Solution to thomasck.dk's GPU trouble?

Today while making a mold for the add-on GPU cooler I happend to find what I belive is the answer to thomasck.dk's GPU trouble.

I made two molds one with the GPU cooler clip on and the other off.

The clip is inserted in a bracket on one side and tightened with a screw on the other.

When I was running 3Dgfx to harden the mold (a special german clay that gets solid by heat) I discovered that the temperature rised very quickly and then then at 96C the graphics started to stutter.

But then when I put the GPU cooler clip on I noticed that the temperature became much lower.

I was running Lightsmark and the tempererature was about 10C lower and never reached higher then 88C.

And the best thing: No stutter.

(the tempereratur is still rising quickly and its because the GPU cooler is not sufficient. Hopefully this will change with my add on cooler )

Thomas I think your problem could be that your cooling clip is not tightened enough.

So I suggest you to open your laptop and tighten the screw for the GPU cooler.

 

Interesting!

 

But how come that his monitoring software never recorded high temperatures enough?

 

Just read this ! VERY VERY interesing find ! Im amazed !

I will surely look more into this! Thanks alot! (at work, dammit! i wanna get home )

 

My max gaming temp is around 95-96, so his dicovery seems to be a scary match.

*edit*
Btw Klas, can I get you to post a small picture of the screw you sugest to thigten ?

 

The highest GPU temperature that I've seen is 110C with playing GoW
at the highest OC that is possible with my GO8600M GT...

Normally playing a game/ running a 3D Mark '06 bench.. 95C

 

possibly lots of cache misses with raising temperature..

 

Thats crazy high temps! I've never gotten mine above 80c not even when clocking so high I was 1 step away from artifacts.. and my room is really warm also.

 

The big metal airflow thingy being visible when people are removing the keyboard... is that the gpu cooler part? or is that cpu cooler? Just wondering what part and what screw klas was talking about. Anyone know ?

 

First a word of caution as I would be careful when 'fiddling' with the motherboard and screws as you may accidentally break something.

e.g. Over tightening

It would be good to get a Zepto Team members opinion on this however.

On the other side could be an interesting fix, nicely done

 

I think I know what screw you are talking about, and that should (hopefully) be tightened from factory. If it's not, it's probably a good idea to do so.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/gallery/uploads/106591/DSCF2141.JPG

thomas it's the thing to the left of the removed key. And the screw to tighten is the one of the "silvershiny" metalbracket holding this.

tofen: I have a question for you. When I got my laptop one of the keyboardscrews was missing! Can I have one of those.
And I would also need two mini PCIxpress screws since I installed Turbo Memory afterwards. Right now I have one screw for the WLAN and one for the TM.

 

Shouldn't be a problem. Just contact our support department and they can probably arrange it for you.