u/Happy-Tough6249

GUYS I FIXED IT!!!!!

I bought this gaming laptop for $50, owner claimed that the CPU “overheated” and that he took it to a professional and the professional said that the CPU was bad and it needed a new mobo.

I opened the laptop and there was thermal paste on the VRM and VRAMS! Which there shouldn’t be. I bought a PTM7950 pad and thermal grizzly putty. After hours of it still overheating I found out the layer of thermal paste provided by the pads was too thin, I went over it with thermal paste and LO AND BEHOLD!! IT WORKS!!

Specs:

ASUS G17 ROG STRIX

Ryzen 9 5900HX

32GB RAM

1tb SSD

RTX 3070