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Overheating laptop
Created 18th November 2010 @ 16:53
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Hello!
I bought a laptop few months ago and it was great until recently. I was able to play TF2, MW2, AC2 etc with no problems what so ever, but about a week ago my laptop did an auto-shutdown while I was playing, and now after playing TF2 for 10 minutes on a action heavy server my FPS drops to 20-30 and I get auto-shutdown after playing MW2 for an hour or so. My only guess is that my GPU or CPU somehow magicly started to overheat, so I downloaded software to check the temperatures. When my laptop starts to slow down the readings are ~75C for CPU and 80C for GPU. As far as I remember, the emergency shutdown temperatures for regular CPU’s and GPU’s are way higher than that (some even up to 120C iirc).
So, my question is this: is this problem really related to overheating or should I try to search for some software problems/solutions?
P.S.: I would appreciate no “laptops are bullshit blablabla” and similar comments.
75 is very bad w/ AMD, not so bad with Intel. Probably a CPU overheat. Get SpeedFan to log up to shutdown.
My CPU is i3-350M, so, as you said, it’s not that bad?
no, laptops are bullshit to be playing games on
use fps_max 61 where possible, lower it where possible, or use vsync if else fails
or use cooling pads, not cool but they do the work
shutdown temps are dependent on model and not if its laptop or not (tho laptops usually have 100C limit even if hardware doesnt fail at that temp)
the slow down is normal once temps go above critical temp, dont think there is software related problem
edit: intel should be fine until ~80-90 before dropping mhz and as far as i know, it doesnt shut down just drops till like 400mhz (at which point it prolly will hang) i think prob is in gpu
Last edited by AnimaL,
Quoted from exm
My CPU is i3-350M, so, as you said, it’s not that bad?
90 degrees is maximum temp on that CPU, however it may be set to shut down at a lot lower temps. check the bios
Quoted from AnimaL
no, laptops are bullshit to be playing games on
are not :((((((
It may also be helpful to let us know the make and model of the laptop so that some of us can nerd search known problems. ;)
Have you checked for dust?
Quoted from hans
Have you checked for dust?
I can’t. Theres warranty stickers everywhere, so I can’t really open it without breaking the warranty.
My laptop model is Acer Aspire 5741G with i3-350M processor and GF GT320M graphics card.
i had same problem when i played with laptop, try not to keep the laptop on table all the time, try to put book or something under it so it can get air, that helped for me. I didnt play very much with laptop, so might be just me :P
Quoted from GeneSIS^
i had same problem when i played with laptop, try not to keep the laptop on table all the time, try to put book or something under it so it can get air, that helped for me. I didnt play very much with laptop, so might be just me :P
Or just a cooling pad :) but yeah if I didn’t have one of these I wouldn’t be able to play for as long as I can. It’s not the fact that there is a fan under the laptop but because you lift it up a bit so the heat goes away faster.
I had Acer with p8400. It dropped fps at 85C, but didn’t shut down. I used cooling pad to keep CPU cool and clean (pad filters air a bit).
You see, I wouldn’t be surprised that my laptop is overheating. The one thing I can not understand is why I could have played for hours without any FPS drops, and then suddenly BAM- I get auto-shutdowns?
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