Hello everyone. Lately my Asus ROG Laptop, which I purchased in 2017, has been having a myriad of performance issues seemingly related to the fans struggling to cool it. It gets very hot, and the fans are quite loud. Also, I used to be able to play WoW on maximum graphics settings with no issues, now I have to put it on almost the minimum to maintain 60fps. If I put my graphics settings super high, I suffer from intense framerate drops and the computer overheats and shuts off. I’m not a hardware guy, so does anyone have any tips to avoid having to go to a computer repair shop? I’m almost certain that the issue is with the cooling, since all my drivers are up to date, and I have a GTX 1080 in this thing. Thanks!
Get a can of compressed air & blow out the vents; after 3 years you could have a significant amount of dust built up in there.
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Thanks! Should I attempt to open up the bottom of the laptop? Or would you just recommend blowing into the exterior of the vents?
I’m not familiar with ASUS laptops, so I can’t say whether it’s a good idea to try to start taking them apart. I would try blowing air through the vents first & see what that does for you - it may improve things enough that you don’t need to go any further.
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We have an Asus gaming laptop in our office and the thing sounds like a dustbuster when used for rendering (has an i7-7700k in it) so I’m not surprised of over heating issues. Unless WIll really is undead and shedding skin like crazy I doubt a three year old laptop would be that dusty. You probably would need to look into re-seating the CPU & GPU using better thermal paste, look into possible better fans, look into turning down some of the hardware to run cooler.
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Well if that’s the case, I might have to bring it to a repair shop! I don;t know how to do any of that.
A can of air only costs a few bucks, I really would try that first. If you take it to a repair shop, I’m sure that’s going to be the one of the first things they try, and they’ll charge you a lot more for it.
And as for dust levels, I’ve seen how much dust my desktop & laptop computers accumulate over time, and I’m not undead, nor do I have any pets. Three years is more than enough time to have a significant dust buildup and laptops are going to be more sensitive to that than desktops.
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When I used to game on a laptop, I used a laptop cooling pad with active fans. I don’t know if it helps, but I think the best improvement was just lifting it off the floor and giving it space underneath.
Some areas are just dusty. Between the 5 people where I am, and pets, I have to clean out my filters about every 3-4 months or else they’ll be choked up with fuzz. 3 years in the same environment and you could almost put a collar on the dust and take it for walks, so it isn’t unreasonable that the issue is entirely dust related - especially in a laptop.
Factory thermal paste is generally chosen due to its stability, not its performance. It may not be the greatest now but it’ll still be working just as “well” for a very long time. 3 years is barely a blip unless it was done poorly in the first place or someone has made a poor attempt at replacing it previously.
What gets hot? cpu or gpu? or both?
use cpuid hwmonitor and check your temps.
Other things you can do is underclock your cpu, try changing to directx 11 leg in wow settings, directx 12 makes your videocard gpu and your cpu gpu work togethor which makes your cpu get very hot.
I have a 3 month old acer nitro laptop and found it got very hot, undervolting helped alot, though switching to directx 11 in games decreased my temps by 20c.
pets?
SAY NO MORE