- Feb 5, 2024
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I wanted to clean out my laptop and replace it's thermal solution for college since I've been using it for more over a year now without checking its insides. I opened it up and successfully dusted it out, but was not able to replace the thermal solution because of one screw. After this, I have started to notice that my laptop is now idling at 94°C (or anything above 90°C) according to MSI Center, and it is nearing 100°C on HWiNFO and the CPU speed dips whenever I open games. I usually play Warframe, back then I didn't experience any fps drops, but now it drops every second or so.
I've had an observation that booting it up while it wasn't plugged in made it so that it's idle temp was normal, only then will it shoot up to 90°C when I plug it again.
Things to note:
-I was using it on a "Best for Battery" power plan, making it so that it only charges up to 50%. It says that it'll prolong my battery life so that's what I did, since I was using it mostly plugged in.
First question, is it a possible issue with the way I screwed the whole thing back together? I figured that I must have affected the way the vents cooled the components with the way I tightened things.
Second question, is it possible that my laptop is now thermal throttling because it's thermal solution has dried up and since I was unsuccessful with the replacement, this is now the outcome?
Third question, if none of these things, what could I have possibly done to do this? I made sure I didn't ground any component. I made sure to be careful with the screws and with cleaning off the dust. I did my best to return everything back to normal.
I just want to play Warframe normally again.
Specs:
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30 Ghz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU
RAM: 16 GB
I've had an observation that booting it up while it wasn't plugged in made it so that it's idle temp was normal, only then will it shoot up to 90°C when I plug it again.
Things to note:
-I was using it on a "Best for Battery" power plan, making it so that it only charges up to 50%. It says that it'll prolong my battery life so that's what I did, since I was using it mostly plugged in.
First question, is it a possible issue with the way I screwed the whole thing back together? I figured that I must have affected the way the vents cooled the components with the way I tightened things.
Second question, is it possible that my laptop is now thermal throttling because it's thermal solution has dried up and since I was unsuccessful with the replacement, this is now the outcome?
Third question, if none of these things, what could I have possibly done to do this? I made sure I didn't ground any component. I made sure to be careful with the screws and with cleaning off the dust. I did my best to return everything back to normal.
I just want to play Warframe normally again.
Specs:
CPU: 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-11800H @ 2.30 Ghz
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU
RAM: 16 GB
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