Laptop overheating during gaming.

xraycat87

xraycat87

xraycat87

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Hi there

I'm playing Guild Wars 2, but after 3mins or so, the fan kicks in at 100% and stays there. After a few mins you can feel the laptop getting hot. It doesnt turn off as such but you can feel its boiling. I'm tempted to sell it despite it being a decent spec and making a desktop.

I havent got any software to tell you what temps im getting as I dont know what one to get or if laptops have sensors.

Ive seen notebook coolers and wondering would that help. or can i take the dvd drive away and making some sort of mass cooling system?
 
What surface are you using it on, are the vents blocked at all. Is it old, is it full of dust.

It won't be boiling, it'll just be hot. If it was being damaged then it'd throttle back / shutdown. Laptops have sensors in them.
 
Well temp checks said it was 95c the other night before I changed a few settings on GW2 which made it run 75/80c

Fan/vent seem clear as its only 6 months old. Surface, its on a bit of wood but I have it held up so it has around 1/2 inches space between the laptop and surface to allow airflow.
 
No idea how GW2 runs (or what it is ;)) but how about frame limiting? If it play CSS on my laptop its trundles along at 150+ fps and gets warm, frame limit to 59 and it's cool to the touch ;)
 
Yeah thats what I did, Limiting it from 45/50 fps to 30. Considering I only have intel3000, those extra fps were causing a lot of heat.
 
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