heat question m11x r3 for diablo 3

Hi guys just got a couple questios for those users who play diablo 3 on their m11x r3. At first i used to get decent temps, and under heavy fights, it would get to 83 degrees roughly. Now i find that it easily goes to almost 90 degrees, and under heavy fights with alot of things going on on the screen, it drops to 5-10 fps. I also never felt the heat until now. Even normal things such as browsing the internet and watching youtube videos get it to almost 66-70 degrees easily for the GPU. My cpu doesnt usually go passsed 78 - 80 degrees. Do i need to reapply the thermal paste? I am not good with taking these things apart, so is it hard to do this? Any easy guides out there? Also, does applying thermal paste to the GPU void the warranty, cuz i have about 5 months left on it as well!

 

There's not alot you can do to these which will void the warranty, short of taking a soldering iron and physically removing the integrated CPU/GPU.

I don't think you need a repaste, sounds to me if you were to disassemble your R3 you would find some dust stuck between the fan & rear exhaust which could be affecting temps. Can of compressed air in short controlled bursts (don't want to bend any components) through the rear exhaust should get rid of it, then just try to pick out all the dust through the matted fan cover.

 

I have a similar issue with my M11xR2

Are you playing on a heat dissipating surface? Try it with a cooler fan pad underneath. It will still get hot but it shouldn't be in the high 80s.

 

+1, cleaning out the dust would help if there is any, and using a laptop cooler or something along those lines would help a lot. My R1 ran a lot cooler using one of those.

 

Here are some troubleshooting steps to determine if the computer is actually overheating and also some ways to prevent it. Re-pasting might work just fine as well