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    MSI Cooling Upgrades

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by eggscrambler, Dec 7, 2017.

  1. eggscrambler

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    Hi all,

    I've just bought my first MSI Laptop - GE72MVR 7RG, and whilst so far I am in love, I would like to take some precautions to ensure it lasts! To cut things short, my temps thus far are nothing to be worried about at the moment; 86°C and 81°C on the CPU and GPU respectively whilst heavy gaming.

    I would like to see these temps drop below 80 if possible and was wandering if any of you guys have any previous experience with cooling these laptops. I have already undervolted the CPU by -.120V, but this didn't give the wonderful result I was hoping for. Next, I was thinking of repasting, but not sure if this is worth it with a new laptop? I will also be modifying my current laptop pad with 3 120mm case fans to push more air into the laptop, and will keep you guys posted on results.

    TL;DR - any advice on cooling this small beast!

    Thank you :)
     
    eggscrambler, Dec 7, 2017
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    Maleko48 Notebook Deity

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    Maleko48, Dec 7, 2017
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    Ah lovely stuff, cheers mate!
     
    eggscrambler, Dec 8, 2017
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    You are doing great! :)
    You can definitely do more to lower the temperature but it will be difficult to bring it down to below 80C with full load due to limited thermal capacity.
     
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    Go for a re-paste man. I re-pasted my GS73VR and the cpu went from 92*c to 83*c and with a -150mv undervolt it's now at 73*c running prime95 and heaven together. The GPU stayed roughly the same at 80*c though with an overclock of +225 core and +400 mem.

    Edit: I used Gelid Extreme for the thermal compound.
     
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    Ah lovely stuff, cheers! Was just looking at doing a liquid metal repaste, but not sure if I trust myself not to fry it!
     
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    Update: I’ve just undervolted the GPU, and the temps have gone down around 5 degrees. Now they hover around low to mid 70s. Can post the graph for anyone interested
     
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