biomachine
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I have a gaming notebook and am used to play games like Far Cry 3, Battlefield 3, Crysis 3, etc with no problems. The notebook is around 6 months old and specs are at the end of the post. The PC shutdown completely without any warning while playing Wargame: Airland Battle 5 times this week, one of them today. Facts:
- After the first time I thought it could be due to overheating, so I used GPU-Z to create a log of my GTX 660M. The highest temperature was 78C but the game continued to run smoothly without ANY artifacts, bugs, stuttering, etc. As it was a particularly hot day and I was using a desk with poor ventilation at the beginning, I changed my position and the temp dropped to 72C (Far Cry 3 and Crysis 3 both used to give me around 74C with high settings), and then to 69C. Notebook shut down unexpectedly while on 69 degrees, shown by GPU-Z log.
- I then proceeded to update my GPU driver, do a complete virus scan on the PC and even used Ccleaner in an attempt to fix any issue.
- I then, as a test, played the entire 2nd mission of Battlefield 3 campaign with medium-high settings without any problems. Max temp was 69C, the same temp at which the computer turned off previously.
- I went to auto-adjust W:AB video settings with the built-in feature and lowered a couple things from high to mid. Tried playing a skirmish game and the PC turned off again, at 68C.
The facts above made me think the problem is not a overheating issue (as higher temperatures were achieved before and never triggered any abnormal behaviour on the GPU/PC and never made the PC turn off) and also not a problem with demanding too much from the PC (as BF3 worked flawlessly and I am used to play demanding games without problems). I'd like to know what you guys think about it.
Also, what is the temperature my GPU should be getting while gaming? I usually get from 60-74C on demanding games, and I noticed that the PC has 2 vents, 1 at the back and 1 at the bottom: if I lift the PC from the desk, leaving the bottom vent free, the temperature goes down by a good 8-10C. Is this supposed to happen? Now I wan to buy some kind of support for it, but I don't think this should be happening anyway.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Specs:
15.6'' Optimus IV Notebook
Processor: Intel i7-3630QM 2.40GHz
RAM: 12GB Samsung 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2.0GB DDR5
Thermal Paste: Artic MX-4 Extreme
HD: 500GB (only 33% used)
- After the first time I thought it could be due to overheating, so I used GPU-Z to create a log of my GTX 660M. The highest temperature was 78C but the game continued to run smoothly without ANY artifacts, bugs, stuttering, etc. As it was a particularly hot day and I was using a desk with poor ventilation at the beginning, I changed my position and the temp dropped to 72C (Far Cry 3 and Crysis 3 both used to give me around 74C with high settings), and then to 69C. Notebook shut down unexpectedly while on 69 degrees, shown by GPU-Z log.
- I then proceeded to update my GPU driver, do a complete virus scan on the PC and even used Ccleaner in an attempt to fix any issue.
- I then, as a test, played the entire 2nd mission of Battlefield 3 campaign with medium-high settings without any problems. Max temp was 69C, the same temp at which the computer turned off previously.
- I went to auto-adjust W:AB video settings with the built-in feature and lowered a couple things from high to mid. Tried playing a skirmish game and the PC turned off again, at 68C.
The facts above made me think the problem is not a overheating issue (as higher temperatures were achieved before and never triggered any abnormal behaviour on the GPU/PC and never made the PC turn off) and also not a problem with demanding too much from the PC (as BF3 worked flawlessly and I am used to play demanding games without problems). I'd like to know what you guys think about it.
Also, what is the temperature my GPU should be getting while gaming? I usually get from 60-74C on demanding games, and I noticed that the PC has 2 vents, 1 at the back and 1 at the bottom: if I lift the PC from the desk, leaving the bottom vent free, the temperature goes down by a good 8-10C. Is this supposed to happen? Now I wan to buy some kind of support for it, but I don't think this should be happening anyway.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Specs:
15.6'' Optimus IV Notebook
Processor: Intel i7-3630QM 2.40GHz
RAM: 12GB Samsung 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2.0GB DDR5
Thermal Paste: Artic MX-4 Extreme
HD: 500GB (only 33% used)
