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    Asus G1S-A1 Heat issues?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by BlackYoshi, Apr 21, 2008.

  1. BlackYoshi

    BlackYoshi Notebook Consultant

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    When doing intensive things with the GPU, how hot does your card get? RivaTuner is telling me 90+ degrees celsius, no matter what I use it with, and I know that is far, far too hot. Something has to be wrong with a fan or something, right?
     
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  2. ClearSkies

    ClearSkies Well no, I'm still here..

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    No. 90C gpu in a notebook, at load, is normal -- especially when you're pushing it heavily. At idle or when just surfing, well, that's another story for another time :).

    You could clean out the radiator fins and fan if you've never done, that could help a bit.
     
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  3. Kaze105

    Kaze105 Notebook Consultant

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    Also i suggest that you lift the back end of the notebook as someone else told me about..

    Lift up the back like a 2 inches or so with a book or something, and it does cool it down quite a bit...

    You could always gete a notebook cooler fan too if you have the money for it
     
    Kaze105, Apr 21, 2008
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  4. eleron911

    eleron911 HighSpeedFreak

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    The G1S are notorious for higher temps. 90C is pretty normal for you, some users hit 105C often.
    The card can take it, although I don`t know about the notebook itself.
    A good cooling pad or notebook cooler and undervolting the cpu might decrease the heat a bit.
     
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  5. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    But cleaning the heatsink as ClearSkies suggested may still not be a bad idea if the notebook is older than a few months. :)
     
    E.B.E., Apr 21, 2008
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  6. BlackYoshi

    BlackYoshi Notebook Consultant

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    I'd just need to do some unscrewing and hit it with a compressed air can, right?
     
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  7. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    It's better if you access the heatsink directly. If you're lucky, the fan is accessible via a panel on the bottom of the notebook. Look for that panel, remove it, remove the FAN, and you should see the heatsink ventilation grill/fins. Clean both the fan and the heatsink fins with q-tips or something similar.

    This only works on some computers, I'm not sure the G1 is one of them. On other computers it's more complicated.

    There is a guide on cleaning an ASUS computer following the outline I gave above, on the Info Booth.
     
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  8. Kaze105

    Kaze105 Notebook Consultant

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    I did this and my comp temp dropped ENORMOUSLY..

    I do believe around 20C
     
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  9. E.B.E.

    E.B.E. NBR Procrastinator

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    Sure, if the heatsink was clogged the drop can be as high as that. It's always a good idea to regularly clean your notebook.
     
    E.B.E., Apr 22, 2008
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