TLDR:
Overheating laptop - repasted but didnt help a lot, any suggestions?
Hey, i recently purchased this laptop, slightly used, as a display model.
When I got the laptop, it was overheating a lot, so i took it apart, cleaned the fans, there was almost no built up dust, repasted the cpu and gpu with thermal kryonaut.
This did not help at all, the temps stayed around 92-98c where the components would throttle.
So I thought maybe i put too much paste, I got arctic mx4 and tried it again today, also replaced the vram thermal pads, but now im running cs, and i've already hit 94 degrees on the cpu. It does seem to be staying a little bit lower than before, at least hasnt hit 98 yet which it would basically immedately before, but i read about people getting 40 idle and 70-80 max on the same laptop after repasting.
Would you maybe have any suggestions for me?
My laptop is on the table, i placed some spare pci brackets under it so it can intake air, this had no effect.
I dont wanna try liquid metal, and throttlestop... Nothing else than disabling boost frequency helped in any way or seemed to work at all.
This is the laptop:
https://www.amazon.com/Acer-Predator-Helios-GeForce-PH317-51-787B/dp/B073PY18CN