So got this top to work on, was for a friends friend so I decided to clean it out, it was bug bombed and a bunch of roaches were inside it. All dead, though. Not as bad as another asus ROG laptop I worked on some time ago that was just full of live ones
aaanyhoo I decided to upgrade the PDC T4300 to a china bought T8300 Penryn-3M
updated the bios ahead of time. Saw it fine. Cleaned some real full junk from the heatsink that was 100% covered with a mesh of dust, dirt, dog hair, and cockroach bodyparts
fan was bad, replaced that too
got it all ready and the fan ran pretty much all the time either very low, or very high
hwmon was giving me these crazy temps. at idle, it was about 29c, with fair >50% activity, it jumps to ~70-100c on both cores, and quickly drops back down
the heatsink was put on, after cleaning both sides with 90% isoprobyl, with a thin nice layer of arctic silver 5, like I do with just about all cpus
is the thermocouple bad? is the CPU bad? because of the bad fan it was hard for me to tell if it was doing with the clogged heatsink
is the heatpipe bad? I've never encountered such odd fluctations. Usually with laptops I see either normal temps or solid medium-high ones.
aaanyhoo I decided to upgrade the PDC T4300 to a china bought T8300 Penryn-3M
updated the bios ahead of time. Saw it fine. Cleaned some real full junk from the heatsink that was 100% covered with a mesh of dust, dirt, dog hair, and cockroach bodyparts
fan was bad, replaced that too
got it all ready and the fan ran pretty much all the time either very low, or very high
hwmon was giving me these crazy temps. at idle, it was about 29c, with fair >50% activity, it jumps to ~70-100c on both cores, and quickly drops back down
the heatsink was put on, after cleaning both sides with 90% isoprobyl, with a thin nice layer of arctic silver 5, like I do with just about all cpus
is the thermocouple bad? is the CPU bad? because of the bad fan it was hard for me to tell if it was doing with the clogged heatsink
is the heatpipe bad? I've never encountered such odd fluctations. Usually with laptops I see either normal temps or solid medium-high ones.
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