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    8710w Putting out a TON of heat!

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Darris, Jul 16, 2009.

  1. Darris

    Darris Notebook Enthusiast

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    So, my 8710w is putting out a TON of heat while playing games. It idles at around 55-60c, and while playing games (without any kind of cooler) it outputs at around 88-90c.

    I have both an fx1600m and an fx3600m card and both of them give me the same results.

    Now, you 8710w users: do you have this problem as well when playing games?
     
    Darris, Jul 16, 2009
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    when was the last time you cleaned out the vents and fans?

    if never, then thats why.

    you are supposed to regularly clean out the dust of a performance notebook monthly.
     
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  3. Darris

    Darris Notebook Enthusiast

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    It's a new laptop, less than 3 weeks old. I last cleaned out the vents this morning. They were spotless.
     
    Darris, Jul 16, 2009
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    Han Bao Quan The Assassin

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    I have to put mine on a cooler. Now you mean the GPu temp right? Because that's the one puts out most of the heat. When I play game, it goes up 69C or so.
     
    Han Bao Quan, Jul 16, 2009
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    if thats the case... then you should look at the thermal compound for the videocard.

    it might need re-application.
     
    Gophn, Jul 16, 2009
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    Darris Notebook Enthusiast

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    I re-applied the thermal. Arctic Silver.
    I had to double-check to make sure the gpu was making proper contact with the copper block.

    I have the CPU undervolted, and I even undervolted the 3600m and underclocked it slightly.

    This is making me pull my hair out. Is it the card, or is it something else? I noticed that the copper block has a crack in it, but that shouldn't affect temps by +20 deg now should it?

    I'd prefer temps like Han gets, but this is rediculous.
     
    Darris, Jul 16, 2009
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  7. Darris

    Darris Notebook Enthusiast

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    i noticed that the heatpads on the heatsink dont match up on the card's memory chips. would this have a large effect on heat dispersion?
     
    Darris, Jul 17, 2009
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    Where is the crack located? Could you post up a photo?
     
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  9. Darris

    Darris Notebook Enthusiast

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    On the edge of the copper block. I'll post pics of it in a bit.
     
    Darris, Jul 17, 2009
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    How did you undervolt the GPU?
     
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  11. Darris

    Darris Notebook Enthusiast

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    I used Nibitor to read the bios, then adjusted the voltages dcown by .5. I then used nvflash to flash the bios on the card with the lower voltages. So far it seems to be running pretty stable. I still need to tear apart the laptop to get to the heatsink to get those pictures though.
     
    Darris, Jul 19, 2009
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    must be something to do with the heatsink design of the laptop, my m6300 used to run (currently needs a clean/new thermal paste) 45deg at idle (no fan) - fx1600
     
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    Ok, I've finally taken the time ti dissasemble this compy for pictures. Attached is a picture of the hairline cracks in the heat sink:
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    Not a great pictures, but you can see the cracking on the bottom left of the block.
     
    Darris, Jul 31, 2009
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