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    Vaio VPCZ1 GPU Temp problem

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by slash23, Jul 21, 2016.

  1. slash23

    slash23 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi

    I've a big temperature problem on my vaio in Speed mode

    it's quite hot in italy now, I've 27C in my house but... my gpu keep turning off my laptop reaching 121C

    in idle I have 66C on gpu and 48C on CPU but when I try to play a game my temp go up

    I cleaned the fan (had not that much dust in it), changed the pad on gpu and replaced with the 0.4mm copper sink (thanks to the superkind timwjohn who sent me the shim) and artic silver 5... temp didnt change

    air flowing is quite hot and if I touch the heatsink (when I use the laptop opened) is like fire

    is it possible that the problem is windows 10 I installed?
     
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    Galm "Stand By, We're Analyzing The Situation!"

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    121C is crazy! Don't let that keep happening thats horrific for the parts!

    If you repasted and added a heatsink that's pretty weird that temps didn't change. They didn't get better or worse in any way at all?

    Edit: what program is reporting that, it may be the problem.
     
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    galaxyge Notebook Consultant

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    Stopp playing such demanding new games on this old but apart from that still amazing device. Reduce effects, textures etc. in the games settings.
    Check in task manager which processes are to blame.

    Sent from my E6653 using Tapatalk
     
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    slash23 Notebook Enthusiast

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    idle went down a bit but was not that problem

    is not always 121, it's the temp I record for a sec when I try to play a game

    dont think hearthstone is that demanding game
     
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    slash23 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I noticed that main heatsink is not fully touching CPUs and GPU sink... how can I reduce that space?

    you can see that the paste is not touching 100% of cpu and gpu sink
     

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    slash23 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I bended the heatsink a bit, now have 57C idle and 94C max in game on GPU, no more shutdowns

    not that perfect build quality btw... the heatsink part is not that good
     
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