G50vt: Upgrade to GTX 260m?

What's your screen resolution out of curiosity? And did you apply paste liberally like Talon did?

 

I have the 15.6 screen, it is 1366x768. I also had the new drivers from nvidia. I ran the game at the high settings, not maxed out but close.

 

Ah, ok. I found once I upgraded my screen my temps jumped a good 5-10C depending on the game, and that I was more CPU-limited in some games. I never had my GPU top 95C before then, and now I have trouble keeping it under 93.

 

I pretty much gobbed the paste on the core and a little on the copper heat sink. When I sat the heat sink on I moved it around a little bit and screwed it down. Then unscrewed it and made sure everything touched and didn't make a mess (AS5 sucks by the way, leaked everywhere). The paste is pretty thick and doesn't allow much moving around, it didn't help that the syringe tip broke on delivery and I had to settle with large amounts at one time.

AS5 actually made things worse and things got hot really fast. When I opened it up to clean and it and re paste I noticed the AS5 had leaked all over the card and under that brown plastic covering the traces and metal pins. I removed that brown plastic and cleaned everything up nice. I couldn't reinstall that brown thing by the way but it runs cool now.

 

I opted for OCZ Freeze after reading a little bit. It seems to be a lousy compound unless applied correctly. I experimented with 3 different levels of paste, first a moderate application, then a heavy one, and then a light one. So far the lighter application is giving me the best temps by a little bit, but not by a lot (1-3C at most vs stock). I still hit 101 in the Furmark test while OC'd with two simultaneous threads of BOINC running. I've never touched that in-game, though.

I kept the brown plastic thing on the GPU and did my best to reapply the thermal pads as best I could. They're quite fragile! I think I will order copper blocks and apply those to the GPU sink to keep the memory chips a little cooler. I have a couple of dollars in eBay bucks to burn anyway.

 

If your are still running hot I would remove it and apply Shin-Etsu. That stuff is amazing. Just ran about 4 hours straight of Dawn of war 2 at work and it never went over 83c. Its stock speeds and stock res but I don't even feel the fan turning up to full. I don't know the effect of the brown plastic thing but mine works great without it. I feel it is a lot cooler than when I bought it originally. I didn't test the temps back then, but to the touch (around the top left of the keyboard) it's not burning my hand anymore to say the least.

 

Which type of shin etsu did you use?? I see theres a few of them.

 

At this point I think my money is best spent on other things like copper blocks. I don't see how going from a decent thermal compound to an excellent thermal compound will lower my temps 10C. I could always reflash my card to stock settings and voltages again, and take off the 19% FSB overclock, but where's the fun in that?

 

http://www.petrastechshop.com/shx2thco1gr.html
that is the one I used. I got mine with the tip broken and I am contacting them about replacement. If they don't replace it I probably won't be buying from them again.

 

I never overclocked a laptop but if you can point me in the right direction I might try it and see what temps it runs. I bought a g73 this week so probably won't have this one much longer.