A717-72G-700J Overheating Cooling Pad

Astosseras

My new A717-72G-700J is easily getting hot while playing CPU and GPU demanding games. Even the keyboard WASD keys can get hot and not comfortable to use.

How do you recommend to deal with overheating without having to disassemble my laptop and messing things up?

What cooling pad do you use for your laptop? Do you find it useful?

Ishy

Hi, @Astosseras Yes, cooling pad can help with hot temperature. Best ones could be found around $20-$30 price range. If you don't want to use cooling pad then use slightly lowered graphics in games for better experience. Also check if there are any programs running in the background while you are playing games which could increase the hot temperature without your knowledge. 

Bob_Roy

Podkładka nic nie da ,te modele przy grach tak mają że jest gorący łącznie z klawiaturą.To normalne.

aphanic

Hey @Astosseras, just looked at a disassembled view of your machine, agree with @Bob_Roy that it's normal; or rather due to its design. The hotter areas are located beneath the top part of the laptop so there ain't many things you can do to alleviate it. There seems to be 2 fans several heat pipes connecting the CPU and GPU along with 2 fans, but they're all connected (ideally there'd be independent pipes and fans for the CPU and GPU).

Things that could help mitigate the issue.. re-pasting the CPU & GPU with a high performance compound so heat is transferred to the pipes more effectively, although not only you'd need to spend more in that paste but also disassemble the whole thing, and there's no guarantee it'd improve substantially.

Since the bottom panel is made of plastic putting the laptop over a metal or stone (think... marble for example) wouldn't be as effective either, but if you end up getting a cooling thing (with fans) try to get the fans directly beneath the vents. The internal fans of the machine are in the left area (laptop upside down), GPU and CPU are next to them to the right.

I hope that helps

Astosseras

I purchased the cooling pad a few months ago. It is a good cooling pad for $40 but it does not solve the overheating issue. It reduces only 2-4 °C and it's nothing when you hit 90+°C for most modern games. Thanks to all the people who suggested to buy the cooling pad without actually testing it for this model and knowing it works. It doesn't help as much as needed and it's not worth spending money on it. 

The only solution that helped me to reduce the temperature from 90°C to 75°C is by disabling the Turbo Boost of my CPU (reducing the maximum processor state).

I did not re-paste this laptop yet but I will do it when I have to go to the technician to clear the dust (honestly, I don't think this will help much based on what other people are talking about this model).

aphanic

Astosseras said:

I did not re-paste this laptop yet but I will do it when I have to go to the technician to clear the dust (honestly, I don't think this will help much based on what other people are talking about this model).

Yeah... it happens to many laptops, I was just checking another one in a different thread and same thing: 2 copper pipes bridging the GPU & CPU and just 1 fan. Ideally the components that generate heat should be isolated from one another if you're making a laptop with more than 1 fan, but those cooling solutions probably cost more and all so they end up in pricy laptops. It's way easier to lower temps in desktops even without water cooling.

What re-pasting using a better thermal compound does is transfer the generated heat to the pipes quicker so to speak, but it's ultimately up to the way those pipes are cooled down (the fans in this case) that you see noticeable results, so don't expect crazy reductions in temps even if you used liquid metal, specially under load or while gaming.

There are other things that maybe could be available to you now that I think of it, one is Intel XTU (if supported). You could try lowering the voltage of the processor cores (check for guides on the matter, you ought to lower it little by little and check whether the system is stable).

Another would be disabling HyperThreading instead of Turbo Boost and seeing whether it'd make a difference. Your processor is a 6-core one that logically look like 12 (it doesn't perform like a true 12-core thing though). Disabling HT you'd be forgoing that, it'd be a 6-core proc with "only" 6 cores. It's plenty enough and if disabling HT instead leads to lower temps I'd take that over disabling Turbo Boost in that machine, but I have no idea whether such thing is even selectable in your BIOS or not, it usually depends on the manufacturer.

Best of luck man!