Aspire 7530G heat issue

4gb ram, amd athlron rm-70 dual core 2ghz, nvidia 9600m gs with mother board 9100M ,using hybrid power mode (notebook is using only motherboard or motherboard and discrete card), latest drivers.

Hello.

My laptop is 1.5 years old but since 7 monthes ago the temp goes from 65 to 80 on low power mode and from 70 to 90 on high perf mode , with only firefox and such .
Playing games(even if they're 10 years old) makes it more and more hot until it shutdown, which is a shame since it's supposed to be a "gaming" laptop :/

I bought a coolpad and used an air dust to clean the vent but nothing changed ...
Help me please , I'd really like to be able to play the games that I bought and I can't afford to buy a new computer:/

 

You can try changing the thermal paste for the cpu and gpu in your laptop that should help with the temps. Also make sure the fan is working.

 

Simple clearing my laptop from dust (7520G) made my temperatures not raise so high. I'm guessing it's the same for this particular laptop.

 

Sorry to revive an older thread. I inherited one of these machines and found the GPU was hitting 120c after not much use at desktop (not games). This made it unusable as it was throttling back performance, even browsing was affected.

I took the bottom of the laptop, took the fan out and cleared the cooling vents. This helped a tiny bit, it just ment it took a few minutes more to become unusable. I think cleared the old thermal paste of the CPU, applied artic silver 5 and noticed the GPU (Nvidia 7000m) had a thermal pad. Booting back up the CPU was cooler but GPU had the same issue.

I bought a copper shim off ebay, 2cm square, 1mm thick. Artic silver was applied to one side of the copper shim and stuck to the aluminium heatsink that connects to the copper pipe which goes to the fan and vents. The shim wasn't thick enought to stay in place on its own to I put the thermal pad back in. This was layered between the GPU and the copper shim. So from GPU, thermal pad, copper shim, artic silver 5, aluminium heatsink. This was all very snug and secure.

Running Vista desktop again (not aero, just 2D) the tempatures had dropped by 50c !!!!!!!!!!!! Even when playing videos using the GPU, using IE9 using GPU acceleration, all at once it still remained 40c cooler !

Infact it was so cool most the time the fan doesnt even come on! Only once the GPU got to about 70c does the fan come on and I've never seen it over 75c since. For good measure I also bought a Coolermaster Notepal U1 Black, this is aluminium to takes the heat out of the laptop rather than the usual plastic type. Also its vented all over and the fans can be custom mounted anywhere you like. Though given the sucess of the copper shim I've not actually used this as yet.

PS using bios 1.33, the latest I could find on Acer website.

PPS I've got a 7520G not a 7530g