Extremely hot GPU - 93°C!!! :(

Indeed it does. Happy to hear you're back and gaming.

 

Well tried Crysis 2 for a while (as the Crysis 3 servers seemed to be down) and max temp was 87 degrees. So a 5 degree difference from what I was experiencing before. Not amazing but from my reading around the Arctic Silver needs a 200 hour period to settle before reaching its maximum efficiency, so hopefully temps will keep going down with time.

 

i´d say there is a lot of difference between 93 and 87. Good to hear you are doing good agian.

 

The way the laptop is designed has an affect on it also. It's not designed all that well, at least in the cooling department.

J.Dre

 

Yeah I know it's not designed for gaming but it was a rushed buy. See last year I accidentally killed my old Sony VAIO laptop with water, at a time when I had zero money but desperately needed a laptop for my studies at uni. So had to get a new laptop asap, luckily my dad's home insurance covered me but only to the current value of my VAIO (which unsurprisingly had dropped in price considerably since I first bought it). Limited budget, especially in UK where the price of laptops is 20% more than America because crappy extortionate VAT. This one had just been launched in the UK and had the best specs for the price at the time (all others in price range had sandy bridge & fermi gpus). So I didn't have many options.

It's a very decent laptop for the time and price I bought it at. It just never was designed for hardcore gaming.

I'm in a better situation now financially and once I leave uni (i.e. later this year) and *fingers crossed* get a job I'll be on the lookout for a customised laptop with Haswell and Geforce 700M series

 

The 650m comes in low end gaming laptops and high end multimedia laptops. More of those high end multimedia laptops have problems with cooling the 650m. Good cooling makes your laptop noisy, takes a lot of room and costs money. I think in my notebook the bottleneck lays rather in the heathinkg/cooling paste than in the actual airflow.

MSI GE60-i550M245 15,6'' Gaming Notebook | MSI | Hersteller | Notebooks | handyshop.de
At the moment this is the best 650m notebook in Europe. Took me a whole lot of research to find this laptop. Good barebone but needs ram and HDD upgrade. I got this one.

 

edit: sorry the post above was accidently posted twice.