Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

[zoids]

I'm currently troubleshooting an overheating problem of my laptop. If anyone here have some idea on the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference, that would greatly help me diagnose if the heatpipe in my laptop is still working fine or not. Thanks.

[trebo]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

Can we take it that you have checked for dust carpet between fan and grill?
Have you read this Thread, https://www.badcaps.net/forum/showth...ight=heat+pipe
Should be a great help to you on Checking the heat pipe

[zoids]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

Thank you very much for the reply. The grill and the fan is already clean. There is about 10-13 degrees C difference between the processor end and fan end of the heat pipe. The fan is running fine, it accelerates when the temperature rises up. But there's a delay in the heat transfer, when the core temp reaches 80 degrees, temp in the spreader above the processor is still in the 50+ and on the grill end still about 30+. I'll try to replace the thermal paste in it today if it helps.

[opamp]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

Try sanding down the heatsink, you know were the cpu sits. Use fine sandpaper and don't forget new thermal paste. I personally use spectra cool thermal paste.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-SPECTRA-...item334ef87f6c

[heavymachines]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

if fresh thermal paste don't fix the problem there could be 2 things going on either fan is weak and no longer spins as fast as it used to or the gas in heatpipe leaked out which i have seen 2 cases of that happening before one way to tell is if the processor area is too hot to hold your finger and the grill is cool to touch then the gas in that heatpipe somehow leaked out.... another mod that works well is copper shim cut from copper sheet this mod will drop temps down 10 to 15 degrees Celsius....

[zoids]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

Thank you guys for all your replies. I finally got it working. I cleaned the spreader area and sanded the remaining stains (grit#1500). I used thermaltake tg2 thermal paste. There's a significant decrease in the loaded temp from 90+ to less than 65 degrees C (100% percent CPU usage) and bout 42 degrees idle temp.

[opamp]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

Your cpu should not run at 100% maybe you should run an antivirus on windows also get software to check for registry errors.

[zoids]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

Your cpu should not run at 100% maybe you should run an antivirus on windows also get software to check for registry errors.

Yes it's not normally running at 100%. It will only reach 100% when I run a software that I am working on(with heavy computation in a number of threads).

[opamp]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

Try this run msconfig and when the window pops up click on the startup tab then remove all the software you don't need when windows starts, you know like realplayer, skype and all that crap just leave your antivirus and firewall if you have one . All these programs that start when windows starts are running in the background and slows down your laptop. This is also a reason why the cpu is running at 100%.

[shovenose]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

@zoids: glad to hear it's working now
@opamp: you read his post? "Yes it's not normally running at 100%. It will only reach 100% when I run a software that I am working on(with heavy computation in a number of threads)." If he is competent enough to take apart his laptop he is like 99.9% likely to know about disabling excess startup items.

[opamp]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

Yes I read his post but I have seen people that are good with hardware and not software. If your laptop is reaching 100% while running some software than you most likely have a bunch of stuff running in the background, don't you think?

[opamp]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

@zoids: glad to hear it's working now
@opamp: you read his post? "Yes it's not normally running at 100%. It will only reach 100% when I run a software that I am working on(with heavy computation in a number of threads)." If he is competent enough to take apart his laptop he is like 99.9% likely to know about disabling excess startup items.

I see you have a new computer 16gb WOW!! not everybody is running with that kind of ram

[zoids]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

Yes I read his post but I have seen people that are good with hardware and not software. If your laptop is reaching 100% while running some software than you most likely have a bunch of stuff running in the background, don't you think?

Thanks for your concern opamp. Actually it doesn't have any software problem. It will only take 1-3% of the cpu at idle. And the software that I'm working on is expected to take 100% when the number of threads is set greater than or equal to the number of cores of the machine.

[opamp]

Re: Anyone know the heatpipe end to end normal temperature difference?

Thanks for your concern opamp. Actually it doesn't have any software problem. It will only take 1-3% of the cpu at idle. And the software that I'm working on is expected to take 100% when the number of threads is set greater than or equal to the number of cores of the machine.

Yeah I know what you mean. That happen to me once I bought this software but I didn't read the system requirements on the side of the box.