Laptop overheating

TheKylieBoy · June 15, 2017

Hello

I purchased a refurbished Acer Aspire E 15 E5-551G-T0Q9 two days ago, and i noticed severe drops in the clock speed whenever i load up a game.

This is probably due to thermal throttling, as according to HWmonitor my CPU is at 114C when idle.

Any ideas on what i could do?

JakeNTech · June 15, 2017

23 minutes ago, TheKylieBoy said:

Hello

I purchased a refurbished Acer Aspire E 15 E5-551G-T0Q9 two days ago, and i noticed severe drops in the clock speed whenever i load up a game.

This is probably due to thermal throttling, as according to HWmonitor my CPU is at 114C when idle.

Any ideas on what i could do?

Re-apply the thermal paste like this:

To replace the thermal pasteI recommend the following:

1- Get some arctic silver 5 , Its the best I have found.

2- Once you have taken the heat sink off, put some TIM remover onto some tissue, toilet paper will be fine, and gently wipe over the CPU and GPU/North bridge and the heatsink.

3- Wait 2-3 minutes

4- Wipe all the surfaces you have just cleaned with a material like your t-shirt

5- Apply a line of thermal paste in a parallel line to the longest edge on the CPU, GPU/north bridge in the middle of the die

6- Spred it out, you want a thin layer over the whole die.

7- Place the heat sink down and wait.

8- Put the screws back in a star like pattern, don't tighten them too much until they are all in

9- Make sure that it is all tight and reassemble you Mac

This is the way I have found to get the best results. Hope it helps.

You should try to replace the thermal paste at least once a year if your computing device is under full load a lot if not then every two years should be fine.

I would also make sure that it's not full of dust, also take the HWmonitor reading with a grain of salt, they might not be too accurate.