Gaming laptop overheating

[gewoonmaarten]

Hey,

I have a gaming laptop with an i7-7700HQ and and a gtx 1070. I love the laptop, but it is running pretty hot when under load. When idling the CPU is 40-50C and under load while gaming it is most of the time 90+C and some cores 95+. I set my fans so they always do max rpm when gaming. My GPU is around 40C and under load around 70C, so I don't think the GPU is too hot. It is a few months old, so I don't think the thermal paste is bad already. I don't experience bad performance, but I just want it to stay a little bit cooler.

[D13H4RD]

Undervolt the CPU

 

Use ThrottleStop and follow the guide I linked below

https://www.notebookcheck.net/How-to-Lower-Temperatures-Stop-Throttling-and-Increase-Battery-Life-The-ThrottleStop-Guide-2017.213140.0.html

 

[Firewrath9]

7 minutes ago, gewoonmaarten said:

Hey,

I have a gaming laptop with an i7-7700HQ and and a gtx 1070. I love the laptop, but it is running pretty hot when under load. When idling the CPU is 40-50C and under load while gaming it is most of the time 90+C and some cores 95+. I set my fans so they always do max rpm when gaming. My GPU is around 40C and under load around 70C, so I don't think the GPU is too hot. It is a few months old, so I don't think the thermal paste is bad already. I don't experience bad performance, but I just want it to stay a little bit cooler.

get a laptop cooling pad, or replace the shitty stock paste with kryonaut or something high end thats not conductive.

[gewoonmaarten]

3 hours ago, Firewrath9 said:

get a laptop cooling pad, or replace the shitty stock paste with kryonaut or something high end thats not conductive.

Thanks

That's something I will try to do. I'm a bit afraid to break something, because I opened it once to clean it and it's one big mess of heatpipes in there. Plus I don't know which one is the cpu, but we will see what happens.

 

Edit: I added a picture so you can see the inside, maybe you know under which group of heatpipes the cpu is?

Edited July 21, 2018 by gewoonmaarten

[gewoonmaarten]

2 hours ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

Undervolt the CPU

 

Use ThrottleStop and follow the guide I linked below

https://www.notebookcheck.net/How-to-Lower-Temperatures-Stop-Throttling-and-Increase-Battery-Life-The-ThrottleStop-Guide-2017.213140.0.html

 

Does undervolting affect performance a lot?

[Firewrath9]

check this guide, its a different laptop but the basic concept is the same.

 

I would take off these screws and remove the heatsink (buy a good TIM before you do this, you can always return it/save it for lator.)

Then, wipe off any grey paste that you see and replace with something higher quality. (i recommend thermal Grizzly kryonaut, it is very good and non-conductive)

also replace any thermal  pad with something else thats non-electrically conductive like this: https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Cooling-3M-Performance-Electronics/dp/B07CK7Y4HC/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1532212544&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=thermal+pad&psc=1

 

[D13H4RD]

6 hours ago, gewoonmaarten said:

Does undervolting affect performance a lot?

No

[genexis_x]

Is that MSI GE Raider?

 

Undervolt CPU+GPU and do a repaste:

Spoiler

TG Kyronaut

Phobya NanoGrease Extreme

Gelid GC Extreme

Prolimatech PK3

CM MasterGel Maker Nano

 

[gewoonmaarten]

10 hours ago, Firewrath9 said:

check this guide, its a different laptop but the basic concept is the same.

 

I would take off these screws and remove the heatsink (buy a good TIM before you do this, you can always return it/save it for lator.)

Then, wipe off any grey paste that you see and replace with something higher quality. (i recommend thermal Grizzly kryonaut, it is very good and non-conductive)

also replace any thermal  pad with something else thats non-electrically conductive like this: https://www.amazon.com/Innovation-Cooling-3M-Performance-Electronics/dp/B07CK7Y4HC/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1532212544&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=thermal+pad&psc=1

 

Okay, thanks. I will try that

[gewoonmaarten]

5 hours ago, D13H4RD2L1V3 said:

No

?

[gewoonmaarten]

5 hours ago, ZM Fong said:

Is that MSI GE Raider?

 

Undervolt CPU+GPU and do a repaste:

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TG Kyronaut

Phobya NanoGrease Extreme

Gelid GC Extreme

Prolimatech PK3

CM MasterGel Maker Nano

 

Yeah it's the raider with the 512gb ssd, 16gb RAM and gtx 1070