Overheating and now low frame rates. Help please.

[mikedahlstrom]

I'm a proud owner of a g73jh laptop. Love it, has great to me for over a couple years. A couple times lately it has shut off during gaming and assumed it was over heating. I have a targus laptop cooler pad that I use under the laptop. The other day it shut off during Diablo 3 playing and last night when I loaded up Diablo the fps was so low it was unplayable I turned settings down and still choppy. I am wondering if the overheating finally cause the gpu or cpu to take a crap. I ran furmark and got a score of 1352 with no aa on. How can I test the component that maybe cause it the problems. Any help would be great. Thanks.
BTW the gpu is a ATI mobility Radeon 5870 hd.

[r0wnin]

Canned air and blow out your vents?

[mikedahlstrom]

I did that. I'm wondering if I should take it apart to try to clear it out more. Or maybe something with more force like my air compressor.?

[mikedahlstrom]

Also I'm curious if my gpu or cpu couldn't be failing and how can I test. What programs do people use? Thanks.

[r0wnin]

Does your internal fan spin?

[mikedahlstrom]

Yes and a good amount of heat is coming out the back of the laptop

[PowerOver9K]

Download HWMonitor and check your temps, http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html

[mikedahlstrom]

I'll post temps tonight

[PowerOver9K]

mikedahlstrom@gmail.com wrote:
I'll post temps tonight

You can log to a txt file the temps and then play a game and see how high it goes.