DarkPaladin
Enthusiast
About a month ago, I decided to apply the Arctic MX 5 thermal paste to my CPU and GPU to my laptop as my laptop was over a year old at this point and the temperatures were starting to increase to noticeable differences. Thankfully, this re-paste went well and my laptop's temperatures decreased on both components to a decent level (idle temps between 30-40 degrees on both, with 60-80 maximum in high-end games).
However, while playing some games, I noticed my CPU's temperature began to increase to the point where my laptop was throttling the performance to keep it cool, resulting in stuttering during gameplay. I decided to re-apply the thermal paste and now my CPU's temperature has went completely out of control up to 50 idle and 90-100 degrees in most applications/games. I repeated this process multiple times in order to deal with issue but nothing seems to be working.
What I've tried so far:
- Monitored the temps in both HWMonitor and Speccy, revealing the CPU temps to be way too high while everything else is running cooler than usual
- Re-applying Arctic MX 5 thermal paste multiple times
- Ensuring the heatsink is fully seated on the CPU
- Purchasing thermal grizzly kryonat on Amazon to see if a different paste will provide better performance
As of right now, the only thing that seems to keep my temps low is to take the bottom cover of my laptop off and use a cooling pad to directly cool the CPU from below. However, this bizarrely causes my FPS to drops in-game so it isn't really a solution.
I was hoping to ask for some advice here before contemplating an RMA (1 parts warranty expired with 2 additional years of labour warranty+ combined with COVID + Christmas delivery times mean it'll probably take 6+ weeks to get my laptop returned). I'd appreciate literally any advice here to get my temps down.
Specs:
However, while playing some games, I noticed my CPU's temperature began to increase to the point where my laptop was throttling the performance to keep it cool, resulting in stuttering during gameplay. I decided to re-apply the thermal paste and now my CPU's temperature has went completely out of control up to 50 idle and 90-100 degrees in most applications/games. I repeated this process multiple times in order to deal with issue but nothing seems to be working.
What I've tried so far:
- Monitored the temps in both HWMonitor and Speccy, revealing the CPU temps to be way too high while everything else is running cooler than usual
- Re-applying Arctic MX 5 thermal paste multiple times
- Ensuring the heatsink is fully seated on the CPU
- Purchasing thermal grizzly kryonat on Amazon to see if a different paste will provide better performance
As of right now, the only thing that seems to keep my temps low is to take the bottom cover of my laptop off and use a cooling pad to directly cool the CPU from below. However, this bizarrely causes my FPS to drops in-game so it isn't really a solution.
I was hoping to ask for some advice here before contemplating an RMA (1 parts warranty expired with 2 additional years of labour warranty+ combined with COVID + Christmas delivery times mean it'll probably take 6+ weeks to get my laptop returned). I'd appreciate literally any advice here to get my temps down.
Specs:
| Chassis & Display | Octane Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080) + G-Sync |
| Processor (CPU) | Intel® Core™ i7 Six Core Processor i7-8700k (3.7GHz) 12MB Cache |
| Memory (RAM) | 32GB Corsair 2666MHz SODIMM DDR4 (2 x 16GB) |
| Graphics Card | NVIDIA® GeForce® RTX 2080 - 8.0GB GDDR6 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1 |
| 1st Storage Drive | 2TB SEAGATE 7mm SERIAL ATA III 2.5" HARD DRIVE WITH 128MB CACHE (5,400rpm) |
| 1st M.2 SSD Drive | 250GB WD Black™ SN750 M.2 NVMe SSD (up to 3100MB/s R | 1600MB/s W) |
| Memory Card Reader | Integrated 6 in 1 Card Reader (SD /Mini SD/ SDHC / SDXC / MMC / RSMMC) |
| AC Adaptor | 1 x 330W AC Adaptor |
| Power Cable | 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead) |
| Battery | Octane Series 8 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (82WH) |
| Thermal Paste | STANDARD THERMAL PASTE FOR SUFFICIENT COOLING |
| Sound Card | Intel 2 Channel High Definition Audio + MIC/Headphone Jack |
| Bluetooth & Wireless | GIGABIT LAN & KILLER™ WIRELESS-AC 1550 M.2 GAMING 802.11AC + BLUETOOTH 5.0 |
