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My laptop heats up rather quickly.

Is there any way I can get it to stay cooler?
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Re: My laptop heats up rather quickly.

Kill processes you don't use, and get one of these:
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My graphics cards cooling fan broke so it overheats in like 3 minutes now so I took the side of of the compute rand have a big fan aimed at it. Laugh
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Depends on your laptop. Having some kind of CPU auto-underclocking feature is useful. Basically what that does is keeps your CPU running slower until it needs full power, then it clocks it up again but only for as long as necessary.
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Thought Criminal Wrote:My graphics cards cooling fan broke so it overheats in like 3 minutes now so I took the side of of the compute rand have a big fan aimed at it. Laugh
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Niggers wouldn't be smart enough to think that up. I was actually kinda proud of myself when i thought of it. Laugh
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lol, you got a point.
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Re: My laptop heats up rather quickly.

Put fucktons of games cases or books or shit under it to get proper ventilation.
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RE: My laptop heats up rather quickly.

This is bump fagging a old thread but I'll post my experiences.

My laptop fan just flat out died one day, well you can hear it running once in a blue moon for like 5 minutes. Anyway I got one of those external cooling pad things and it worked okay, Then I made a cardboard flap to dirrect all the fan airflow to one side of my laptop, works okay now, still overheats at times.

Turns out there is a fan re-call, fuckers.
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RE: My laptop heats up rather quickly.

I tried putting my laptop on top of a wet rag and that seems to keep it cool.
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That seems like a really bad idea for some reason. Razz
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RE: My laptop heats up rather quickly.

(07-08-2010 01:03 AM)BaronVonStrangle Wrote:  Put fucktons of games cases or books or shit under it to get proper ventilation.

Or just buy a ridiculously large battery to prop it up with. My 10" netbook is proped up by a nine cell battery. When I purchased it, it only came with a three cell..
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RE: My laptop heats up rather quickly.

What CPU are you using? How much % is your CPU and RAM running at and how much load is on it (%age)? And %age of load on idle?
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put it in a huge bowl of icy water
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(11-26-2011 04:21 AM)gore goroth Wrote:  I tried putting my laptop on top of a wet rag and that seems to keep it cool.

I quit doing that and got a nifty little thingamajig you sit your laptop on that has fans on it.
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RE: My laptop heats up rather quickly.

Build-up of dust inside, most likely.
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