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    Out of Warranty Repair of Overheating Problem

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Zyklon, Jul 13, 2011.

  1. Zyklon

    Zyklon Notebook Enthusiast

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    My 2 and a 1/2 year M1530 is still suffering from occasional overheat crashes when running video games. I bought myself a NZXT Cyro LX laptop cooling fan but even at max fan speed I experience shut downs. Even at idle I'm getting CPU temperatures of mid-50s and GPU temperatures of mid-60s.

    Just wondering since my warranty is over how much would it cost to ask for Dell to replace my mobo and heat-sink to alleviate the problem. Should I even bother or should I maybe consider replacing the stock thermal compound if it'll even help? I clear the inside of dust pretty often.

    Thanks, I'm a student so I don't really have the budget to buy a new laptop.
     
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    BobTheSniper Notebook Consultant

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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    I would look to just cleaning out your cooling system. If you have an Nvidia chip, unfortunately it is part of the massive defective Nvidia chip scandal. Also the M1530's crappy cooling system doesn't help, 1 dinky heatpipe for a 35 watt CPU + DGPU is never a good idea. I would remove the heatsink assembly, do a good repaste job, blow out all the dust/crud in the heatfans/fan and see if that helps.
     
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  4. Zyklon

    Zyklon Notebook Enthusiast

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    Alright thanks for the suggestions. I'm going to go buy myself some thermal paste. Just a quick question about applying it. Do I need to spread it or just place a dot of it and press the heatsink on? Oh I'm thinking of getting OCZ Freeze one, cause its the cheapest one.
     
    Zyklon, Jul 13, 2011
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    morfmedia Notebook Geek

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    Read some guides online, you need to spread it out pretty thin with a plastic ATM style card...
     
    morfmedia, Jul 14, 2011
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