Recent content by alphardxyz

Thanks, but I'm not sure how to apply pressure to the heat sink while the laptop is running. Maybe I'll just try to replace the heat sink again, twisting the screws little by little.

This is how it was before i replaced the thermal paste. Do you think those thermal pads could cause problems? View: https://imgur.com/a/iReBJnD

I get it, but it wasn't like this when I first bought it. It worked fine for the first year or so, then it randomly started with this crazy gpu overheat problem. That's why I think some hardware must have deteriorated.

It wasn't idle, I was running a game (Doom eternal). I think the 2% gpu usage must be some kind of bug with the task manager, because it doesn't make sense to only have 2% while running that game. Still, it reaches this temperature after just 2 minutes of starting the game.

Yeah that's what I did, I think. I just followed my laptop's handbook, and it only said to twist them in the correct order. The thing is, I had this problem before replacing the thermal paste. So the heat sink must have been already badly secured, before I touched anything. My CPU kind of...

I replaced it yesterday, it was a good brand, and it didn't make any difference, so that's not the issue. I'm not sure what you mean by 'software issue'. How does a software make my GPU overheat?

View: https://imgur.com/a/bu9g8Cc This is my GPU while having Doom eternal open in the main menu (not even playing). As you can see from the image, the temperature is 91°C while the GPU usage is consistently below 2%. At this point the GPU starts to throttle so any slightly demanding game is...