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    Asus M50SV - 9500MGS Might need replacing. Your thoughts?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by M00_cow, Jun 18, 2011.

  1. M00_cow

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    Hi guys,

    For the past half a year (ish), I've noticed my laptop acting up in games. What appears to happen is that the GPU downclocks and upclocks as I am playing - in relation to heat issues I suppose - which results in freezes and lag when trying to use it whilst it's downclocked.

    I opened it up and cleaned out the fan, and the heatsink. I re-pasted the CPU and it runs wonderfully cool now, but I was hesitant to do the same to the GPU and also skeptical as to how effective that might be.

    What do you suggest I should do? Put new heat transference gel on the GPU? Buy a new GPU for it? Buy a new laptop?

    I'm not really ready to go out and buy a new laptop yet. This thing is still fast enough for me... I just wish the GPU wasn't actively trying to destroy itself.

    Oh- BTW. Some GPU stats. 9500MGS /w 512MB. Idles on 60 degrees. Heads north to around 90 degrees at most whilst in games. CPU however pushes 65 degrees.

    Thankyou for any advice/help!

    Matt
     
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  2. ramgen

    ramgen -- Morgan Stanley --

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    First one. Replace the thermal paste with a high quality one. Preferably with IC Diamond.

    You will see a noticeable drop in the temps.


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    M00_cow Newbie

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    Fantastic! I'll have to give that a shot.
     
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    Cheeseman Eats alot of Cheese

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    The Geforce 9500M GS in an ASUS M51Sn I retired to a family member died a few weeks back. It lasted approximately 3 years which it not all that bad, but I'm afraid yours might face a similar outcome. The Geforce 9500M GS is essentially a renamed Geforce 8600M GT and runs on the same defective G84 architecture, so its only a matter of time before it fails.
     
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    Should I expect it to last less and less time under stress? Is that something that happens? Will it begin to downclock at lower and lower temperatures?

    I imagined that the card would be hardcoded to downclock at a set temperature, but it seems to be doing it more and more these days.
     
    M00_cow, Jun 19, 2011
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    King of Interns Simply a laptop enthusiast

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    So, I bought some Arctic MX-2 and went to town. Brought my GPU idle temp down 5 degrees to around 54ish.

    Now to see how it goes in a game.

    #Has definately worked. Whilst the average temps remain more or less the same, it doesn't seem to get as hot and therefore the downclocking issue is gone. Thanks
     
    M00_cow, Jun 19, 2011
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