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Overheating and now low frame rates. Help please.

mikedahlstrom
Level 7
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.
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r0wnin
Level 7
Canned air and blow out your vents?
[Asus HERO - i7 4770k @4.3 - 32gb G.Skill Ares @2400 via XMP - Samsung 840 SSD - 660GTX in SLi]

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
Level 7
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
Level 7
Does your internal fan spin?
[Asus HERO - i7 4770k @4.3 - 32gb G.Skill Ares @2400 via XMP - Samsung 840 SSD - 660GTX in SLi]

mikedahlstrom
Level 7
Yes and a good amount of heat is coming out the back of the laptop

PowerOver9K
Level 9
Download HWMonitor and check your temps, http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html
Mobo: Rampage IV BE | CPU: i7-4930@4.5ghz Hexacore | RAM: 32GB Corsair V-Pro | GPU: 4xR9 290X Quadfire | PSU: eVGA P2 SuperNOVA 1000W\G2 850W | Chassis: NZXT Phantom 820 | Cooling: XSPC Raystorm CPU Block\4xEK 290X Block\2x Laing D5\XSPC Dual Bay Res\Phobya G-Changer 1080 External Rad\Alphacool 140UT60\XSPC AX360 | Fan Con: Lamptron CW611 | Tube: Primochill Adv. LRT Bloodshed Red | 3xCrossover 27" 2560x1440 Monitors | Build Log of Insanity

mikedahlstrom
Level 7
I'll post temps tonight

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.
Mobo: Rampage IV BE | CPU: i7-4930@4.5ghz Hexacore | RAM: 32GB Corsair V-Pro | GPU: 4xR9 290X Quadfire | PSU: eVGA P2 SuperNOVA 1000W\G2 850W | Chassis: NZXT Phantom 820 | Cooling: XSPC Raystorm CPU Block\4xEK 290X Block\2x Laing D5\XSPC Dual Bay Res\Phobya G-Changer 1080 External Rad\Alphacool 140UT60\XSPC AX360 | Fan Con: Lamptron CW611 | Tube: Primochill Adv. LRT Bloodshed Red | 3xCrossover 27" 2560x1440 Monitors | Build Log of Insanity