Clevo M670SRU heat issue

Hello all. I recently got a Hyrican m670sru (it was a gift) wich is rebranded clevo. It had a T2310 cpu and 2 GB of ram. I had some money so I bought 4 gigs of ram, 320 GB hdd and a T7500 cpu. All is well, except the cpu heats up really fast and laptop shuts itself. I did some research and i found about the RMClock utility so I devolted it. Now it doesn't shut itself that fast but on high load it heats up to about 95 degrees and rmclock gives me warning. On idle it sits at about 65 degrees. What did I do wrong, or is there any way to keep the temperature down? The cpu isn't too much for the chassis because i saw the same laptop with even stronger cpu.

P.S. I know this is ancient equipment, but it is all i have.

 

take the base plate off and give it a good clean out around the fans and vents with compressed air.
it most prob will also need new thermal paste for the cpu contact.

 

I did that immidiately when I got new parts. There is no single bit of dust inside and thermal paste is new. Also I noticed that gpu temp is about 75 degrees on idle and above 80 on light load, which is also high I suppose. When I open the back cover where the cpu is, temperature is pretty much normal (up to mid 80's with orthos running), but then the gpu is getting really hot. I'd guess that the small heatsink isn't up for the job....but then again here is exactly the same laptop Sager NP6790 Laptop Review with T7700.....and I dont see any additional fan holes, so there must be a catch.

 

no idea then mate. sorry i cant advise anymore as i dont know that model at all and i dont want to guess.

 

The only thing that is different between mine and the laptop reviewed there is the thermal paste. Is this arctic silver really that effective? I have put some cheap white thing.

 

theres your problem then. resellers charge extra for better thermal paste for a reason.
what name did this cheap white thing have? and how did you apply it.

at work now but will post a video about the various ways to apply it later.

 

It's gigatech (chinese). I put small ammount on cpu and spread it evenly with plastic card.

 

Listen, no upgrade is worth the risk if you are gonna ruin it with a bad chinese goo that has the heavy task of dispersing heat from your valuable hardware.

Put something good like Arctic MX-2 , MX-4, Prolimatech or Arctic Silver. Cooling pastes are CHEAP compared to the components you are about to fry.
After a proper repaste, lo and behold, the mighty temps brought low to their early 40's and so the system was saved from catastrophic meltdown. The end.

 

A different paste is not going to reduce temps by 40 - 50 degrees Celsius. It sounds like either something went wrong during your assembly, compound application, or there is faulty hardware.

 

I will try with good paste. I have a choice between arctic mx-2, mx-4 and noctua nt-h1. And for the hardware issue, wouldn't it give me system errors and bsod's rather than just being too hot? Only thing that comes to my mind is that I have replacement adapter which is 3.4A and the original is 4.7A (voltage is the same), but I tried it running on battery and it's the same. Maybe the source of my problems is the graphics card wich sits around 80 degrees on idle and heats up the whole laptop and the fan keeps trying to cool down the heatsink with hot air.

 

Faulty hardware could be a bad thermal sensor or maybe a damaged heatpipe. You wouldn't get BSODs from that. Hopefully reapplying the paste and reseating the faceplate helps.

 

OK, so i wanted to see the condition of paste under the gpu heatsink so I dismantled the whole thing just to find that there is no paste but some rubber like material that keeps gpu in contact with heatsink. Didn't want to mess around so I screwed it back, applied the same chinese paste in the same way as before, and....... o.m.g. The thing works!! As soon as the temp reaches 80 or so degrees the fan kicks in and brings it right back to 60's. And that is after I returned voltage to normal. Even while stressing the cpu it never goes above 90. It is the wierdest of things, but hey...it works now. And hopefully i'll bring down few degs more with that new paste.