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Overheating issues with laptop card

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peppermints

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My friend is having some seemingly serious heat issues with his laptop. He has a 9700GT and while playing COD4 he can play fine for the first couple of minutes with above 100fps but after that it drops down to a consistent 8 or 10fps.

Monitoring his GPU temps it's at about 105 C and idle it hovers around 70 C.

Any ideas what could be causing this/solutions to fix it?

Asus G50v is the laptop model.
 
Dust. If the laptop is older, or used on top of carpet a lot, it likely has dust buildup in it.

Use compressed air and (with the laptop OFF) blow air back in the exhaust vent in short bursts. You don't want to blow the air into the fan intake as that won't do a good job at dislodging the built-up dust. The dust layers on the fin edges so blowing the air backwards pushes the dust away from the fins.

If you're feeling adventurous, you could pop open the laptop and apply fresh, better thermal goop. Taking apart a laptop isn't anything like a desktop though, so keep that in mind.
 
with temperature like that, yeah. Failing GPU won't just get real hot.... however, getting it real hot like that a lot can lead to it failing so I suggest cleaning it out soon 😉
 
Clean dust + elevate it a tad (raise back end 1/4 or more), or a notebook cooler could help
 
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