Recent content by jamesv3

Problem solved! It appears that it was indeed the thermal paste not conducting heat properly as now my chip is performing at a normal level and at expected temperatures. The problem that I perceived with the under-clocking in gpu-z disappeared when running a game and all clocks jumped back up to...

Update: I have replaced the old fan with a brand new fan, and have cleaned off and replaced the old thermal paste with gc gelid extreme thermal paste. Looking at gpu-z, the temperature of my 650m chip now stays under 50 C even when running a game. However I am still experiencing the same...

As an update I have ordered liquid metal pads for my GPU (also the CPU) and a replacement fan, I will update the thread in a while with the results. Thanks! Hopefully my card hasn't already been fried.

Hello, so I have a clevo w110er laptop which has been experiencing horrible performance loss, which doesn't make sense to me. When I first got the laptop in 2012 I could play Battlefield 3 on medium settings, now my computer has trouble running 2D action games like The Swindle. (getting 10fps in...

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Around 7 months ago, I sent my sager laptop in for repairs, the case was cracked and the hard drive was failing. For financial reasons my laptop sat on the shelf for that time. I just got it back about a week ago, the casing was fixed but I am replacing the dying hard drive myself (Side note...