Diagnosing An Overheating Laptop (Plus Upgrade Plans!)
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2019
- My recently aquired gaming laptop couldn't handle this weekend heat, so it's time to take it apart, see why it's running hot and talk about upgrade plans.
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HP laptops are the worst for getting in side! I'm talking 30+ screws before having to rip open the keyboard and getting in that way
My HP ProBook 4430s has one screw in the battery bay and two latches on the back and the back comes off giving you access to RAM, CPU, HDD
I agree, I had a HP 250, spent 2 hours trying to figure it all out, 1 of those hours trying to get the keyboard out (my first laptop dissassembly) and the laptop was cracked inside, and I lost some screws lol. Well at least I fixed the throttling issue, which was my goal.
Which one did you have?
@@yotoprules9361 think just a pavilion. All I was trying to do was to install an SSD, my Acer laptop only required a little window to latch open and you could slot one in 😭
I, as a HP serviceman of some sorts, can only agree. For example, they gradually moved away from the Battery being user-replaceable. Nowadays, the most modern ones have the RAM on the other side of the mainboard, which requires you to disassemble the mainboard AND the battery. (As of the X360 series)
@@TomCushnie ahh with my HP 250 the HDD was easy to replace, getting to the CPU was the hard part as you had dissassemble basically everything
RandomGamingHD: cries in 32°c
Me: laughs in 38°c
I get 26 and I live in china (laptop temps somehow)
laughs in 67 C at idle
?! turn your a/c on, man!
(Sorry, I live in Florida, we call that "Life Support")
We don't believe in A/C in the UK, there's generally no need for it xD
Yeah, who has A/C in the UK xD
_we don't have ac_
In all seriousness, the reason why everyone dies here is all the buildings are made to keep in heat, and there's no AC. I'm not sure about this but it's also deceptively humid.
thedungeondelver we only have a few hot days lol so no need for air con cause its always cold and raining most of the time
Every summer has been getting hotter, it might be time for yall to invest in ac lol
I look forward to seeing your upgrades. I had a similar system and I saw about a 8 degree C temp drop after sanding the heat sink contacts with 1200 grit sand paper. Nothing too aggressive, merely more of a polish.
MunkyMeat I’m having a hard time wondering why the CPU’s IHS doesn’t have a polished mirror shine, since the CPU DIE does.
Lmao when I heard of the heat wave I knew it would be like only 32 degrees ahah that barely could classify as summer over here in Aus
128gb ssd starts to be a bit of a pain. 240gb ssds are cheaper and they really worth it.
Edit: 240gb are cheaper than few months ago. And 128gb ssd doesn't worth buying.
And usually faster too.
MirelRc 240gb ssds aren’t cheaper. Why would anyone get a lower capacity ssd for more?
240GB are cheaper per gigabyte. Kingston 120s are $20, 240s are $30.
@@censi1401 Sorry, I haven't wrote all I want to say. 240gb ssds are cheaper than how they used to be few months ago. And now a 128gb doesn't worth the money.
@@quirble yeah. I haven't completed my comment because I was in a hurry.
This is actually something I actively do myself personally as a hobby when I refurbish laptops so I will share some insight and hopefully this will get noticed.
* I would put a heatsink of some sort on the chipset since it's just bare right now, something like what you would put on a CPU from a Raspberry Pi would work or one of those older styles Zalman ones for GPU's are a good bet. This will help the laptop last longer more than assist in performance since it gets really hot. Just watch the clearance you don't want it higher than the cooler itself and ensure there is nothing that will prevent the bottom cover getting on again (you could use some thermal glue for this so it won't come off again just be sure to make sure it fits good 1st)
* I would replace the optical drive with an ODD to HDD adapter that's nice and dirt cheap, this will expand your storage and give new use for that HDD you took out which could handle storing your games while your SSD runs the system. This is something I personally do (My current daily driver had 2 HDD bays and an Optical drive so its now a 120GB SSD + 2x 500GB HDD system)
* As you pointed out adding another Ram DIMM is a good idea :D
* I would also look at upgrading the WiFi card if it's not at least a dual band AC card with Bluetooth 4.0 or higher just to expand on what the laptop can do and connect too without more dongles (for non-gaming this helps me on my daily driver laptop with a Bluetooth mouse :D )
* As for the CPU my advice is to try to look up the model of the laptop and check the series of models it has, then see what other CPU's it offered and you could aim for the highest or higher end one from that list which is a safer bet in case it has a whitelist system, just be sure of this though. Check the Intel ARK for what the TDP is of your current or highest end offering for that model and don't exceed it with your upgraded CPU. Laptop cooling is normally designed with a small range of CPU's in mind and it could overwhelm your cooler easily otherwise :D
Hope this helps you or someone else in the comments
I love how you are progressing in ur channel, been watching for ages and love ur work my fav tech youtuber!!keep up the good work man and wish you the best will continue to watch ur vids on this and ur games channel for ever man!
