I have a 5-6 year old gateway (P-7811fx) gaming laptop which I used steady for 4 years before getting a desktop last year. My reason for getting the desktop was due in part to the abysmal gaming performance I was getting out of my laptop in those last few months. I thought it was just because my system was cluttered and a OS reinstall would solve it, turns out it didn't.
I loaded CoD 4, pretty lightweight by today's standards but I can't play a 10 minute match on very low graphics settings without my graphics card power getting killed (eg turned off) automatically while ingame. I monitored temps ingame with MSI afterburner and they never seem to go above 80.
In an attempt to pinpoint the problem I installed OCCT and ran a 6 minute gfx card stress test, passed with flying colors. However, when I bumped the test up to 7 minutes the gfx card hit 90C and my system shut down my graphics card like a charm (eg running with no display).
Now I have cleaned this laptop inside out, takes about 2 hours, but it still is overheating. I have it suspended a good inch in the air and it still overheats. Both fans still work and increase speed when I am gaming/testing so I don't think it's a fan problem.
When I first bought the laptop (new) I never had an overheating problem, didn't clean it for 2 years (noob) and it was running hot but it's been clean as a whistle since.
I'm just wondering if this could be a voltage problem and if I should try underclocking my GPU?
I loaded CoD 4, pretty lightweight by today's standards but I can't play a 10 minute match on very low graphics settings without my graphics card power getting killed (eg turned off) automatically while ingame. I monitored temps ingame with MSI afterburner and they never seem to go above 80.
In an attempt to pinpoint the problem I installed OCCT and ran a 6 minute gfx card stress test, passed with flying colors. However, when I bumped the test up to 7 minutes the gfx card hit 90C and my system shut down my graphics card like a charm (eg running with no display).
Now I have cleaned this laptop inside out, takes about 2 hours, but it still is overheating. I have it suspended a good inch in the air and it still overheats. Both fans still work and increase speed when I am gaming/testing so I don't think it's a fan problem.
When I first bought the laptop (new) I never had an overheating problem, didn't clean it for 2 years (noob) and it was running hot but it's been clean as a whistle since.
I'm just wondering if this could be a voltage problem and if I should try underclocking my GPU?