab.
     
    E.B.E., Jun 21, 2008
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