Recent content by TotallyNotMikey

Does your ram not smell of smoke? That's a sure fire way to check if the DIMMS have shorted. No pun intended.

Well after about 2 hours of sweat and tears, I opened my laptop and investigated. The fan wasn't clogged up with dust, however there was a tiny bit of dust off to the edge, so I doubt that would have hindered my cooling performance. After removing the heatsink for the CPU and GPU I found the...

Even idle temps seem pretty high. Would opening it, clearing out any dust and smacking on some Artic Silver make things better? I could do that with some sort of guide for my laptop. I know how to open it to access things such as usb ports but have never dived into the motherboard area.

My laptop is an Acer Aspire V3-772G, the GTX 760m variant. Recently I've been having a lot of processor problems, including turning off due to overheating when gaming. I've checked using Realtemp, idle is low 70's and gaming is high 80's, sometimes 90's.. It constantly underclocks itself to...