Asus FA506iv Cooling

[Banhamm3r]

Hello everyone, 

 

This is my first post here, and I would like to apologize in advance if I'm posting in the wrong section. 

 

My name is Julian and i bought a relatively cheap gaming laptop, Asus TUF FA506iv. 
It comes with a Ryzen 9 4900h and a RTX 2060. 

It heats like hell and I would like to know what I can do to reduce the temps on it. 

I though about going for some "liquid metal" thermal paste and a new heatsink. 

The issue is that I cannot find a heatsink anywhere. 

Please help.  I will give you tons of kudos. 

[Levent]

3 minutes ago, Banhamm3r said:

The issue is that I cannot find a heatsink anywhere. 

Why? There wont be any aftermarket heatsinks or replacing your current one will change anything. As long as this "heats like hell" thing doesnt mean it is overheating and shutting down, there really is not much you can do about that.

[Applefreak]

2 minutes ago, Banhamm3r said:

Hello everyone, 

 

This is my first post here, and I would like to apologize in advance if I'm posting in the wrong section. 

 

My name is Julian and i bought a relatively cheap gaming laptop, Asus TUF FA506iv. 
It comes with a Ryzen 9 4900h and a RTX 2060. 

It heats like hell and I would like to know what I can do to reduce the temps on it. 

I though about going for some "liquid metal" thermal paste and a new heatsink. 

The issue is that I cannot find a heatsink anywhere. 

Please help.  I will give you tons of kudos. 

Hi, I doubt you will find a better heatsink for your laptop. Liquid metal is dangerous inside a laptop as it can run off onto the pcb while moving around, thus shorting the entire thing out. If you are still under warranty, I would not open that thing up unless you can live without it. If you wanted to replace the thermal paste, get any regular brand name thermal paste, those are all better than the stock stuff anyways (by 5C or more). 

First thing I would check though is if the laptop is clean (meaning the back where the vents are). Next step is to adust the fan speed. While gaming, the fans should spin up quite a bit. If they are not annoyingly loud, you have set them too low. Check your temps with HWinfo64. Make sure to keep the cpu temp below 85C and the GPU temp below 95C while gaming.

[D13H4RD]

Unfortunately, the FA506VI (TUF A15) is known for terrible cooling, as uncovered by Hardware Unboxed... 

 

Other than taking off the bottom cover and cutting holes into it with a dremel (and voiding your warranty), there's not much you can do. The laptop is just badly designed. 

[Banhamm3r]

On 3/6/2021 at 1:03 PM, D13H4RD said:

Unfortunately, the FA506VI (TUF A15) is known for terrible cooling, as uncovered by Hardware Unboxed... 

 

Other than taking off the bottom cover and cutting holes into it with a dremel (and voiding your warranty), there's not much you can do. The laptop is just badly designed. 

Should they be cut in a certain way or?

[D13H4RD]

10 hours ago, Banhamm3r said:

Should they be cut in a certain way or?

I personally wouldn't advise cutting holes in the bottom panel of the laptop as it voids the warranty. However...