Asus G50vt-x5 (bestbuy) CPU overheating

Hi!!

I've search everywhere for some sort of solution, but most of what I've seen deals with the GPU overheating, and thats not whats going on here.

So I just upgraded the CPU in the Asus G50VT-X5 (Bestbuy) laptop to the Intel T9600 CPU. It works great! BIOS and Windows detect it just fine, and everything seems to run a little bit faster. However, it runs really hot, and has shutdown a couple of times due to overheating. Especially when running Guild Wars 2. The old CPU ran it just fine (granted on low setting, but never had any issues).

I've been using Coretemp, as well as MSI Afterburner, and HWiNFO to monitor and display CPU and GPU temps while in game. The CPU hovers around ~90c with spikes up to ~102c. This seems to be a bit hot to me, and I don't want to kill my new CPU. I also use a laptop cooling pad with a USB powered fan.

I've been looking into a new fan (which wouldn't be a terrible idea anway) but can only seem to find replacements, and not an upgrade. Something that fits into the G50VT-X5 but has a higher RPM then the stock one. Not sure if one can upgrade the whole cooling system on this machine or not (the fan and heatsinks).

Any advice, and or recommendations to help cool this down would be greatly appreciated.

Specs here: Asus G50VT-X5 review - CNET

CPU: http://ark.intel.com/products/35563/Intel-Core2-Duo-Processor-T9600-(6M-Cache-2_80-GHz-1066-MHz-FSB)

Please note the CPU has been upgraded to Intel C2D T9600 2.8GHz, other then that all the other specs are the same. Thanks!

 

When you installed the new CPU did you put a good quality thermal paste on it? You may want to do a repaste anyway to see if you get better temps. Also check to make sure the heatsink is seated on the CPU properly.

 

Actually I was able to get it solved. I did go with a better quality paste (AS5). I started thinking that the generic mayo paste it came with wasn't the best, and quite possibly part of the problem. I also decided to grease up the fan, as well as do a more thorough cleaning. I removed the whole unit and cleaned it out, and applied a small amount of baby oil (mineral oil) to the spindle. That also has help tremendously.
So now, after the good paste, and the fan lubed up, it's running at ~65c -~70c while running Guild Wars 2. Which is FAR more acceptable than it was.

Edit: I also upgraded the BIOS to a more current version, and that also seems to play a part in fan/CPU power management, which in turn helps cool things down.

 

Sounds like you did what was needed, 65-70C is good.

 

Upgrade to the Forcecon DFS541305MH0T “F8U5" fan, more air flow and BTW X9100 extreme CPUs are cheap on Ebay. Get an SSD for real snappiness. Upgrade the DVD-rom drive firmware so it doesn't do a seek during windows boot