I love that he calls us Australians out for being to damn hot.
Except for the fact it's winter so it's not very hot
@@tomstreet3147 northern areas are still reaching 30c +. Rest of the country not so much
This video is INCREDIBLE. 10/10. Continue working in this laptop please
Love these videos. Always good content from this channel.
When you get the upgraded CPU, I recommend getting some Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut and pasting it up with that instead.
You'll probably need it, because an upgrade on the CPU side is going to dump a lot more heat into the finstack, especially if you upgrade to a quad core part, and you want to make up for that as best as possible.
Awesome to see some Laptop stuff! Looking forward on the follow up video of the upgrades fro sure!
i'm watching a lot of videos from your channel, and i must say it's really interesting ! i subscribed
I like the fact that you can get so easy to all important parts. It's also cool that you have the ability to upgrade the CPU. 👍
It would have been awesome if the gpu were upgradeable.
im loving to see you messing with laptops, pls do more videos with them!
cpu should be this i7-4702MQ anything else will either stress the vrm and not boot or overheat like stove and burn down
You can easily undervolt any Haswell i7 chip to an 35w TDP level. I believe this laptop is actually based on clevo platform so theres a chance it has custom bios with pretty much all the functionality of a desktop motherboard in bios.
Not saying it won't fit, idk, but I believe he said it was a i5 2(something)m that would be sandybridge so.....
An i5-2410M is listed as socket
FCBGA1023, PPGA988, whereas the I7,
FCPGA946.
@@jaykoerner It was a mistype
@@jaykoerner the i5 2410M comes on socket G2. the i7 4702M comes on socket G3
i love this channel so much
Anyone: yeah we are in a heatwave hitting 30°C
Australians:😏first time
Even in Canada that’s pretty normal
In Spain, right now, 34°C and plans to rise in a few hours to 38°C
algeria ( 48°C ) : Kids Playing oustide
@@Medesea 😆😆😆
In Germany we had up to 39°C. But our houses are build to keep warm air inside to save some money in the winter and nobody has air conditioning here, so it gets 30°C inside.
I love when older laptops get upgraded. Very entertaining.
Nice to see the beloved GM107 in another RGinHD video. Good video as usual
Looking forward to the upgrade! When do you think the video on it will be released?
Was there an option for AHCI in the BIOS when you installed Windows on a SSD?
Thanks for making this video, I have a HP laptop that hits 93°C at maximum, so I will see what I can do in terms of cooling
The key for gaming laptops is not only to have good airflow, but also to have separate cooling elements/heat pipes for the GPU and CPU. When they're both using one heatsink and fan like this, they combine forces to become hot AF.
32 Celsius? AHAHAHAAA! Now with that out of my system, nice video :)
What is the joke here, is it too hot or too cold?
@@zaidakbaralmuharram2984 Oh, I can see why you are doubting that by your name.
Thumbs up on video. ""Only"" 29C here.
Lol only 32 degrees? It’s around 30 in winter!
9C and poring rain here in Norway. I love summer!
Had a fan with a missing blade before, saw the broken blade inside the laptop case after opening. Fan wasn't working well and made the laptop noisy. I carefully glued it back and it ran well. But I think it's best to replace the fan with a perfectly working one.
Be happy it was that easy to take apart, probably the worst I've dealt with outside apple is a lenovo x60, had to take everything out to reach the heatsink.
Looking forward to seeing next vid I could do with a laptop like this one.
That laptop is actually pretty sweet, it doesn't look like an issue at all to swap components. If you can sort out the heat issues that thing is perfect
i love this international language: pc diagnosis, and repair it. nice video as always. Merci beaucoup ;)
Oh un Français :p
My laptop even makes a weird maybe grinding noise i think from the fan.Only soluyion to make it work is to punch it at the fan,where caps asd keys are and suprisingly,it works?
Yo sick video! 🔥
Would cutting another blade on the fan but on the opposite side help quiet it down, just in case the imbalance was causing the bearing to shake or something?
Nice video, always so fiddley doing laptops but have you ever tried liquid metal thermal paste? Can only use it on copper but it does really help specially in laptops to help transfer that heat more efficiently.
I repair laptops almost daily and practically every single one is just fully plugged at the exhaust between the fan and the case. It's actually pretty amazing they'll even run like that!
I have a i7 4700mq you can have if you want it.
also an i7 4710mq and what speed is that ram? I may have a 8gb stick of ddr3 l for you too... just let me know.
