Asus G1S-A1 Heat issues?

When doing intensive things with the GPU, how hot does your card get? RivaTuner is telling me 90+ degrees celsius, no matter what I use it with, and I know that is far, far too hot. Something has to be wrong with a fan or something, right?

 

No. 90C gpu in a notebook, at load, is normal -- especially when you're pushing it heavily. At idle or when just surfing, well, that's another story for another time .

You could clean out the radiator fins and fan if you've never done, that could help a bit.

 

Also i suggest that you lift the back end of the notebook as someone else told me about..

Lift up the back like a 2 inches or so with a book or something, and it does cool it down quite a bit...

You could always gete a notebook cooler fan too if you have the money for it

 

The G1S are notorious for higher temps. 90C is pretty normal for you, some users hit 105C often.
The card can take it, although I don`t know about the notebook itself.
A good cooling pad or notebook cooler and undervolting the cpu might decrease the heat a bit.

 

But cleaning the heatsink as ClearSkies suggested may still not be a bad idea if the notebook is older than a few months.

 

I'd just need to do some unscrewing and hit it with a compressed air can, right?

 

It's better if you access the heatsink directly. If you're lucky, the fan is accessible via a panel on the bottom of the notebook. Look for that panel, remove it, remove the FAN, and you should see the heatsink ventilation grill/fins. Clean both the fan and the heatsink fins with q-tips or something similar.

This only works on some computers, I'm not sure the G1 is one of them. On other computers it's more complicated.

There is a guide on cleaning an ASUS computer following the outline I gave above, on the Info Booth.

 

I did this and my comp temp dropped ENORMOUSLY..

I do believe around 20C

 

Sure, if the heatsink was clogged the drop can be as high as that. It's always a good idea to regularly clean your notebook.