CPU Thermal Issues NP910

Just hit 101C playing Marvel Heroes. Now maybe it's the gaming gods punishing me for playing it, but I'm a sucker for comic books so go ahead and make fun. What's strange is my 675mx isn't breaking 55c. Ambient room temp is around 25-26. No other temperature spikes with any other games. I did pay for arctic 5 paste job from sager since i was too lazy to do it myself. Bought the rig in January, so it's about 6 months old. I do clean the vents normally, have yet to do the foil mod but the cpu exhaust seems more lined up than the gpu side.

Bad coding for a single game or time for a repaste? If time for a repaste which brand? Looking at Prolimatech Pro PK3

Just played 3 straight matches of DOTA and hit a max of 91. Just hit the same temp in Borderlands 2. Going to do another vent clean and see if that helps.

 

is this the thermal paste job i paid for?

 

Looks like i will need to repaste

 

as far as i know its almost impossible to tell how good a job was done until you get high temps and then the pipes removed and then of course its broken the contact.
ive heard of different ways of applying the paste. pea in middle and just press down or pea/line and then spread out evenly with a credit card or something flat.. that looks like its just had the pea and pressed down and missed some of the contact but then you would have had higher temps right from the start.
the ambient room temperature doesnt help as well.
in the last week ive raised my laptop with a dongle under the middle back raising it enough to get more air flow and its helped slightly.
its 32c here in the uk (at last summer is here)and im dreading to game as just brousing gpu id 46c and cpu 48/40/53/43c

 

What were your temps 6 months ago with gaming? This is sudden spike or never notice till now? If you have a Radio Shack handy then AS5 is carried including a really good citrus based cleaner called artic clean, but pure 100% alcohol works fine. AS5 is good enough as you may be in hurry to see if repaste helps. Any torn pads?

Raising back of laptop very good. I still use a cooler for drives and ram and for first stage hair ball trap.

 

It's been sitting on top of a cooler master u3 since i got it. Previous temps never broke 85 or so. Im going to try to do the repaste today myself. Have watched some videos but I have never repasted a laptop. I didn't notice any performance issues, no artifacting or slowdow, but i know the cpu has an autoshutdown at 105 so i dont want to harm the machine.


Alright, got some arctic 5 at radioshack and have repasted. Time to go test again.

 

I found it easy to put big pea sized blob right in middle of GPU/CPU. Other use thin card to lay out thin-even 100% layer over top, black square section, only.

You want it even and bubble free on the die, whatever method you use

Cleaning before repaste is important so that hair or other debris does no create fatal air gap/bubble. Notice the numbers on heat pipe? Loosen and tighten in that order, like an engine head block and ensure all is down tight with no gaps. Snug-tight the screws but don't torque the heck out of them.

If ya got extra paste, practice, when you pull heat pipes you should see 100% coverage on the inner black/gold die, not so much on surrounding green areas or you wasting TIM. If you use a liquid metal TIM, not recommended, unless you apply carefully as THEY are electrically conductive.

 

Looks like I didn't too bad for my first paste job. Just ran it for a few hours in a couple different games without my cooling pad on; temps top out at 82C now.

I won't be wasting $30 again on having a paste job doneat the factory when I order my next machine. However, I think perhaps they only applied the IC7 compound to the GPU possibly and just did a poor job of applying generic paste on the CPU.

 

what's your ambient temperature? i just ran marvel heroes for the past three hours on an overclocked 670m and didn't break 70C.