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    Best Cooling Pad for P-6831FX?

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Devryn, Feb 9, 2012.

  1. Devryn

    Devryn Notebook Geek

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    What's the best cooling pad? I've notice that most cooling pads try to pull air away from the bottom, but this laptop has a cooling system that pulls cool air in from the bottom (stupid design), so if you have two pulling forces acting against each other, the laptop is just going to get hotter...What what cooler will blow some cool air up my skirt? :p
     
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    If it is getting hot one might try to take apart the laptop and clean out the dust cause that will sometimes improve the cooling as well. I have a P-6860FX and a good dusting out helps cooling for CPU and GPU as well as putting at T9300 in the system helps keeps operating temperature cooler then the stock 1.82Ghz original cpu in there.
     
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    I upgraded to a T9300 yesterday, so everything was completely cleaned out. The CPU stays fine, but the GPU got to 202° playing SWTOR on high.
     
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    hydra Breaks Laptops

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    I use a ceiling fan when in my lair :) Works far better than some of the coolers.

    95C is close to your 100C alarm point. I assume you did check your fan speeds? No OC? You might want to consider a re-paste. The only pad I remember, was on the NB, but it did not tear on CPU swap. Sorry I'm drifting there ;)

    I should have but have re-pasted the GPU but that was a whole tear down to get to the heat pipe? Mine is on the radar but in use by the family..
     
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    My heatpipe appears to run from the GPU to the CPU. I repasted both as I had to remove the pipe and heat sinks (all one piece) to replace the CPU. I've always used a thin layer on the dye, just enough to cover it evenly. Maybe I used too little? Or too much? Like I said, the CPU is fine. It stays below 80C. The GPU, on the other hand, was 95C. Seems too hot.
     
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    So I guess I'll be taking my laptop apart tonight. LOL
     
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    Wow, SWTOR does not sound like it's optimized or something, lots of high heat posts. Ouch!

    FWIW, New Vegas run at high settings; CPU-58C, GPU-74C via HWMonitor running in background. Of course, other games really stress the hardware..

    Also, make sure your Heatsinks are sittting flat and you torque down by the numbers on your heat sink, ie, 1,2,3,4,5.

    You might want to bench your temps, before and after, to make sure something is not right. Intellburn test for CPU, Furmark for GPU. Careful, these will heat things up. my t9300 hit 76C after 5 runs. I'm scared to push the GPU so be careful but I think I went to 85C.

    If you have an old copy of FEAR; the built in bench was good for it's day.
    The free trial of PassMark is another combo test. Me, I like to see if I did anything that really worked. Lots of people swear by IC7 and the like if you have access.

    Check this site: SWTOR frying my Graphics card..

    Good Luck!
     
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