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My brother fried his IBM think pad...and now its doing the same thing as that LOL but too bad its been running for 4 years...

 

You really can't ask the stock laptop cooling setup for much. You're essentially stress testing a passively cooled dual core processor. Passive cooling has been dead since the Pentium 2 days.

With that said, I'm surprised the comp was allowed to run at those temps.

 

dan's lying.... he was trying to watch dirty videos while playing games and the laptop couldn't handle it

 

Lol. As funny as that may be, I doubt it.

Based on the screen shot alone, you know he's telling the truth. Unless it's photoshop'd. Lol.

 

Not that hard to PS and hide the porn in task bar LOL

 

Sounds like you've done this before.

 

lol turn up a/c or do computing on ice. anyways maybe gateway sucks? i doubt you can switch the graphics to an integrated on this one but i guess STOP GAMING or turn the brightness and shit all the way down haha.

 

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anyways, that stress test was only on CPU and RAM. I played some games for an hour or two, and it never went past 88C

no way i can tweak it a little?

and this CPU, i have a big feeling, was overclocked by gateway.. most CPU in gateways m-series are 2.0GHz..

lol.. i'm tempted to try this:

http://icrontic.com/articles/ghetto_cooling_your_laptop

 

I am fully aware of what stress testing does, that's why I mentioned the passive cooling.

You can probably get a few degrees off by lapping the processor and heatsink then applying a better thermal compound. Might also want to look into underclocking the processor.

 

lol i'm not doubting your knowledge, all i was saying was it was only testing the CPU and RAM, but did not test the GPU

anyways, i have a call to gateway, and they want me to send it in... damnnn don't want to do that

 

I wonder if the temps would be higher if you ran 3DMark while stress testing.

Try it!

 

i have the same problem with my laptop...
its a dell, a media one i think, and even if im not gaming on it, it gets hot even when i play films..
i tried to cool it down with them laptop coolers still doesnt work...
(dont even know why im mentionning my laptop, my bf's dad lost it >.<)

 

i'm using some old ass comp fan on the side, and holy fuck, it reduced my temp by 20C

only problem is, it's plugged via AC. time to find one in usb

 

I hide a lot of things when I need to screenshot LOL

 

did he buy you a new one

 

holy... Any problems with it now?

 

I have an Asus laptop. It gets uber hot when I game on it, but on a regular basis it's pretty cool until recently its been heating up so much just playing videos. I'm thinking of sending it in but that will take a couple weeks getting it back...such a hassle.

 

have u tried raising it off the table, so it has a 5 cm gap between it and the table?

 

Its simple, open up that freakin laptop and clean the heatsinks, the fans.

 

couldnt be arsed to read all, but MS came out with a new cool pad for laptops, it cost around 30-40 euros, maybe by one people say it really help.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/microsoft-notebook-cooler-arc-mouse,7244.html