Chastity's Repaste Experience

[ieatrocks]

bios 211 looks like it will be all well and good.

I'm more interested in the fact that people are getting drops of 20c on 30% fan speed instead of 100%.

This is either wrong, or the stock thermal paste is actually doing more harm than good. These results are incredible, almost too good to be true.

[Jody]

bios 211 looks like it will be all well and good.

I'm more interested in the fact that people are getting drops of 20c on 30% fan speed instead of 100%.

This is either wrong, or the stock thermal paste is actually doing more harm than good. These results are incredible, almost too good to be true.

I can tell you that it dropped my temps a great deal. I just did it tonight and haven't played any games, yet. (I've been dinking around in the forums all night )

It sure made a difference. The air coming out of the GPU exhaust vent is a lot warmer than it used to be. I'm going to guess that a lot of people have a decent paste job on their factory GPU. If you can run furmark for 30 minutes and stay at or below 90C, you probably won't see much difference in a repaste. If you are over a hundred degrees celsius on a furmark bench, it's probably worth the work if you are comfortable taking the entire laptop apart. Keep in mind that I couldn't run a furmark bench for four minutes without a thermal shutdown. I ran one for forty-five minutes and topped out at 88C. Bouncing between 87 and 88 after twenty minutes and never changed after that. This was in a room that is about 26C or 27C.

[fritzer]

haha 109 in FFIV benchmark and thermal shutdowns i need to repaste... SIGH
ordered IC 7 diamond

will do it this weekend i guess

[HeavenCry]

Good for you Jody, nice repaste!

[PulsatingQuasar]

This 30% fan thing isn't true. The measuring tools can only detect 30% and 100% but the GPU fan does go gradually up in speed. You can hear this clearly if you have no hearing problems.

[fritzer]

Hellcry still no solutions for your comp??

mine is going nuts now. more and more GSODs, idling at 78-80 and shutting off at benchmarks due to heat if it doesnt GSOD.

i know how you feel. i could have built an insane desktop for the 2grand i wasted on this paperweight

[ieatrocks]

This 30% fan thing isn't true. The measuring tools can only detect 30% and 100% but the GPU fan does go gradually up in speed. You can hear this clearly if you have no hearing problems.

I have no hearing problems and the sound difference is quite a lot.
When hwinfo says it jumps from 30% to 100% it sure sounds like it is doing exactly that.

When it goes from 100% to 30% it also has a huge drop in noise and vibration.
Like I said, I can flutter the furmark on and off to hover my temps around 96c and notice this happens over and over.

Anyone furmarking after a repate want to run hwinfo and confirm the fan never gets up to jet engine speed?

[slamming]

i want to repaste but dont have any idea how to take apart the system.. Any guides?

[Jody]

Good for you Jody, nice repaste!

Thanks man! I don't know what conclusions we can draw. It seems to me that the GSOD will be some kind of specific hardware flaw in the GPU or the RAM. The overheating is easily fixed, but a repaste does nothing for GSOD.

I just upgraded to the 211 BIOS. My fans run more but it does not change the temperature in Furmark at all. I got exactly the same temp (85C) after half an hour. It does reduce temps a few degrees for normal operation. Once you max out the GPU's workload, it goes to its highest temperature and stays there. I'm thinking that for everyday work and gaming, 211 will be good but it won't help your benchmarks.

[dean_woa]

Thanks man! I don't know what conclusions we can draw. It seems to me that the GSOD will be some kind of specific hardware flaw in the GPU or the RAM. The overheating is easily fixed, but a repaste does nothing for GSOD.

Hi, Jody, did you try to OC your GPU? xSOD seems gone from my g73 since i OC it to 705/1100.