G51 Series Temps... worry or no?

In digging through this site, I've found many threads and posts about the G51's high temps, particularly with the 260m GPU. I myself have a G51J on order and after reading all of these, I can't help but be a bit concerned about my purchase.

What I haven't been able to find are posts about people who have experienced lockups, automatic downclocks or even worse... hardware failures... due to this "heat" issue.

So, I thought I'd ask the group and see if anyone has experienced any of these, or if the "heat" issue has only been about worry of something that "could" happen as opposed to something that's "been happening" in terms of failures or performance loss from the GPU automatically downclocking to avoid overheating.

Thoughts? Opinons?

Thanks!

 

Never had a lockup or a downclock or anything. And mine is OC'd. So if anything my temps would be worse. I've even run without my cooler and no problems

 

I honestly didn't get heat issues until my firefox started taking up my cpu for some reason.

 

There's no problems with running at high temperatures. It only becomes a problem when your GPU, CPU, and Chipset are fried in a year or two of use right after your warranty expires.

 

That's one of my worries. I don't know exactly how long the G50/G51 series has been around, so I don't know if enough time has passed for these things to start happening.

 

G50 released ~ 2 years ago now. Other than some sporadic gpu fails which might be due to nVidia's manufacturing bug, reports around here indicate the series has been solid.

The G50 series does run warm, but that's what you get from a gaming notebook with heat-producing components inside when you use it for such . Also keep in mind that forum members here tend to be a more elite, obsessive bunch that stress over temp and performance numbers that both Asus and the general public would consider within spec.

Asus historically will run a series production 2-3 years, then scraps the chassis design for something new. The G50 series will probably go through 1-2 more revisions or so, and then EOL and be replaced.

But that is a consequence of the cpu at higher load using multipliers with higher voltage and bleeding the heat off, not due to anything about the design. And you noted in your other thread that it was an add-on problem causing it.

 

In the short term, there are no worries.

In th long term, you'll hurt your poor GPU and make it die prematurely. Unless you fight it with copper, bandaids, and paste.