Bedeker Snyman
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I have a Acer Predator Helios 300 with a i7 9750H and a Nvidia GTX 1660Ti. The Laptop is about 1 year old and the last month I had overheating problems when playing games. When playing Warzone CPU temps hit 94 and GPU 88. The laptop always got hot but nothing like this.
As any guy with a gaming laptop with heating problems I bought a cooling pad. This didn't help to improve thermals and thus my search to cool my Laptop continued. Blowing out the fans with high pressure air also did not work. At last I decided to take of the heat pipes and apply new thermal paste. When inspecting the fans I saw a small buildup of dust and hair between the fan and heat sink, no high pressure air will be able to blow this out with out taking of the heat pipes and fans. Lastly I applied new thermal paste and covered everything back up. This is the result when playing Warzone CPU temp dropped from 94 to 79 and GPU dropped from 88 to 69.
Thermals are now better than when I got the laptop. Better thermals also means better FPS, my average FPS increased by 10.
My first attempt of apply thermal paste only saw the GPU temps drop and not the CPU. I figured that I had applied to much thermal paste and when I redid it with less the thermals dropped. Thus to much thermal paste can also be bad for LAPTOP temps.
IN SHORT what to do with a overheating laptop.
As any guy with a gaming laptop with heating problems I bought a cooling pad. This didn't help to improve thermals and thus my search to cool my Laptop continued. Blowing out the fans with high pressure air also did not work. At last I decided to take of the heat pipes and apply new thermal paste. When inspecting the fans I saw a small buildup of dust and hair between the fan and heat sink, no high pressure air will be able to blow this out with out taking of the heat pipes and fans. Lastly I applied new thermal paste and covered everything back up. This is the result when playing Warzone CPU temp dropped from 94 to 79 and GPU dropped from 88 to 69.
Thermals are now better than when I got the laptop. Better thermals also means better FPS, my average FPS increased by 10.
My first attempt of apply thermal paste only saw the GPU temps drop and not the CPU. I figured that I had applied to much thermal paste and when I redid it with less the thermals dropped. Thus to much thermal paste can also be bad for LAPTOP temps.
IN SHORT what to do with a overheating laptop.
- Clean Fans and Heat sink Thoroughly
- Apply new Thermal paste (Or get a professional to do it)
- The amount of thermal paste makes a difference
- Buy a cooling pad after doing all of this.