Wow..Its been a long time i visited this place! I forgot all the help i was given in the past with viruses and stuff!!

Anyways, ive got a question about an AMD processor.

I got myself an HP laptop 2 years back with the following specs :

AMD Turion x2 Dual core Mobile RM-72 2.10GHz, 64 of course.

4 Gig RAM

Installed OS is 32 bit Win 7.

and an ATI gcard (never really researched into which one EXACTLY as i dont do gaming on laptops!)



My issue and questions are as follows,


The fan was WAAY too loud even after some months of purchasing it. I however tried to keep it on hard surfaces so air could go through the vent. There are no holes or vents underneath the laptop, just on the side (pretty stupid if you ask me).

I did PUT up with it for some time but when the laptop became 1 and some months year old, i took it apart and replaced the grease on the processor which was running REALLLY hot. Somewhere between 70-85 Celsius. I checked it just before shutting down and disassembling it and it showed 92 Celsius!!! !!!

It seemed to have worked as i was getting temperatures between 55-60 when i reassembled it .

Then it happened again after approx a month and i did the same thing. Disassembled, cleaned the vents and replaced the grease.

Which worked again.

Now im getting the same thing. Fan runs on full almost all the time and temperatures are realllly high.

Especially when im running firefox with 20+ tabs or photoshop, FRANKLY anything that takes up memory and processing power.


Will a 64 bit Operating system change anything? Will it make the laptop any faster due to the fact that it will recognize all 4 of my ram instead of 2.75?

Is there anything else i can do to keep the processor from running so high temperatures and hence the fan running all the time?

Any help is grreatly appreciated!


Thank you!



Changing the OS unfortunately won't help.
When you take the laptop apart, are the vents or heatsink fins clogged up and dusty? It may just be attracting a lot of dirt, some machines do.
If not, it sounds almost like some sort of contact issue. What I theorise may be happening is that when you reseat the cooler etc, it's all good, making good contact. After a while, maybe due to THERMAL expansion/contraction, the heatsink begins to pull a little AWAY from the chip, making bad contact and causing this. As I said - just a theory.Thanks for taking the time Calum.

The vents are always dusty and when i leave it closed for too long they also get clogged.

Your theory might very well be the matter/reason. I thought of that myself before.

When i opened the laptop the third time i applied grease the previous one which was months old wasnt dried out but was in liquid form even more than it was when i applied it.

If this is the reason what would you advise me to do?

Thanks for the input !What kind of "grease" are you using?A cheap thermal paste i got from a computer store. Cant really remember the brand but it was relatively cheap thus mustve had less amount of silver in it than others. Does it make a significant difference?Quote from: Sander on June 28, 2010, 05:45:07 PM

...Does it make a significant difference?