What is the deal with Nitro 5 Ryzen 4600h GTX 1650’s GPU cooler?

DanBackslide

I recently did a repaste and repad on this specific laptop. The CPU was hitting 88c while gaming while the gpu was staying at a cool 65c while under max load in Elden Ring.

Upon removal of the cpu/gpu cooler I discovered that most of the pink thermal pads for the vram and vrm modules were near desintigrated. I decided to replace those as well.

After a couple of hours of cleaning the board, heat sink, cutting thermal pads to size, and repasting the gpu/cpu. I reassembled the laptop and began to put it through its paces.

I launched Elden Ring to begin the stress test. The cpu stayed at a comfy 65c while the gpu immediatly shot up to over 80c within seconds. I promptly exited the game. Tore down the laptop once more.

I Discovered that the heatsink was not making contact with the gpu. I did not under apply the thermal paste. During the initial tear down I discovered there was very little thermal paste on the CPU/GPU. I added just a tad more paste reasembled, began the stress test, and the GPU hovered around 80c.

Still not satisfied with results I tore the laptop down once more, examined the cooler. I then bent the mounting brackets upward that are attached to the cooler to add some extra downward tension. I firmly pressed the cooler to the board, reassembled.

I began the stress trest once more the GPU stayed in the mid 70c’s. Whilst the CPU stayed at a comfy 65c.

I ran the stress test for an hour to see if anything would over heat and give me a BSOD. It did not. While the gpu would briefly hit 80c it would drop back down in a second.

GPU-Z reports that the hot spot in the GPU is about 81.6C.

products used were Arctic MX-5 and Owl Tree Thermal Pads.

Who made this cooler and why??? What is your problem????

Also the shield that goes over the gpu side with knock outs for the gpu and vram is completely useless and not needed.

JackE

>>>the gpu was staying at a cool 65c>>>After a couple of hours of cleaning the board, heat sink, cutting thermal pads to size, and repasting the gpu/cpu. I reassembled the laptop and began to put it through its paces.>>>gpu immediatly shot up to over 80c within seconds.>>>

Anything below about 85*C for the discrete GPU when it's under load is normal. Anything below about 90*C for the CPU/GPU.is also normal. Seems like it's pretty good to me. Am I missing something here? .