draiken

@draiken From my (short) experience with the 720QM, those temps are a pretty high. I threw everything I could at mine before my 920XM arrived and I don't think I ever saw it break 75C. A repaste will definitely help your GPUs. Mine hit 110C when I first received my R2 (which I assume is the reason the guy was selling it) but after a repasting I sit around 75C, OC'd and playing BF3. No laptop cooler, just propping up the back of the laptop.

Thanks, Actually I'm waiting for some new thermal pads to arrive and will be changing them and doing a re-paste... it appears I botched it the first time... temps seem stable enough so I can wait.

Yeah 77C seems a bit high for only ~30% CPU utilization. What CPU is that, 920xm?

Nop its an i7-720QM. I'm seriously considering doing a re-paste of both graphic cards and CPU tomorrow. I took some pictures of the temps after playing Mass Effect 3 for a while, but left them at home... one of the GPUs stays in the 50s-60s range, while the other shoots up to 85C. I believe I did not apply enough paste on the second GPU, and also my CPU temps compared to other posts on the forum seem still a bit high.

Hi, finally got some pictures from the temps, I still think my CPU temps are a bit high... This pictures were taken just after Boot (IDLE_A) and the others after having the laptop on for about an hour or two, just watching avi's on the TV via HDMI. Please let me know what you think, and if I need to re-do the re-pasting of my CPU. Keep in mind I do not have a Laptop cooler.

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I downloaded Trixx yesterday, and has the option to disable ULPS, fans are slower across the board (while watching videos... no time for gaming yet), and temps stay the same: High 60s for CPU, high 40s and low 50s for GPU (all °C), will post pictures tomorrow I promise.

You are welcome and it is nice to see you active on Tech Inferno Draiken

Thanks, I've been on NBR for a few years, but most of the guides that were posted there, are now only here... and I find the M17x R2 users here more helpful. Thank you guys

Thanks mw86, I will look into the issue and update the thread

Not sure if this will help, but sometimes one card on my M18X seems to get stuck at low clocks while in game, firing up trixx and adding an OC (Even if it's like 5mhz) fixes it.

- Man, I'm not familiar with OC tools, can you provide a link for trixx?

Actually the same also happens to me. The secondary GPU runs a little hotter. The difference isn't that big, on the full load I think GPU0 is ~72 C, GPU1 around 75-77C. This was every since I repasted, but I actually haven't checked before.

In your case however, it seems GPU1 was running at higher clocks for whatever reason. In my case they both ran at about 100% utilization with 700/1000MHz stock clocks.

- unreal, I was reffering to the GPU clocks, not the temps, my cards allways run different by a few degrees... even after re-pasting.

it's weird indeed, iirc this shouldn't be happening.

Are you running the latest version of HWiNFO (although i doubt the problem is there it's better to always run the latest) ? Try running furmark for a couple of minutes and see how the clocks are then ?

- Yes double checked also tried the 32-bit version and it gave me the same results. Also if I do not open GPU-Z before launching HWInfo the monitors on the second GPU do not show... and GPU-Z states stock clocks for both my cards 700Mhz for GPU and 1000Mhz for Memory... strange indeed, could this be driver related? I'm running AMDs 12.4

Awesome, I just got some Arctic Silver 5 (not many options to choose from where I live) and will be performing this mod today or tomorrow... I have one issue, I'm using HWInfo 3.95-1600 (latest) and it will not show the sensors and temps of my GPU #1, it just shows GPU #0, Is there a setting I need to change?

Added after 5 minutes:

Please delete my previous Post, just as I clicked "Post" the info appeared on the sensor window. I'm attaching it. I have one question: Why are the clocks for GPU and Memory so different between GPU 0 and GPU 1?

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