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[insanet4co]

Hi,

I purchased an Acer Aspire 5560g laptop about 3 years ago. This model had an AMD A6-3420M with a HD 6520g integrated and a hd 7470m dedicated.  I use the laptop on a table with no restrictions to the airflow. I am not sure when the laptop started to have issues with heat, but now it has become a real problem. The cpu and gpu idle both at around 75C and under load peak at around 94-95C. I have disabled the 7470m to see if the temps would change, but nothing has happened. hwinfo reports the same temps as before. The laptop smells like burning plastic when at load. The laptop is not overclocked, and the drivers are all up to date. I have replaced the thermal compound and blown dust out of the fan and heatsink. I am using a Cooler Master Notepal U Stand laptop cooler. Over time, the performance has decreased and the temperatures increased. At this point it is almost unusable when at load because of the keyboard and touchpad getting to hot to touch. I have tried underclocking the cpu and it lowers the temps slightly, but I don't want to affect performance too much, as the laptop cpu is only at 1.5ghz. Is there any other way to reduce temperatures without hurting my performance too much?

Thanks

[techguru]

2 possiblities..one you didn't redo the thermal compound properly or...another possibility..something could be running in the background that is making the cpu run constantly

run the kaspersky av tool

http://www.kaspersky.com/antivirus-removal-tool?form=1

and malwarebytes.. (with a fan maybe blowing over the laptop)

once once those are done...I would check the thermal compound again...arctic silver 5 or mx

[HmmR]

1. check any unwanted app running in background

 

2 underclock it

 

3 sorry bro i think u ran the last bit of life in that laptop(try the above methods it will definitely help)

[insanet4co]

1. check any unwanted app running in background

 

2 underclock it

 

3 sorry bro i think u ran the last bit of life in that laptop(try the above methods it will definitely help)

 

 

2 possiblities..one you didn't redo the thermal compound properly or...another possibility..something could be running in the background that is making the cpu run constantly

run the kaspersky av tool

http://www.kaspersky.com/antivirus-removal-tool?form=1

and malwarebytes.. (with a fan maybe blowing over the laptop)

once once those are done...I would check the thermal compound again...arctic silver 5 or mx

Used both antivirus and malwarebytes. I replaced the thermal compound with silver 5 again. Not really much change, but thanks for the help anyways. 

[techguru]

how could you possibly change the thermal compound that fast....your doing something wrong

[techguru]

it would take me like 1 hour to take it apart properly...clean off all the old crap...reapply properly and reassemble

[insanet4co]

it would take me like 1 hour to take it apart properly...clean off all the old crap...reapply properly and reassemble

The laptop has all it's screws already taken out. All I really have to do is unscrew the heatsink.

[STRMfrmXMN]

Hi,

I purchased an Acer Aspire 5560g laptop about 3 years ago. This model had an AMD A6-3420M with a HD 6520g integrated and a hd 7470m dedicated.  I use the laptop on a table with no restrictions to the airflow. I am not sure when the laptop started to have issues with heat, but now it has become a real problem. The cpu and gpu idle both at around 75C and under load peak at around 94-95C. I have disabled the 7470m to see if the temps would change, but nothing has happened. hwinfo reports the same temps as before. The laptop smells like burning plastic when at load. The laptop is not overclocked, and the drivers are all up to date. I have replaced the thermal compound and blown dust out of the fan and heatsink. I am using a Cooler Master Notepal U Stand laptop cooler. Over time, the performance has decreased and the temperatures increased. At this point it is almost unusable when at load because of the keyboard and touchpad getting to hot to touch. I have tried underclocking the cpu and it lowers the temps slightly, but I don't want to affect performance too much, as the laptop cpu is only at 1.5ghz. Is there any other way to reduce temperatures without hurting my performance too much?

Thanks

Processors don't simply get hotter as they get older. You might want to A. Replace the CPU fan and B. Get some crazy good thermal paste to put on there with the new fan. Take out the battery and run off of wall-power whenever possible.