My Helios 300 gets overheated even after changing thermal paste

neo4evr
neo4evr Member Posts: 6

Tinkerer

edited November 2023 in 2019 Archives
Hi,
So I have this Acer predator Helios 300 laptop with i5 processor and GTX 1060 graphics card. From the very beginning the processor hits 99C when gaming so I called support and the engineer came to change the thermal paste. 
After changing the thermal paste it was working OK at maximum 77C for a few moments. But after like 3 hours, it again started to hit temperatures of 99 and even 100C with frequent frame drops in games.
The engineer once again changed the thermal paste, this time with Arctic Silver 5. It worked OK for a few moments and again after a few hours the temperature hitted 96C. Although a little better than before but still frame drops in games. 
I am really confused why this is happening. I requested for changing the motherboard 2 months ago and still according to the support team the motherboard is not available so they are telling it will take time. I am facing a lot of harassment. 
Can you please help me out what is wrong with the laptop?
Many thanks in advance

Answers

  • Jack22
    Jack22 ACE Posts: 3,652 Pathfinder
    @neo4evr
    Predator and Nitro products are engineered to withstand higher operating temperatures than traditional notebooks. These systems include features that help with cooling and heat dispersion. The CPU and GPU are designed to handle temperature spikes in excess of 98 degrees Celsius without causing damage to the components. It is common for PC temperatures to spike temporarily during heavy gaming or graphic usage. If the system encounters excessive temperatures that could damage the hardware, it will automatically shut down to protect the components from becoming damaged.

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  • neo4evr
    neo4evr Member Posts: 6

    Tinkerer

    Jack22 said:
    @neo4evr
    Predator and Nitro products are engineered to withstand higher operating temperatures than traditional notebooks. These systems include features that help with cooling and heat dispersion. The CPU and GPU are designed to handle temperature spikes in excess of 98 degrees Celsius without causing damage to the components. It is common for PC temperatures to spike temporarily during heavy gaming or graphic usage. If the system encounters excessive temperatures that could damage the hardware, it will automatically shut down to protect the components from becoming damaged.

    Click on 'Yes' if the comment answers your question!
    I understand but my problem is that due to this overheating games are encountering frequent framedrops and also some applications are performing poorly due to thermal throttling. 
  • xapim
    xapim ACE Posts: 7,257 Pathfinder
    edited February 2019
    @neo4evr that seems to me it was a bad repaste it means it worked ok but whne it started to settle it went back to the same issue either he applied too much paste or not enough or even left bubbles when applying it i would ask them to repaste it again but this time use the paste you want to like for ex kryonaut and i would make sure it was properly applied this time and as5 its rubish now i used to use it it was good a few years ago but these days its useless only +- good for old laptops and for sure not recommended for a gaming laptop as i said kryonaut or some with similar specs for gaming laptops/desktops i repasted all my laptops old and new with kryonaut my hp mini intel atom its on 13 on idle :p and my G3 cpu 36 gpu 34 idle and 65 to 70 max gpu and 70 to 75 +- max cpu games on ultra so a good repaste/undervolt and windows optimization can make the big difference on a gaming laptop


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  • ShrekPozer
    ShrekPozer Member Posts: 1 New User
    So, recently my predator started to heat up a lot, even when turbo boost was disabled, fans at max and further under-clocking done. I tried many solutions, but only one worked. I thought of doing a manual re-paste, but then noticed that when my fans were maxed out, there was not much air coming out of the vents. I tried to check for solution and saw a video on YouTube. So apparently, the vents can accumulate dust and restrict the air flow. I did not open up my laptop, but used a pin to poke through the air vents, and surprisingly, the air flow got better and now my laptop doesn't go above 71c with turbo boost disabled (It used to reach 96-97c and then thermal throttling would kick in). I haven't tried with boost on yet. Hope this was helpful.
    Here is the Youtube video link :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB39PPoHBpo