My laptop is overheating. I have Asus Rog strix g16 2023

[elitealpha]

My cpu and GPU temps have increased after motherboard change . I have inte i7 13650 hx and rtx 4060 GPU. I called a technician and he applied thermal grizzly conductonaut ( not extreme) on my cpu and a standard thermal paste of 1-2 w/(m.k). Now my  laptop is still overheating. It reaches 98c on cpu and 86c on gpu. Please help what should I do 

 

 

 please check if  laptop interior is in good condition or corroded as the service centre changed multiple motherboards in laptop

[ElectroStingz]

Hello,

Liquid metal on the CPU is suppose to look very shiny and metallic, could be the light / angle of your photo but it seems off.

Should be similar to this / these are from my laptop, 2 months old at the time.

There appears to be 0 contact from the CPU to your heatsink, look at the heatsink area in your picture, its too dry and clean. And when you compare that to the other areas you have paste on both gpu, chips and heatsink where they make contact.

Now as to everything else, the blue paste looks dry and like it has not been touched, for a laptop of your ages and usage this should have been removed and redone.

Also the GPU paste if this is simply standard grade paste it will not hold up over time.

1) CPU paste is it liquid metal?

2) CPU paste / heatsink doesnt appear to be making good contact.

3) GPU paste needs to be something higher grade, Arctic MX6 is reasonable for a 4060

4) Blue paste is thermal putty, if not renewed it needs to be completely removed and fresh putty applied. 

Find a someone that can do this correctly or give it a go yourself?

[elitealpha]

1.Yes cpu is liquid metal, thermal grizzly conductonaut standard version instead of extreme has been used.

2.The technician said that the thermal putty is enough and not dry. Also I can see there is no contact between cpu and heatsink. 

What should I do now

[ElectroStingz]

Did it have the 4 screws on the CPU part when you opened it as there is no way for this not to make contact?

For the thermal putty, if it cannot be smudged, its dry.

[elitealpha]

Yes it has 4 screws on cpu part. 

I will ask technician to reapply thermal putty.can you tell me the name of the blue thermal putty .

I will consider using mx6 on my GPU.

Also my heatsink look less shiny than your heatsink. Should I be worried as heatsink may be corroded or not

[ElectroStingz]

I do not know which one is standard ASUS spec but Thermal Grizzly also have.

https://www.thermal-grizzly.com/en/tg-putty/s-tg-p-a-030

Your heatsink just needs a good clean, it appears the technician tried to remove the old paste with a cleaning wipe so its all over it.

Another thing to consider, thermal putty will set solid over time so if multiple layers have stacked it can cause the heatsink to rise if it doesn't align exactly to how it was. As it's open now you should simply clean the heatsink, remove all traces and get it looking like new. (use thermal paste remover / cleaning wipes)

This works extremely well, usually can be found in pack of 10... https://www.arctic.de/en/MX-Cleaner/ACTCP00033A

Once you have a clean heatsink (no paste, no putty), see if it makes contact, that way you will know if the old stuff was causing the poor contact. (obviously don't do anything else like power it as you would need everything else redone / cleaned)