m11x r3 temps playing crysis 2

gents,

what sort of temps are people seeing in the r3 while gaming? Ive just applied artic silver 5 to my heat sink and cpu/gpu and it hasnt had more than a few hours so is obviously not bedded in yet, idling Im around the 50's. When the CPU doing burn test, into the high 60's, but with crysis 2 the cpu gets to 81-82 and the GPU gets to 90... is this normal or should I reapply the artcic silver in a thinner layer....


Cheers!

 

That's hot

 

Any idea what your temps were before repasting?

 

crysis 2 seems to be the only game to make the gpu get this hot. Reapplied again this time making sure was spread really thin. CPU max temp when stressing just the cpu only is around 74. Gpu stays at 45 (intelburntest). However on crysis 2, cpu gets up to 79 - 80 and stays there but gpu still gets up to 96 - any ideas? All other games just seem to get to 80-85 - should I maybe reapply using the cross/line method instead of the spread method - (maybe air bubbles by spreading or the heat sink/die arent exactly flat). Artic silver recommend spreading but other people recommend line/cross/pea method - really would like to hear from someone else with a m11xR3 who plays crysis 2?!

 

I get around 60c + temp on the R3

 

I'm sorry but there is no way you're floating in the 60's w/ the GPU during Crysis 2.

That is completely impossible.

Run OCCT for 30 minutes and check temps. I'll check it again now.

After reapplying paste I was able to get my temps down from uppper 90's to mid 80's.

 

^unless he lives in a ice cave.

 

After making some modifications to the heatsink with a dremmel tool and reapplying thermal paste I'm now down to mid 70s. I think a couple of the motherboard components actually stop the heatsink from coming down fully and evenly on the gpu.

 

dremel tool.. new R3 .. am I missing something .. those two words should never be in the same conversation at least not for a year! ;0)

 

Please fill me in?

Did you happen to take pictures? Do you think washers on the other side of the motherboard to help it tighten down to the GPU harder would help?

I was thinking about getting a squaretrade warranty because I'm afraid of NVIDIA and their famous cooked notebook gpus, that get so hot they peel off the MB.

 

I just blast my SF-19 Cooler to Max Fan and its like a blowing wind It really keeps my temp low

 

Yes I used 3 small rubber o rings to help pull the heatsink down harder - this helped a bit but due to some of the components and the heatsink seeming to get caught on them it never went down fully even. If you apply thermal past, screw down and take it off, youll notice that its thicker on one side than the other due to the uneven layering - at least this was what happened on mine. I actually had an old R2 heatsink lieing around also, and it fit's *just", but the same thing - so my best results so far have been using my old r2 heatsink which has been dremmelled to fit over the components fully ensuring a flat contact, along with orings on the backside to pull down tight. Though I did notice the new fan in the r3 pulls 0.5A wheres as the R2 fan pulls 0.35A or 0.3A so I swappeds the fans as I didnt want to be using an underpowered fan... or blow it. Anyhow all of this was because I was leaving for dubai and didnt have time to go through the usual hassle of dell warranty etc - I still have the original r3 heatsink incase I need to put it on, but the lowest temps I got on that were mid 80, now with the above method I'm downt to mid 70's maxed out with OC'ed GPU also. Much happier

 

Noob question: What does thermal paste actually do?

 

if you zoomed in on the surface of a heat sink and processor die, its not actually smooth, has lots of small cracks. its designed to fill the spaces thus creating a flat surface, and do the same on the cpu/gpu die, thus maximising contact surface area, which then maximises the efficiency of the heat dissipation unit - aka fan/heatsink combo.

 

Quote from Notebook Review on the m11x R3

"...On the inside things are significantly hotter, with the graphics card reaching up to 93°C with a full load..."

What happens when the vents get dusty, or it's a hot summer day and the a/c isn't working, or maybe you decided to use your laptop on your lap, or you ended up staying up all night trying to beat a game, or maybe since the temps fluctuate so extremely depending on what you are doing the thermal paste has become brittle over time and is no longer effective? Almost seems... like they're setting you up for failure after the standard warranty expires.

 

My gpu hangs around 70 on my r3 overclocked to 800/1600/980. 64 on the cpu.

74 in the witcher 2.

Overclocking adds about 1 degree to my temps. This is tested sitting on a flat table.