MussInBoots

Hey, so it wouldn't work on a laptop as the die is directly exposed? I've read reviews on Amazon and it seems to be rather positive overall.

Hi, to keep this short, I've had my laptop for nearly 3 years now. It has a 4720HQ and GTX 950m. First year I left it as is to keep the warranty after which I repasted it with gelid gc extreme. Over the next year, the temperatures have slowly climbed to near stock levels and sometimes worse. So another year had passed and I again repasted the laptop but this time using prolimatech pk3. Again, temperatures were great for maybe 2-3 months before the cpu slowly started climbing up again and later on the gpu. Idle temps aren't affected nearly as the max temps which have climbed in the range of 10-13C (GPU maxes out at 77 from 65 and CPU maxes out at 94 from 81 causing throttling under heavy load). Problem is my laptop requires removing the keyboard to access the internals and this is attached through clips which are breaking off. I can't constantly open it up to repaste. I considered buying IC graphite as it's showing some great results and would help me alot but I can't know for sure whether my heatsink would sit flush and provide ample pressure. If I am to stick to thermal paste, is there a way to reduce pump out effects? At Least for the next 2-3 years. Perhaps putting a little more than needed as LTT proved that too much wouldn't affect temps. Unless anyone is aware of a thermal paste that's very resistant to pump out effects (preferably not IC diamond). Attached is how my heatsink setup looks like. The right side is the cpu and the left is gpu. Thanks you.

Hey, what's the overall consensus on this so far? The reviews on amazon seem to be great and it's making seriously consider the product. I have repasted my Acer Nitro 791g with gelid gc extreme and prolimatech pk3 over the past 3 years and they both would fail within 6 months (aka temps were great but slowly climb up to crappy levels over the months). I assume this is due to the pump out effect. So IC graphite would be a game changer for me.

Alright, I fixed it. Apparently DesLock+ was part of some data encryption feature from a different AV tier than the one I'm using. I uninstalled ESET fully and reinstalled it and the problem seems to be gone. Thank you so much again for all your help!

I don't have that software installed. Apparently the process of the same name running under taskmanager links back to the ESET AV folder. I'm not sure why but apparently it's from there. I'll post on their forums and see what they think of this. But thank you so much nonetheless, this has been VERY helpful! I'll make sure to post back here with the results, in case anyone else also suffers from this.

I keep getting this error: FINDSTR: Cannot open *.sys

Alright that easy, thanks. I attached an image of the output.

Hi, thanks for replying, @AresKrieger, this problem was before the April update, but like I said, I managed to get a week atleast before things got really bad. But at this point it's just down right ridiculous as the heavy pagefiling is hitting my SSD hard unnecessarily. @Tabs, could please guide me in using poolmon? It's in the windows driver kit which I installed before in my search for an answer but I never really figured out how to use it. PS: it's not merely my paged pool being high (reaching as high as 7-8gb), my committed simply runs out at 31.9GB and thats when it hangs and crashes. Also, I'd appreciate it if you guys look at the zip, I assure if it was obvious what was eating my RAM I wouldn't have come here. Nothing is eating the ram, literally nothing stands out. The ram usage doesn't even add up.

Hi,I'm running the latest April update 1803 on my Acer nitro vn-791g. My problem is that my committed memory and paged pool climb up after 2-3 days of my laptop being turned on (with sleep mode at night). This reaches a point where the system hangs, browsing tabs crash repetitively and then it BSODs or force restarts. I have only noticed the problem recently but for some reason I've always had relatively high ram usage (50%) even when there are no open programs. However, this is only apparent when the system has being left on for some time. Cold reboots yield 35-40% RAM usage initially. Recently as mentioned, it became so severe that I cannot keep my system turned on for more than 3 days at best, before it crashes or I restart it. It's becoming super frustrating and I can't figure out what could be causing the huge memory. My network card is a qualcomm QCa61x4 since I heard network drivers might be a problem but I switched across drivers and that made no difference. I'm attaching taskmanager screenshots in a zip file of the problem and a cold reboot right after to see the difference.Thank you. High ram plus cold boot after.zip