Overheating Laptop
- Thread starter Kylon
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- Sep 5, 2004
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Cooling pads are good in a way but also force a lot more dust and debris into your chassis, I spent a lot of time researching mine before I bought it and I must say its a Cadillac it has a 2.5" hdd dock built into it as well as 4 x usb 3.0 ports. It is also dependant on its own power supply but for a gaming desktop you can never have too much storage space especially when video editing. My Alienware M17x R4 is a bad ass cooling machine with 2 front air intakes as well as two bottom air intakes and is exhausted directly out the rear. For $1750 it was a hell of a deal with i7 3630 cpu a 2 gb nvidea 660m video card and 16 gb ram.
- Jan 14, 2004
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Your worrying too much
It depends on the hardware but laptop graphics cards can run at about 90c safely no problem, CPUs about the same. You want to keep your HDD at about 50c but that's usually not a problem.
To the OP:
Put your hand over the vent on your laptop when its overheating and see whether it is chucking out a lot of hot air. If it isnt then something is restricting the airflow. Make sure there is not a big dust pile up in the actual vent - ive seen some laptops that had a dust pile up so bad and compact in there that the dust actually looked like a sponge and customers presumed it was some sort of protective padding so they didnt remove it when de-dusting lol. In short, you should be able to feel a good force of air being pushed out when your fan ramps up, and the air should be hot (not cool) to indicate its all working properly.
Another thing you can do is change your thermal paste under the heatsinks. After a couple of years thermal paste can get crusty and not work as well preventing your cpu/gpu from transferring heat through the heatsinks for the fan to disperse. Generally, stock thermal paste applied when electronics are made is usually cheap crappy stuff to cut down costs, so its always worth changing anyway. Get some Arctic MX-2 or Arctic Silver 5 from eBay, only a couple of quid for a small tube.
If you dont know what thermal paste is or how to change it just do a quick youtube search. With laptops you can normally just open up the underside panel to get access to your heatsinks so its only a 5 min job.
Put your hand over the vent on your laptop when its overheating and see whether it is chucking out a lot of hot air. If it isnt then something is restricting the airflow. Make sure there is not a big dust pile up in the actual vent - ive seen some laptops that had a dust pile up so bad and compact in there that the dust actually looked like a sponge and customers presumed it was some sort of protective padding so they didnt remove it when de-dusting lol. In short, you should be able to feel a good force of air being pushed out when your fan ramps up, and the air should be hot (not cool) to indicate its all working properly.
Another thing you can do is change your thermal paste under the heatsinks. After a couple of years thermal paste can get crusty and not work as well preventing your cpu/gpu from transferring heat through the heatsinks for the fan to disperse. Generally, stock thermal paste applied when electronics are made is usually cheap crappy stuff to cut down costs, so its always worth changing anyway. Get some Arctic MX-2 or Arctic Silver 5 from eBay, only a couple of quid for a small tube.
If you dont know what thermal paste is or how to change it just do a quick youtube search. With laptops you can normally just open up the underside panel to get access to your heatsinks so its only a 5 min job.
- Jun 17, 2007
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As mentioned, this is to do with the way this mir is coded and the way it requires hardware to run. I personally have noticed an increase on my PC and that gets hot as its just a standard fan on the processor. I currently run, AMD Phenom x6 Cores, 4 Gig DDR3 1600 ram, 1 TB HDD 10k RPM 6Gig data transfer, graphics card lets it down as a ATI 9000 Series with 2 gig ddr3 ram