#acer nitro 5 laptop

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delicate delta
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I recently just repasted my ASUS ROG Strix G17 because it was getting very hot. But they used LM on the CPU that somehow shifted around or something causing worse thermal contact. Can you give me the full model number? Because maybe it is also using liquid metal on the CPU. But even if it did, you're fine just re-spreading it with a cotton swab. I'll tell you more once you give me the full model number (not tryna blackmail obv.)

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But the GPU didn't have LM on it, just regular thermal paste. For that I used Arctic MX-4 and it performs a bit better than the stock thermal paste that was completely dried out after 2 years

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For removing the old paste from the CPU&GPU, you can use toilet paper that you made wet with isopropyl alcohol (or anything that has 70% or more alcohol) as I did to remove the bulk of the thermal paste and afterwards for the fine-cleanup, use cotton swabs that you dunk in alcohol

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I just did all that 2 days ago so I do have experience with it and I still know the rough steps @flat dew

short locust
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my friend has the same laptop and same issue he repasted it several times, i think it just has bad cooling.

delicate delta
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Laptops do run pretty hot, that's true

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Mine now goes to around 88°C on the CPU and 78°C max while playing games. But that is while sucking 55W and 80W for CPU and GPU respectively

flat dew
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I went to the shop today and got a cooling pad and mx6 paste so I’m going to repaste it

delicate delta
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So @flat dew , how much power are CPU and GPU drawing when your components get that hot?

flat dew
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And especially when it’s plugged in

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I’ve seen it at 97°

delicate delta
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I actually have one and I never game on it without it under my laptop xD

flat dew
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I think I’m not sure wait

delicate delta
flat dew
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This is when I reposted it with some very bad paste I had included with my pc cooler but in the picture that’s the stock paste the laptop had

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It doesn’t look like Liquid Metal

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Just regular

delicate delta
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Yeah, then yours uses regular thermal paste

flat dew
flat dew
delicate delta
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I don't know how good this is but its probably very similar to my arctic mx-4, which performs really well

short locust
flat dew
delicate delta
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Just for comparison, here's my CPU and GPU before the repaste:

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flat dew
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I also bought a cooling bad it wasn’t expensive tho it’s just to keep it off the desk

short locust
delicate delta
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and here is my CPU and GPU after repasting: Both screenshots were taken after a 15 minute gaming session

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flat dew
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That is a noticeable diffenfce

delicate delta
flat dew
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Difference

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So I should be good

flat dew
delicate delta
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The CPU is mostly because I re-spread the liquid metal but the GPU did improve quite a bit

delicate delta
short locust
flat dew
short locust
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still holds up pretty ok tho

delicate delta
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mx-6 seems to be quite a bit better than mx-4, so yeah, you're good to go with the tube that you already have

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I would recommend spreading it out though as you can never be sure enough on laptops because you're working with the bare dies. If there's a spot that's not covered that doesn't have an integrated thermal sensor, it's pretty likely that that part will die

delicate delta
short locust
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guys, a bit off topic, but is a GTX 760 still ok for light games?

delicate delta
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I still have the undervolt in as it saves a bit of power which is useful when I'm on battery as I did a little dumbo and stored my laptop for like 2 months but when storing it, it only had 7% left or so, so the battery very likely got underdischarged and is now at 77% of its design capacity

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What edit do you mean actually?

flat dew
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It’s like a bit bigger than pea sized

delicate delta
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you said that you were rendering an edit when you were getting these temps

delicate delta
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so a video edit?

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ah okay. I don't use premiere pro, I use shotcut, but that also has hardware-encoding, so that it can take advantage of my GPU and it renders at like 5-7 seconds of video per second. But if I use a ton of different clips, it can take almost double the time

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oh yeah oops 🙂

mortal ore
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Just so you know i repasted my nitro 5 laptop which was 1 week old with noctua paste but my cpu still goes to 100c. On the old thermal paste HWinfo showed a max of 108c on my cpu. I think the cooler design is just shitty. Thats why I have moved on to legion.

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id use mx4 paste but gaming laptops do tend to run very hot, luckily i don't have one so my laptop never really goes over 65c

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hell, the cpu fan rarely ever spins up on this

hidden seal
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Modern laptop CPUs are running on the verge of thermal throttling for whatever reason. It's annoying.

delicate delta
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Well mine runs at 86°C max while sucking 55W on CPU and 78°C with 90W on the GPU. But well, there is liquid metal on the CPU

chilly fable
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it's a gaming laptop they run hot my old one ran at 100°C+ on desktop, get a cooling mat apart from that nothing yo can do

mortal ore
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cpu in my laptop only uses like 7w average to maybe 10 - 15 max

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then again my laptop isn't a gaming laptop

delicate delta
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Yeah, it's mich for a laptop that's "just" 2.5 cm thick (around an inch)

mortal ore
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my thinkpad is slim as hell compared to my other laptops

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everything else is >2.5in thick

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and well over a decade old

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two in some cases

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damn. once 2023 hits the mobo in my xp system will be 20

delicate delta
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damn

reef estuary
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You could cook an egg with that 💀

sinful fossil
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I wish you luck. I happen to also have an Acer Nitro 5 (AN515-54 51M5) and I have repasted it several times with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut Extreme (maybe 4-5 times), and it still overheats horribly.