Overheating Laptop (Primarily the GPU)

[Heyday665]

Hello, This is my first time asking a question on this forum and I have found myself in a bit of a sticky situation.

For the last year and a half I have been happily using my Asus G74sx ROG laptop as a gaming computer, and I have been satisfied with the power that does not seem to be capable of defeat.

Unfortunately, I have found the downfall, Overheating. Using various tools such as GPU-Z and Piriform Speccy, I have monitored the heat of my GPU, which, at times reaches almost 95 degrees Celsius! This is noticeable when playing games, the framerate will go from the very gorgeous 90-120, and drop to 10 for a split second(I assume so the GPU can catch up?) and go right back up. This happens around 30 times per minute.

I have a hypothesis, Dust. I think dust is the issue to my problems! I intend to go out in the afternoon tomorrow and pickup some more compressed air so I can try to eradicate this evil dust. I am wondering if I should pursue dust as the evildoer or if I am completely overlooking something obvious and should slap myself.

I hope you guys are able to help me with this issue, and I thank you in advance!

I do intend to get parts to build a PC sometime soon (wish me luck on my first build!), but in the meantime, here are my specs:

CPU : Intel i7-2630QM @ 2.00 GHz
GPU: NVidia GeForce GTX 560M
RAM: 8 GB
Additional Monitor: Asus VS238H-P

*Edit (Fixed): I misspelled 'Laptop' in the title, shame on me*

 

[Headbomb]

Yes, If your laptop was working fine before and now it isn't I can only assume that the problem is dust. Using a can of compressed air should be sufficient. I however, always take the bottom cover of of my laptop and use a a vacuum cleaner to suck up all of the dust in the computer. Laptops and computers get dirty fast. I regularly clean mine once every two months.
I hope this helps.
Cheers

 

[affroman112]

Taking the cover off the bottom and cleaning out that way is best. If the problem persists then it might be time to reapply thermal paste to the gpu.

 

[Heyday665]

Yes, If your laptop was working fine before and now it isn't I can only assume that the problem is dust. Using a can of compressed air should be sufficient. I however, always take the bottom cover of of my laptop and use a a vacuum cleaner to suck up all of the dust in the computer. Laptops and computers get dirty fast. I regularly clean mine once every two months.
I hope this helps.
Cheers

Thanks for the reply, I couldn't get a can of compressed air today, but I will be getting one tomorrow and will try to remove as much as possible. I will get back to you tomorrow with an update on the situation! Thank you for confirming my theory!

 

[nuflia]

Hi Heyday665,
Hope you're well. Are you able to solve the overheating problem in your PC, did you make any dust cleaning, have you had any improvements
looking to hear from you...