optimus series laptop

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finaldj

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Specs are from the 2014 version of the laptop and bought it in June 2014

Chassis & Display Optimus Series: 17.3" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-4710MQ (2.50GHz) 6MB
Memory (RAM) 8GB KINGSTON SODIMM DDR3 1600MHz (1 x 8GB)
Graphics Card NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 860M - 2.0GB DDR5, 640 CUDA Cores - DirectX® 11

I had the laptop about a year and had to open it up and apply my own thermal paste as temps when idle were about 60/65c and 90 when gaming.

I'm now just short of 2 years old and it shut down on me today so booted it back up and had a look at what speccy was say....cpu was idle about 80c and so was mobo temp.

So I went out and bought some cooler master E1 ic essential paste and give the cpu and gpu another coat and cleaned the fan vent and fan but there was next to no dust as don't use the laptop much.

Temp is now see screen shot.

Just wondering what idle temps should be. thermal paste hasn't been on long about 15 mins after taking this screen shot
 

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Sling23

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Hi finaldj,

Thank you for getting in contact with us regarding your system.

I can confirm that your system now seems to be running at the normal expected temperatures. If you would like us to check over your system please do not hesitate to contact us directly, however I do not think you have anything to worry about with these temperatures.

Once again thank you for contacting us regarding this

Sling23
 
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finaldj

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Just wondering if 45c is considered a normal temp when idle then what would you consider a gaming temp as even though I have put thermal compound on I'm still seeing 70c+

Twice now I have had to put my own on 3 times if you inc the one I paid for you to apply in the space of 2 years I'm not saying there is a fault with the laptop maybe poor case design. it's not down to poor thermal application at least not by me. it definitely has put me off buying a laptop from here again.

I can build my own desktops and think I'll stick to that as it has been the first time in years I have had to do this with a laptop and I've had a few over the years never having this problem.

I still have the £5 extra cover but £35 postage costs to send it in for you to look at the thermal paste just might as well apply it myself. I'll see if it does this again in the near future
 
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finaldj

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Well I did a full norton scan and this was the CPU temp and mobo temp.

Going to do some gaming tomorrow for a few hours and see if the thermal paste I applied is holding ok speccy test.jpg

Test was from Norton doing a full scan. hopefully gaming will hold out ok.

The 2nd HD could do with holes in the chassis as often gets above 55c I noticed when taking the back cover off and running the laptop with the zalman coolers 220mm fan it drops the HD temp down to 39c

thanks for the links though come in handy
 
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