Have you thought about buying a hdd caddy to put a hard drive into your DVD drive bay so you can use your hdd drive as s storage drive along side your ssd?
you should look at the worth of a few year old thin and lights, I love my 2015 xps 13 its still the same case size as the new ones but has 5th gen parts. I think its still plenty good for light games and day to day use but maybe worth look? just a shame its a duel core and hyper not a 4 core like desktops
11k veiws in 3 hours nice bud, never miss a video myself, great channel for real gamer, unlike them 2k pc build video on other channels you know who iam talking about lol
If only every laptop was as easy to work with as this one.
Replacing the thermal paste is magic i just saw on my laptop interesting video
91'C is pretty standard these days in modern gaming laptops smh - especially with an i7 8750H
the i7 8750h isnt so bad, especially when you have throttlestop I average around 75 maybe 80 on most games. Asus GL503GE. I could possibly get lower temps when I re-paste it.
the i7 8750H is one of the best mobile gaming cpu. if you mean that it`s good but going hot fast, youre right
A good heater for the winter though.
Do more like this with laptop I like those vids gaming and everything .
Well, in Pakistan.. normal temperature in summers is 40C and can be up to 48C in different areas.
I'm wondering where that broken fin from the fan went.
In the next video for this notebook will you spread the thermal paste properly on the processors? The method that was shown in the video is for processors with IHS (integrated heat spreader). I think the best method to apply thermal paste is the spread method combined with the pea method. Also, can you do some undervolting too in the next video?
32c is a nice winter day for us. Imagine that.
does the fan make noise after u clean it?
Is intel pentium b960 can be upgrade to i3 or i5 can you suggest which cpu is compatible with my laptop
Nice video :) Good to see that the CPU can be upgraded, as well as the RAM. My HP laptop came with just 1x 8GB stick, so it's great to see that second slot where you can just shove another stick in :).
Out of curiosity, how large was the old HDD? HDDs aren't that bad in my opinion (and experience), and in most cases, a HDD will be sufficient given a decent enough CPU.
Also, for your information, I have an Acer Aspire 5742 that overheats, which I'd like to look at one day. That's not as promising as yours though, because whilst a lot of components are easily accessible, the fan/heatsink is on the underside, so the entire motherboard has to come out :(.
The laptop in question has a Core i5-480M, what do you think would be a good upgrade (assuming I can get it reasonably priced)?
It's hard to tell if that Acer laptop can even be upgraded. Userbenchmakr doesn't show anyone having an i7 for your laptop: www.userbenchmark.com/System/Acer-Aspire-5742/3401
But with that being said, if it can be upgraded, the i7-720QM isn't a bad idea: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Core-i7-720QM-Quad-Core-Laptop-CPU-Processor-1-6GHz-6M-Cache-SLBLY/233262485242?hash=item364f870efa:g:wz8AAOSwSzZdCgfJ
Heyyyy what is your laptop model. It is same form factor like my MSI cr436m
dont see a lot of laptop cpu upgrade vids so looking forward to seeing someone else make it happen
I7 4800mq or HQ would be a nice upgrade for this socket which appears to be PGA946
I bought a MSI laptop used with the factory seal still good. It was overheating and when I opened it up the cpu fan was just unplugged.
Here in Texas having a high of 32c is only 90f. We consider that a cooler than normal summer.
couldn't find the upgraded video :(
That's why I keep my bedroom (where my custom builds lay) around 70 degrees...
and bang on ,i said the radiator would have the sheet of dust-felt blocking it ,in your first video
I had an issue recently with my gaming laptop massively underperforming. Turned out it was thermal throttling. Eventually it got so bad it was hitting 100 degrees through nothing but web browsing, and it was actually turning itself off. Opened it up to clean it out and replace the thermal paste, it now idles around 50.
@RandomGaminginHD Intrested in a Core i7 quadcore for this Laptop? Still got one collecting dust.
Have you tried undervolting the cpu?
Can you review lenevo flex 2-14?
Hahahaha 32ºC, that's a cool summer day in Spain. PC's temperatures are higher than in winter? Yes, but I wouldn't say that's overheating, computers keep up very well and are used to it xD
Hahahahah -100 celcius yes I live in Antarctica or somewhere else am no scientist
Hey random what's the best budget 1155 cpu for an oem hp motherboard
It depends on your budget of course, but an i7 2600 for about 50-60 usd or i7 3770 for 60-80 are pretty great choices. Otherwise the i5 3570 at about 40 isn't bad either
But how does the cost of buying an ssd, ram, fan, and cpu compare to just selling it and buying another newer one?
Wonder how the cooling system would manage a quad core!
may be possible to undervolt and decrease the temps a little bit (around 5-10 degrees depending on the undervolt)
@@yotoprules9361
Lol hey
@@realvivifromloona hey rajan
32 is a hot winters day lol
Hey randomgaming HD I have a question I want to buy a laptop for school and gaming for cheap my budget was 500$ Canadian and I found a msi ge70 2pc for 400$ like new. If you want to search the specs and let me know if it's worth it
Summer in Middle East is over 35 degree Celsius almost the whole day.
