The "BEST" way to FIX an OVERHEATING gaming laptop... By Dawid Does Tech Stuff

Today we're going all in on consumer advice. So if you have a gaming laptop that runs hotter than the surface of mercury, this is probably one of the ways that you'll get some of the best gaming temperatures. Now before you ask. No it's not going to be particularly practical and 99.9 percent of people should never do this, but those temperatures sure are sexy as hell, and that's the only thing that matters now. First things. First, we need to get a baseline reading of just how bad the temperatures are on this racer blade 14 and what the gaming performance is like, so that we can see how much of a difference it makes and just how proud we should be of ourselves.

So with that, let's see how bad it really is with battlefield 5, both the CPU and the GPU hover at around 90 degrees Celsius, sometimes actually going over 90 degrees Celsius. But then the fans go ham to try and control those temperatures, all of which is a big no-no. After about 10 minutes of running Ida, 64 and fur mark we're sitting at about 92 degrees Celsius on the CPU and about 86 degrees Celsius, on the GPU and with those core frequencies. So let's open up this razor blade and see how much we can drop these temperatures and what kind of overclock we can get. Now that we've revealed the innards of the laptop, we need to have a quick discussion about how we're actually going to cool this situation better now.

My first idea was to try and use an AIO on each of these dies. The graphics card is this one and the CPUs that one the problem with AIDS is that you can't just kind of rest the block on the die, because there's not going to be enough pressure from the top of like the weight of the cooler to actually maintain decent thermal contact. As you can see here, you can get an AIO block down onto the CPU, but you know: there's nothing really keeping it there, so we're probably going to have to use just normal tower air coolers here with the tower cooler. It's it stays in place and the weight of the cooler pushing down does help maintain thermal contact, but there's so little clearance for two coolers next to each other. So I'm going to go get another small is tower cooler and then see if we can actually fit them next to each other on this laptop now.

This is the other cooler than I thought about using. But, as you can see here, it's got these big ears that mean that it doesn't, it doesn't quite fit in there. So I'm going to see what other options I have now, this riven justice, 2 space, wise, just fits on there. The problem is, it's not very stable, like it falls over really easily that CPU die is actually a really stupid shape, so it means that it's a really unstable base for these coolers. Now this is starting to look really stupid, which means we're slowly getting close to a solution.

If you look down here, they're both actually making contact. So that's a good sign this. This may work. The only thing is, I need to get both of the fans blowing in the same direction so that they don't death match in the middle there, and then we may be good this. Maybe this may be a working solution to the razor blades heating problems, cooling problems.

So now all I'm going to do is I'm going to clean them up I'm going to do a fresh thermal paste application set the laptop up in a way that we can plug it into external stuff, and then we may have the ultimate racer blade gaming setup for maybe six years ago, we're getting very close to the point where we can actually switch on this monstrosity. Now I just want to make it clear again. This is not a good idea, and you really shouldn't try it at home, there's a bunch of metal closes to things that can short out down there, and you could very easily destroy your laptop, although I did try my best to make sure that nothing's touching anything that will short out um but yeah it's looking. Okay, we've got decent looking contact. I did actually end up taping.

The two coolers together because they were leaning away from each other like this, so now they're, nice and secure on their respective dies and then on this side I've got an OCTA NF a12, that's just blowing onto the actual motherboard to help cool like the power delivery and the memory modules down there and stuff. So that's just additional cooling, because there's a bunch of extra fans I'm actually having to use an external power supply to power, uh the three extra fans that we have uh yeah. So that's probably not going to impact portability too much um. I guess now's the moment of truth. It is gonna, be very precarious getting to the power button because it's in the middle of the laptop.

So I'm gonna. This isn't gonna, be a fun process, but let's see if I can get it on without knocking the whole assembly down. Oh, it's not plugged in oh I'm! So dumb! Oh, I think we got it. Yes, we do so. We've just started, and we're sitting at about 73 degrees Celsius already on the GPU.

So it's its definitely running cooler than it was before. But it's actually not as cool as I thought it would be. When I push down on the cooler the temperature drops by a good 10 degrees. Look at that, okay, so there's clearly a mounting pressure issue. So what I thought is- maybe if I just drop like this on there, okay, apparently that's not enough weight uh! Let me go find someone else, because again, just look at that.

Look at that temperature drop holy crap. Okay. I need to find a way to mount this better, because if I let it go, it just rockets straight back up, okay, um, wait! Is it just if I lean it back? Okay, actually, all I need to do is I need another bit of tape and I just need it a bit tighter. This is terrifying to do while this thing's running like if something falls over, it could kill the laptop. So again, this is a awful idea.

Okay, so I'm gonna just lean the cooler back. I mean that's way better, literally just that bit of tape made a 20 degree difference to the temperatures. The GPU is sitting at a 5152 degrees Celsius, which is almost 40 degrees Celsius, less than the stock configuration, and then the CPU is more than 40 degrees Celsius cooler. So that is a huge difference in temperatures. So what I'm going to do? What I'm going to do now is some benchmarks, and then I'm going to see how far we can overclock this.

This whole thing, so I just added another bit of tape, and we actually managed to drop the temperature even further, which is pretty funny that didn't seem to help the gaming performance that much these results were pretty much within the margin of error. Although the 1 lows for both of the games were better, and that does make sense, because we're not running into thermal limitations here, there's a more stable core frequency, which leads to a more stable frame rate. Now after this slight victory, I guess I decided to try and overclock the CPU and the GPU, because we have so much extra thermal headroom available now. This unfortunately went even worse than just the normal gaming results well kind of after about an hour of trying to overclock the GPU. The best I could do was plus 50 megahertz on the core uh with the CPU.

We did a bit better. We hit about an extra 200 megahertz in the actual boost frequency which for battlefield 5 made a little of a difference, but with GTA 5 it did about as much good as a fought in a hurricane here I don't know why, but the results are actually worse. Somehow I did retry them and there was still worse, and then I tried a little to fix it, and then I very quickly lost interest, but there you go apparently overclocking doesn't help much. So with that. After all of that effort, we, you know managed to cut our temperatures in half, but it made no real world gaming performance difference and if anything, we managed to make a laptop, even less practical than a desktop PC, because if you just bump this table even once your whole life can just come crashing down in a pile of flames, so yeah.

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