dudis wrote: ↑Wed 20 Mar 2019 1:22 PM
alusnova415 wrote: ↑Tue 19 Mar 2019 7:50 PM
One thing to remember that gaming laptops with dedicated gpu's will get hot (daoc will not make the laptop hot) but any other game it will , expect to play in the 90c range. Also expect to pay $800+ for a 1060 laptop $1000+ for the ones with gsync, high color gamut ips panel, 75hz,etc. I recommend re-applying liquid metal paste and thermal pads vs whatever your laptop came with , this will improve the thermals and most usually see a decrease of 20c (gaming at 70c is considered great for laptops). I did it it was easy but a bit tedious to clean all the old paste , you will not regret it.
I absolutely agree about re-pasting.
My laptop is a 3 year old i7 6700HQ with a desktop 1060 6gb and it dropped 20C during load while also being a lot quieter AND boosting to higher mhz. I didn't even use liquid metal but instead opted for Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut which seems to be the top performer of non-conductive products atm.
Another thing you should do as most laptop CPUs aren't overclockable, is to Undervolt your CPU.
My i7 6700HQ runs at minus 0.175 mv perfectly stable and the temperature difference is huge. CPU very rarely exceeds 55C or so even during heavy loads for extended times, and my fans barely spin up. I recommend Throttlestop for this purpose.
Yes i did not go into advanced details but for anyone that might not be aware and is gaming on a laptop or thinking of buying one you should do these 4 things:
1. Re-Paste your CPU and GPU with Liquid Metal Paste ( should decrease 8c-15c)
2. Undervolt your CPU (your cpu should see 10c minimum drop)
3. Undervolt you GPU (should see 10c avg drop)
4. Buy a cooling pad (will not have as high impact on temps but will drop by 2-3c, however this makes it easier to put on your lap if in bed , rises the laptop for better airflow too , etc. Now you can buy one with fan control where you can rise the fan rpm to max, I have 2 cooling pads one with fan control and when I raise the fan to max I see at least 10c drop but fan is loud, basically I use it during the summer when is hot and the other one with quiett quiet rpm setting other months.
After these you should be gaming in the 65-75c CPU and GPU 70-75c avg, with these steps DAOC on my laptop runs between 45-50 for both cpu and gpu , basically like if it was idle.
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