Hottest day in the UK only 32c?
We got 41.6 that month here in the Netherlands. I thought the UK could get hotter.
Or was this just for that year up till then?
Looking at how quickly my old core2duo Dell E6400 boots compared to this machine, I'd say it's a bit of a dog :D. Still, fun to play with. I'd do the same.
really a hot day 32 degree here in Tunisia when we have a hot day the temp is between 45 to 50 degree
32 lol it's almost the middle of winter and it still hits 32 during in the day here in upside-down land
32 in winter. Damn I might hit -27 (Fahrenheit)
My 2010 HP Elitebook requires you to remove the keyboard to access the CPU, GPU and one of the RAM slots (that's a dumb decision), but luckily the keyboard is held in with a few little clips that you can pop out easily and then the keyboard lifts up. I just ended up removing the screws that held the keyboard in because the clips did a good enough job, so that meant to get at all my internals I only had two screws that held on the plate above the keyboard with all the hotkeys and power button on it. It's a hot running laptop, but still a beast for daily tasks with an SSD, so I try and keep it maintained with high quality thermal paste and lots of cleaning out.
i would advise you to compare the TDP from both the i5 and i7 that you want to buy. If its too high, you could get bad temps later on. Maybe look for some cpu support lists for that mainboard or just rely on other configurations that were sold. So you know an i7 or one specific cpu would work fine.
I still wanna see some Texan gaming in Texas.
Ssd. 16gig ram. Kingpin thermal paste and maybe a copper shim for extra heat disperse, new fan, and CPU would turn that thing into a solid entertainment center laptop. So cool to see older hardware become like mew with other ways of it being used.
What's the name of this laptop? Looks like something I would like since the CPU can be changed.
i7-3740QM should work with FPA988 socket the i5-2410 uses...ups the TDP requirements from 35W to 45W...will stress the thermals more though....
I dont know what overheating is sadly because i own a Gtx 480
I can really recommend liquid Metal Thermal Paste. For me it dropped the over all temperature from 80 to 50°C
Don't worry about the temps with an i7, I have the same laptop and put an i7 4712mq (37w tdp) in it and it's great. Same temp wise as the i5 4340m (3.6ghz boost) I had in it before.
is it normal that my 771 xeon modded into a 775 get 81 c??
Nope. unless you have a shitty cooler
The missing fanblade is going to resonance throughout the entire system and stagnate airflow. I'm not sure how it broke, but as it did, replacing it is always a good idea.
Re-Pasting is a good idea because it will make the laptop sound less like a jet engine. Also a mobile quad i7 will help with the gaming performance. Also a new fan will help as well with the cooling performance.
When applying thermal paste to open crystals, it's always safer to spread it. Even if tiniest corner will not be covered after rice grain method, it can be dangerous in the long run.
why you dont blur license key?
Never seen a laptop with an upgradable cpu, less a pga intel chip, great vid as always my dude, keep yourself cool out there :)
its completely unheard of nowadays but back around intel 2-4th gen it wasnt too uncommon
1:22 Another example of that is the Inspiron 15 7000 gaming 7567. But the RAM and Storage are easily accessible on the bottom.
32 degrees? Huh that is the easy mode, ive been into 45 degrees and still made it to office alive
Haswell was the last intel mobile cpu lineup to give you the option to upgrade your cpu unless you had the U or HQ series. once broadwell came along that's when all intel mobile cpu's became intergrated, which sucks.
32°c is pretty cold here in PH
What CPU was in it?
Totally same with my msi
Oh man, my m6600 is a pain in the ass to get inside. Should I spend about 250 to upgrade or just buy one of those Ryzen laptops?
Given the specs, you might just be better off selling it and getting a new laptop, but it does depend on if you have the cash for that
May I ask why you specifically say Ryzen laptops?
@@lolagepwned Why not? Pretty good deals on them.
@@lolagepwned I have also looked at those desktop socketed desktop replacements, but not sure if I want to get into that. I mean, for $300, I would probably put a 2720qm, 16gb ram, and a firepro m6100 with a new battery in it. But, we'll see
@@joeyhillers9460 Fair play, haven't looked into Ryzen laptops before, makes a lot more sense
The laptop upgrade doesn't sound too bad, depends on the spec you have currently really
@@lolagepwned I mean, the 2540m is not too bad. However, I do a lot of development work and the outdated Quadro 3000m and 4gbs of ram are really killing it. Honestly, probably just going to get a 2500u based laptop I found at Walmart near me for 300
Here in eastern iowa we hit 105 F yesterday lol
How about trying liquid metal instead of thermal paste this time around 🤔😊 I hear it does wonder for some laptops.
You buy a drive caddy so you could replace the dvd drive with the included hard disk incased inside the drive caddy while still having the ssd on harddrive bay.
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