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Ridiculous Temps With New Thermal Paste

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Yeah, and bad design on ASUS' part.  Instead of putting the components facing up where heat rises, they're mounted on the bottom, facing down, where the heat just sits there; which is what I think the majority of the issue was. The casing itself didn't have any kind of airflow, which also presented an issue. Today I got a different brand of thermal pads, which worked well for a couple of minutes and I had it idling at 50c (which I was really fucking excited about). After loading up Garrys Mod as a test, it went up into the 100's and didn't go back down. Which is why I think your theory is correct.

 

However, before I threw it out today, I decided to run it until it literally almost caught on fire. I had the temps climb up to 170c (338 F) before I started to smell burning plastic for shits and giggles. Then I salvaged the parts and dumped it for the next trash pickup.

 

I learned a lesson though. DONT BUY A FUCKING LAPTOP FOR GAMES.

Holy fuck, I thought you guys were joking about the "house fire" thing, that's craycray!

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Tiddy-bits:

Don't most CPUs have safeties that automatically shuts down the system once a certain temperature is reached?  Or is that a relatively new feature?


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Don't most CPUs have safeties that automatically shuts down the system once a certain temperature is reached?  Or is that a relatively new feature?

CPUs, yes. GPUs, no. At least mine didn't.


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