T60p Overheat issues

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T60p Overheat issues

#1 Post by rjb5065 » Wed Mar 21, 2012 8:57 pm

Hey guys, I have had my Lenovo t60p for 5 years now. I upgraded the ram to 4gb, and recently reformatted. When I play a game, specifically world of warcraft my gpu temp cranks up to over 100c. Im pretty sure the warranty has ended, but Im wondering what I can do to, if anything, to lower the heat coming from my gpu.

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Re: T60p Overheat issues

#2 Post by LessThanEqual » Thu Mar 22, 2012 2:38 am

You can clean the whole thing and replace the thermal paste on the CPU and the GPU.
Current ThinkPads:
E320 (8GB RAM, Core i3 2330m, Radeon 6630m), T61 (C2D T7100, 2GB RAM).

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Re: T60p Overheat issues

#3 Post by TuuS » Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:36 am

Yikes!!! stop playing games on that system until it's fixed!!!

Your T60p uses a soft gel-pad to cool the gpu, it's probably in pretty bad shape, so you have a couple options.

1. replace the heatsink with a NEW one.

2. clean the heatsink, remove the gel-pad and replace it with arctic silver #5 thermal paste

3. get a T61p heatsink and do the above.

The T61p heatsink is superior and uses three heatpipes. I've modded T60p units with them and they work great and run much cooler. If you want one shoot me a PM and I'll get you one.

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Re: T60p Overheat issues

#4 Post by rjb5065 » Thu Mar 22, 2012 7:54 pm

TuuS wrote:Yikes!!! stop playing games on that system until it's fixed!!!

Your T60p uses a soft gel-pad to cool the gpu, it's probably in pretty bad shape, so you have a couple options.

1. replace the heatsink with a NEW one.

2. clean the heatsink, remove the gel-pad and replace it with arctic silver #5 thermal paste

3. get a T61p heatsink and do the above.

The T61p heatsink is superior and uses three heatpipes. I've modded T60p units with them and they work great and run much cooler. If you want one shoot me a PM and I'll get you one.
awesome how much do those cost?

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Re: T60p Overheat issues

#5 Post by TuuS » Sun Apr 01, 2012 12:34 am

rjb5065 wrote:
awesome how much do those cost?
Seems you don't check your inbox, I answered this question over a week ago but the message was never read.

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Re: T60p Overheat issues

#6 Post by feistmann » Fri May 18, 2012 2:21 pm

I have the same problem, and would like to find out how to convert to the t61p heatsink. I will check my inbox :-) Thanks.

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