ASUS M50SV - Need help with the temps !

Hi everyone recently my laptops fan started to kick in too much that it gives me headaches.
So i cleaned the dust from the fan and reapllied thermal paste to the processor. But it seem the actual problem is with another temp which hwmonitor calls THRM. I'm not sure what that is but at idle its already 60.
Any ideas what that might be?

 

it's the reading for ACPI Thermal Area, which varies by computer. a lot of times it's the chipset temperature.

 

can any m50 user tell me that temp of theirs when the laptop is at idle. If thats the chipset 60 seems pretty high..
If i can compare with someone it would be really helpful

 

That seems about right - My g51 had that sort of temperature at idle.

 

THRM is thermal sensor. It's location in the motherboard is varied but usually located where manufacture identified as possible hot spot. FAN control is tied to thermal sensor. Meaning FAN speeds will change according to thermal sensor's temperature. These values (passive cooling temperature, critical temperature, etc) are sets/configured in ACPI table.

The temperatures look normal. Also unless you're not comfortable with the noise produced by the FAN, the FAN should be able to handle/survive in long term even though it run at maximum speed all the time.

 

ok the problem starts when the computer is under load
cpu gets to 85 and the acpi gets to 91 which is th northbridge i suppose
when i got this laptop back in 2008 max temp for cpu was 65..

any suggestions?

min - idle temps
max - load temps

 

Heatsink also cover other components as well right? Not just CPU. You might want to re-apply thermal paste at that components too.

 

Here are my temps for comparison.



Max temps are after running Torchlight for 5-10 minutes.

I can't hear the fan while idling, and barely when under load, feels like very little air coming out hte vent for me, especially when compared to my G50v.

It's probably been around 6 months since I opened it up and blew the dust from the heatsinks which gave a noticable drop in temperature for me.

 

My temps (M50SV-A1, T9300 @ 2.5 GHz)
THRM: 46 Current Idle, 27 Min, 55 Max
Cores 1&2: 38, 19, 47
GPU Core: 61, 36, 255 (glitch?)

I don't run SHE on my system, either.

 

the heatsink is made of two parts actually one part covers the gpu which i didn't touch as my gpu temps seems stable..
the other part of the heatsink covers the northbridge and the cpu..
northbridge temp is denoted as THRM in hwmonitor..

when i reapplied the thermal paste to the cpu i saw that th northbridgr had a thermal pad instead so i removed it and applied paste too. But things got worse with the THRM temp so i put back the pad removing th paste.

comparing my temps to yours its clear that i have problem with load..
i ordered a new fan, new thermal pad and arctic mx-2 thermal paste..
i hope these will solve the problem ..=)

and many thx for the temps..

 

New thermal pad should do it. The original one might have harden & no longer able to cool down the north bridge chipset.