Stilll overheating after applying thermal compound (artic silver 5) and dust cleaning
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tom933
October 17, 2013 8:00:07 AM
enemy1g
October 17, 2013 8:10:46 AM
John Bong
October 17, 2013 8:15:28 AM
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First of all, portables overheat. That's what they do. Second, I TOTALLY disagree with the conventional wisdom of placing a pea sized blob of paste in the center of the heat spreader and spreading it by applying pressure with the HSF. This concept is advocated by people who don't have the manual dexterity to make a PB&J sandwich. These people should not be working inside a computer case in the first place. The proper way to apply thermal paste is to spread a thin layer evenly over the entire heat spreader with a credit card (or other). Squeezing the pea sized blob creates a circular paste pattern on a square heat spreader totally ignoring the corners of the interface. The lame argument made to support this method is that the heat is concentrated in the center of the heat spreader. It's true that the center is hotter but that doesn't mean that the corners are cool. ANY amount of heat that can be transferred to the HSF will benefit the CPU temp especially in a laptop. Think about it. Why would you limit yourself to less than 80% of the available surface area of the heat spreader just because you're too lazy or too inept to spread the paste?
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tom933
October 22, 2013 6:24:47 AM
tom933 said:
ive tried the pea size but still idling around the high 60s this is after using dust off to clean fans etc, but yeah i only tried the pea size amount but ill try the spreading it evenly and see how it goes im using artic silver 5 btwBe sure to spread the paste as thinly and evenly as possible covering every spec of the spreader.. There was an article on Tom's yesterday about pastes. Arctic Silver isn't bad but there are better.
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tom933
October 22, 2013 6:53:28 PM
tom933 said:
so i reapply the thermal paste as instructed but still in the high 60s
checking speed fan my fan is only running at 200RPM when is hits 80+ it goes to 1000+RPM
is that normal
If this were a desktop I'd say those RPMs were very low but you need to check with the OEM to see how the cooling system is suppose to function including fan speeds.
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tom933
October 23, 2013 5:34:45 AM
tom933
October 23, 2013 3:43:20 PM
tom933 said:
mine was the Asus U50V but its a discontinued so?I just read a review of your ASUS that was 4 years old. If that's a good indicator of the age I would think that ASUS still offers some level of support for it. Give them a call. You might be surprised. Also, I would visit the ASUS forums and see if anybody else is having this problem with that computer.
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tom933
October 23, 2013 8:20:01 PM
tom933
October 23, 2013 8:34:59 PM
tom933 said:
so i downloaded speedfan on my brothers laptop and his is around 60c aswell but when his gaming its still the samebut his fan is 3000RPM , im guessing its my fan, i just ordered one online and ill see how it goes thanks for the help btw
I don't know. Fans usually make noise when they go bad. It won't hurt to replace it but I think you should compare your brother's BIOS settings to your own. Maybe a setting somewhere is preventing the fan speed from increasing with heat.
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tom933
October 25, 2013 6:18:19 AM
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