Hello ladies and gents, I have a three-year old gaming laptop (yes, not ideal but that's all I have for now), an ASUS G73JH with the following specs:
Core i7 720QM
Radeon HD5870
4GB RAM
The idle temperature of this laptop is 70-degree Celcius, could be because of the very hot summer here in Australia. When playing the game with lowest possible graphic settings, the temperature would be at 85-degree Celcius, with peak at 95-degree, really close to the temperature at which the laptop would shut down.
I am just wondering if there is any solutions to lower the temperature? I have used vacuum cleaner to remove dust, but it has not helped. Would using external laptop fan help?
I am looking into the possibility of getting an affordable gaming desktop, so I am taking suggestion on that as well. Preferably something from this list:
Hi. Your laptop, even by todays standards, should be pretty good performance wise. I wouldn't mind having it. About it's heat, one of those laptop cooling pads would help some, but don't expect too much. If you have air conditioning, you could try running a peice of duct work from a AC vent to the air intake port of the laptop so it's pulling that 15'c air right into the laptop. That would probably give you the best results, short of sitting in a freezer and playing.
About the prebuilt desktops, that website prices seem to be pretty fair, and they do use all higher-quality stuff in thier builds. Personally, I'd suggest the GeForce GTX 660 Ti Gaming System 1 build. That system won't have a problem maxing out MW:O at 1080p.
you have to dissassemble the notebook, clean the cooling units from dust and renew the thermal pasts. 3 years of work have surely dryed them out. if u are not able to do it yourself, take it to some specialised shop... trust me, you risk a permenant damage of the grafic-ic if you dont clean the book well. and spare parts for asus are really expensive.
The dreaded G73! First off I'd recommend heading over to forums.notebookreview.com and digging up the old G73 thread. Tons of great info on the ins and outs of this particular notebok.
First, a no brainer: get a can of compressed air and blow into the back exhaust vents to make sure you're not dust clogged. Make sure the machine is off, and don't worry, it'll boomerang around the circular fan port and come out on the other side.
Second:
REMOVE EVERY SINGLE ASUS PROGRAM INCLUDED ON THE NOTEBOOK if you haven't already. I've worked on two of these [one mine, one a friend's, which he bought under my recommendation], and both times I got a 15-20c reduction in temps simply from removing all the asus junk. Just about everything those programs do is already done by Windows, and all they do is suck up resources. Ultimately I'd grab a program like Activation Backup Restore and just do a fresh reinstall of windows [good time to upgrade to an SSD if you haven't yet] use ABR to backup and then restore the activation, and DO NOT use any of the asus install media. Instead, get the latest video drivers from ATi and let windows install the rest.
Naturally if you've already done this you can skip this part
Under the assumption that that didn't really help:
For openers, I have one of these, though I no longer use it. The first thing you need to know is that the thermal paste on these from the factory was very badly applied in general, was very cheap to begin with, and would generally be dried out and flaking after a month or two. After two months I took mine apart, and the thermal paste was uneven and a consistency between dried toothpaste and ash. I ended up tearing mine down at least a half dozen times trying to get the screws on the heat sync balanced JUST SO to equalize temps. It's a lot of fun if you're into such things and enjoy a challenge, you essentially have to tear the thing down to the motherboard to get to it [you're essentially disassembling the entire thing. Video below.
Good luck, and if you have any questions don't hesitate to drop me a PM. I know this machine INTIMATELY from my time with it. She takes a little care and finesse, but she's still a great little notebook.
[PS: naturally I use the term "little" VERY loosely in this case. . It took me MONTHS to find a backpack that would fit it!]
Besides what is listed, disable Turbo Boost. Follow the directions listed but set the percent at 98% instead of the 99% listed in the article below. This has helped several players so far.
Just wondering what kind of performance other G73JH owners are seeing? Thankfully I don't have any heat issues with mine but I'm rarely getting over 20fps in-game.
I did extensiveness research myself in regards to the issue and was contemplating to disassemble the laptop to reapply thermal paste as suggested. However, I tried the good ol' dust-blowing (using a hair dryer cos I am cheap) and it works!
Idle temperature has dropped by 10C to 60C and when running MWO at lowest possible setting, it has dropped from 85-95 to 70-80. Massive temperature improvement!
My FPS is running at perfectly playable FPS at lowest possible setting (except for resolution that is set to third lowest). I may try to max out resolution to test how she goes now.
I'd still grab a small can of compressed air, you'd get a bit more pressure out of it, may help. . but your load temps are within spec ^^ Glad to see it was a more simple solution, repasting that thing is no joke.
I did extensiveness research myself in regards to the issue and was contemplating to disassemble the laptop to reapply thermal paste as suggested. However, I tried the good ol' dust-blowing (using a hair dryer cos I am cheap) and it works!
Idle temperature has dropped by 10C to 60C and when running MWO at lowest possible setting, it has dropped from 85-95 to 70-80. Massive temperature improvement!
My FPS is running at perfectly playable FPS at lowest possible setting (except for resolution that is set to third lowest). I may try to max out resolution to test how she goes now.
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Posted 24 December 2012 - 02:29 PM
I'd say definitely the Summer heat is giving your Lappy a pain in the arse. Best way to solve this is get a laptop fan, one that can hook up into the laptop itself. Look here for suggestions:
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