I have a few laptop PC's that on occasion are used to play games on. It is very rare that at a small lan gathering everyone will have their PC's so they are forced to play on my machines here. Now these laptops are not exactly amazing, they are basically rejected PC's from an office in the city. With only 3GB ram 2.0ghz dual core and an intergrated 326mb gfx card they heat up in seconds after loading windows xp. I ran some tests on them and found that their CPU heat peaks at 51 degrees Celsius and HDD is peaking at 43 degrees Celsius.
Are these temperatures that bad? If they were one of my desktop PC's I would be worried but laptops seem more compacted, so I assumed overheating was a major factor in their design so they are probably made to be very heat resistant or something.
Yes notebook coolers DO make a difference, the heat you feel if you actually use a laptop on your lap basically goes nowhere fast. Any type of active cooling helps.
On a side note, i don't see those temps as a huge issue, although that depends on the thermal tolerances of the cpu / gpu in the laptop.
This post has been edited by GiDeoN: Nov 1 2009, 19:36 PM
It is very rare that at a small lan gathering everyone will have their PC's so they are forced to play on my machines here.
Now these laptops are not exactly amazing, they are basically rejected PC's from an office in the city.
With only 3GB ram 2.0ghz dual core and an intergrated 326mb gfx card they heat up in seconds after loading windows xp.
I ran some tests on them and found that their CPU heat peaks at 51 degrees Celsius and HDD is peaking at 43 degrees Celsius.
Are these temperatures that bad?
If they were one of my desktop PC's I would be worried but laptops seem more compacted, so I assumed overheating was a major factor in their design so they are probably made to be very heat resistant or something.
Anyway do the notebook coolers make a big difference?
You know, the ones with the two fans on the bottom.
http://www.dealsdirect.com.au/p/portable-l...oldable-design/
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