This shall be long.. Scroll down to bottom for the point and my questions!
So I noticed that my GPU on the P-7805u will at times hit anywhere between 90C-105C on load. At one point it was slowly climbing it's way to 90C while at the desktop with no load.
So the story. I've had it for about 3-4 months. Caught it on the deal for $600.00 from Best Buy. I noticed the overheating occuring not too long out of the box, but was hesitant to return as I had to have it shipped from a different Best Buy 800 miles away. After viewing other forums about overheating 9800M GTS cards all of them contained the P-7805u, I actually began to laugh after I'd click and click and keep running into the same thing. I must of read at least 10 different forums where 9800 M GTS cards were overheating and 8/10 of them were associated with a Gateway notebook. Also, customer reviews from Newegg, and other tech sites that sold the item. Anytime I clicked on the "1" ratings they always seemed to deal with the display crashing and / or ridiculous temps coming from the GPU.
I keep the notebook on flat glass with a fan that blows underneath the glass, the fan is used to cool the AC/DC adapter which sits atop it. Hope that makes sense. The GPU has hit 100C-103C for periods of 5-30 minutes in which case the only sign I had was the room getting warmer, hah. It has had an extreme of 104-105 for around 1 minute on a very select few times. Now I've finely fixed it after numerous different methods from other forums, it was funny what actually fixed it though, I'll make a list.
Rivatuner - didn't work
BIOS update -didn't work
GPU Drivers update - didn't work
Creating foam inserts for the rubber feet on the bottom to raise it 1/3" - worked
So I'm under the assumption that somehow the rubber feet on the bottom were not keeping the notebook up high enough to provide adequate airflow. I'm now running a solid 45-50C idle and 70C load max. Oh I never mentioned dust as an issue because if you knew me you'd know I'm an absolute dust freak. I won't go into my dust prevention methods to save time though.
So the final point and questions of this thread!
Gateway notebook engineers suck.
Is it possible that the GPU has been damaged at all in the long run due to it hitting 105C briefly and 100Cish for anywhere from 5-30 minutes more than once?
Should I bother to open an RMA incase any hardware has been damaged in the slightest bit?
I plan on leaving for the Air Force in about 3 months, so I would'nt mind if Gateway took it to inspect it and what not. As long as it doesn't blow up on me down the road all will be great. After all, this will be mobile gaming rig.
Thanks,
Chad
So I noticed that my GPU on the P-7805u will at times hit anywhere between 90C-105C on load. At one point it was slowly climbing it's way to 90C while at the desktop with no load.
So the story. I've had it for about 3-4 months. Caught it on the deal for $600.00 from Best Buy. I noticed the overheating occuring not too long out of the box, but was hesitant to return as I had to have it shipped from a different Best Buy 800 miles away. After viewing other forums about overheating 9800M GTS cards all of them contained the P-7805u, I actually began to laugh after I'd click and click and keep running into the same thing. I must of read at least 10 different forums where 9800 M GTS cards were overheating and 8/10 of them were associated with a Gateway notebook. Also, customer reviews from Newegg, and other tech sites that sold the item. Anytime I clicked on the "1" ratings they always seemed to deal with the display crashing and / or ridiculous temps coming from the GPU.
I keep the notebook on flat glass with a fan that blows underneath the glass, the fan is used to cool the AC/DC adapter which sits atop it. Hope that makes sense. The GPU has hit 100C-103C for periods of 5-30 minutes in which case the only sign I had was the room getting warmer, hah. It has had an extreme of 104-105 for around 1 minute on a very select few times. Now I've finely fixed it after numerous different methods from other forums, it was funny what actually fixed it though, I'll make a list.
Rivatuner - didn't work
BIOS update -didn't work
GPU Drivers update - didn't work
Creating foam inserts for the rubber feet on the bottom to raise it 1/3" - worked
So I'm under the assumption that somehow the rubber feet on the bottom were not keeping the notebook up high enough to provide adequate airflow. I'm now running a solid 45-50C idle and 70C load max. Oh I never mentioned dust as an issue because if you knew me you'd know I'm an absolute dust freak. I won't go into my dust prevention methods to save time though.
So the final point and questions of this thread!
Gateway notebook engineers suck.
Is it possible that the GPU has been damaged at all in the long run due to it hitting 105C briefly and 100Cish for anywhere from 5-30 minutes more than once?
Should I bother to open an RMA incase any hardware has been damaged in the slightest bit?
I plan on leaving for the Air Force in about 3 months, so I would'nt mind if Gateway took it to inspect it and what not. As long as it doesn't blow up on me down the road all will be great. After all, this will be mobile gaming rig.
Thanks,
Chad
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