^u can call HP center at penang or google.

Reapplying thermal paste involves dismantling the laptop right? I'd rather not risk it... Anyways I'm going New Zealand in a month's time anyways so the temperature should be ALOT lower by then haha.

Yeah you need to disassemble the laptop. What is your idle temp btw? With AMD GPU turn on.

Around 50-ish for normal laptop usage (web browsing, music, videos). Intel GPU abit lower.

That's very normal..what drivers are you using for AMD?

The 12.1 preview. Oh could be the driver's problem since it's not really 'complete' yet right?

I'm using the same driver and my temps are alright. But again I haven't tried running Witcher 2. You're using a 7690m XT instead of 6770M right?

Yup. Shouldn't be that much of a difference. What temps are you getting while playing games?

The max I got was 87C for the GPU without cooler on a warm afternoon, was playing Skyrim, L4D2, NFS etc though.
CPU temps went up to 95C. Games like L4D and Starcraft stress the CPU more.

EDIT: I did have a small USB powered fan blowing across the keyboard though

This post has been edited by keyzjh: Jan 20 2012, 03:50 PM

Hmm I see. Played a little bit of Arkham City just now and CPU temp maxed at 90c. GPU temps actually stabilize at the 80's but then it'll slowly increase till 93c. Fans don't start making noise till 90c though.

50-ish on idle with AMD gpu is about right. In OpenHardwareMonitor, max cpu frequencies = 2ghz right?

You can go service centre and ask them to reapply the TP for you tho.

What TP will they apply though? :/
Any center near KL?
I need to ask about my Care Pack.
They sent me an e-mail saying that what I faxed was not complete

http://www8.hp.com/my/en/contact-hp/office-locations.html

Yup. Meaning I shouldn't really worry right?

Is throttlestop easy to use? I am still curious as to whether the extra 600-900MHz from turboboost will affect gaming performance

^ Yeah very easy to use.

Btw..
Dota 2 with TurboBoost


Dota 2 without TurboBoost


Framerates wise, i don't see any significant difference. Minimum fps without TB might be lower but average FPS is pretty similar. This game should be play @60fps, because i get microstutter when the frame went over 70fps so make sure to play it with Vsync on or use frame limiter program.


Fix it and resend back to them?


Hmm.. 80-ish without cooler is normal for me. Try get a laptop cooler or use a tablefan.

Hmm not too much difference on CPU temperatures, as long as it is below 95 it should be safe. Quite a significant difference during encoding though

^ yeah.. when encoding i definitely turn it on.

there are games that get benefit with turbo on, like SC2 and COD series maybe.

THing is...what they stated that's not complete....has already been filled out lol.

lol.. if u have scanner, scan it and email back to them. if its not clear enough.. start photoshop.