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Overheating problems on a laptop videocard

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sonario

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My friend is having some seemingly serious heat issues with his laptop. He has a 9700GT and while playing COD4 he can play fine for the first couple of minutes with above 100fps but after that it drops down to a consistent 8 or 10fps.

Monitoring his GPU temps it's at about 105 C and idle it hovers around 70 C.

Any ideas what could be causing this/solutions to fix it?

Asus G50v is the laptop model.
 
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The Asus G50v is fairly known to be hot. But your friends GPU is definitely too hot. A lot of people get around 80-90C temp at overclock, so if your friends laptop is not overclocked, there is something wrong with the GPU.

Also check the GPU driver. Make sure they are up to date.
 
Yeah, it's not OC'd. I'm going to take some compressed air and try to clear out some dust on it and see if that fixes it.

Otherwise, do you think the GPU could be failing?
 
he isent putting the laptop on his lap and gaming is he? laptops are suppose to be on a hard flat surface to it can breathe. try a laptop cooler also to put underneath it might help.
 
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