Did that. There was only a little dust. It helped, but even brand new the video ran hot. I know this because the heat sink exhaust blows out the left side on to my hand (it can get hot enough to make you jerk your hand back during gaming). Design has something to do with it (They gave it minimal cooling hardware to save space.), but the vid card is supposed to be designed for laptop use. Gateway claims they designed the case and cooling around those specs, but Nvidia was way off on their reported specs for heat generation. Many people online claim that there are big flaws in the driver for controlling the cards performance to meet the application demand. It runs at full throttle for even the simplest tasks, generating excess heat. I plan on checking out Rivatuner to tweak what the cards software lacks, when I get time. The problem with laptops is of course, you can't modify physical components much. Maybe I could get a more powerful fan on the heat sink?
Last edited by Kenyth; 12-31-2009 at 02:37 PM.
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