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  1. An update to this thread: Having moved to Marseille, France. I was able to buy some decent thermal paste, a tube of arctic cooling mx-4. Did a repaste, and that really did the trick. My temps are quite good, about 38c average for the gpu on idle and 45 cpu on idle, and 65-70c and 75-80 respectively. Which isn't amazing, but it's not overheating at least.
  2. That's how much i used for the gpu, and for cpu I used a very thin line, the same quantity as on the gpu probably.
  3. I really hope waiting for the curing time will actually help with the temps, as my idle temps are alright, 40c gpu and 45-50c cpu and my gpu temps on load are alright ~75 but my cpu temps on load can get to 98c... don't know if it's only a temp spike and goes back down, but this is what i got with hwinfo, while playing farcry 3.
  4. 6 beeps means video card failure, but I can't help you more than that, sorry, I only know what it means...
  5. Mine's simple enough, but finding a background was one hell of a task.
  6. What about this? GE uses dual piezo jets to keep a Core i7 laptop cool, play a merry tune (hands-on video)
  7. Not sure, I've always wondered though. But as for your throttling problem, I think that you can change the throttling temp on nvidia inspector, not sure where I got that information though, and I'm not sure with which drivers that was done, and I cannot confirm it as I have an R1. But I recall having seen that on another forum, not mentioning the name as I'm not sure how the admins feel about that. P.S.: As I said, I'm not sure at all, I just think I read that on another forum, so you should just check for yourself as you've got nothing to lose doing so.
  8. <strike></strike><strike>So my computer suddenly crashed when running a benchmark, and it restarted... And now the gpu isn't detected...</strike> Fixed, so if someone could answer the question shown above I would be very grateful.
  9. @Superjoe I have, but usually A03 has better temp performance because the fan kicks on even at low temps, but I have an a08 unlocked vmod bios @Suoah There are lots of electronic shops, I'm not saying we live in the middle ages, but most of them only sell pre-built computers and external drives etc. but not computer components, and those that do sell computer components are all packed into malls, but they don't have any known thermal paste, only some random chinese/taiwanese stuff. And this one is the better one from the others i've seen, the others are sold in little sachets and don't exactly look like high-end stuff. But it sure is strange, I mean they sell all the latest components, but they don't have decent thermal paste.... Anyway, I've done the repaste, first time I did it really bad, and temps were much worse, did it again, and I can see that less is actually more when it comes to thermal paste. But anyway temps aren't any better... So is there a curing time for ceramic based thermal paste? I hope so, because temps are now alright, but not better than what i was getting after removing the optical drive. And btw... Dell does a horrible job with their thermal paste.. it was like all over the chip... and it's stuck on some of the pins, and I can't clean them well because i'm afraid that I would damage them. Oh and my first repaste was a nightmare... I damaged the touchpad flex cable, and I thought I had to buy a new one, but I cut the damaged part and now it works... I almost had a heart attack.
  10. Lol, that's reassuring... Well I guess It will be better than the stock one, and anyway I can always get the better paste when I move to Marseille in a month Thanks then
  11. Ok, so I have finally found some thermal paste, branded ZP Heatsink Compound. And it's "specs" are: Thermal Conductivity: >1.22W/m.k Thermal Resistance: <0.201°C-in²/w High thermal conductivity, low bleed, stable And it comes in the form of a plastic syringe with a white acrylic glue-like substance. Should I use that, I'm a bit worried about using it since it's an unknown taiwanese brand and it was really cheap, like dirt cheap. The equivalent of 50 cents... Or 5 egyptian pounds. Couldn't find any better, even though the place I went to is called a "computer mall" and they sell every kind of computer components, from cheap gpus and cpus, to high end stuff, like the gtx titan, or intel haswell i7 extreme cpus.
  12. If you don't need the optical drive, try to remove that along with the ram cage, it dropped my temps by more than 20c on my M14X R1.
  13. I agree, have you seen inglourious basterds or pulp fiction? They're just magnificent, and to be honest the one that left the biggest impact on me was inglourious basterds, christoph waltz is just an amazing actor, and he shows it in this movie even better than Django.
  14. Thanks for the replies guys. I had already cleaned the fan, but I did it again, and this time I removed the optical drive and the ram cage (or w/e it's called) and to my surprise I'm now idling at 38c for the gpu and around 50c more or less for the cpu, and on full load cpu never goes higher than 75-80 degrees, and 70-75 degrees for the gpu and that's really rare, it's usually around 65 on load. And I'm now using the a08 unlocked voltmod bios, which is working great, and btw those temps are with the 800/1000 overclock which seems to be very stable, but temps only go up 2 or 3 degrees at 830. So yeah, it's kinda fixed. If this might help other people, I could do a thread regarding the steps that I've taken to get these temps. And @Suoah Yes, haha. But I do have a/c on almost 24/7
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