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Cooling fan for overheating?

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FiRe)
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States98 Posts
August 02 2010 19:23 GMT
#1
DO cooling fans even work or stop from the laptop from overheating? I get a lot of different opinions and don't who to trust. Particulary my games lag (except Starcraft broodwar) but everything else SC2, CS:S, 2k, some free rpgs lag 10 minutes into. Yes i cleaned the dust, and it improved a little bit like 10 minutes but it would still lag.

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Flame On!
ReketSomething
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States6012 Posts
August 02 2010 19:24 GMT
#2
I use a cooling fan for my laptop and it definitely helps. When you stick your hand underneath its super cool. The top of the laptop...is still hot though =/
Jaedong :3
Malgrif
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada1095 Posts
August 02 2010 19:27 GMT
#3
yes it helps stop the lag, most of the lag is because of over heating and laptop air flow really sucks without cooling pads.
for there to be pro there has to be noob.
zoltanqc
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
Canada171 Posts
August 02 2010 19:34 GMT
#4
funny I just received this today link. (laptop is asus G73-A1). I cant tell you about the exact temp drop but the keyboard def feels A LOT cooller
AND THEN, THE INTERNETS EXPLODED.
semantics
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
10040 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-02 19:36:52
August 02 2010 19:36 GMT
#5
You could always change thermal paste to something more high quality, depending on laptop getting to the gpu may be easy or hard i recently did it to my laptop and it required me to take apart the whole dam thing. Fans may work depending on how it lines up with your exhaust but it's not going to be drastic unless you play on the carpet or something
FiRe)
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States98 Posts
August 02 2010 19:36 GMT
#6
On August 03 2010 04:34 zoltanqc wrote:
funny I just received this today link. (laptop is asus G73-A1). I cant tell you about the exact temp drop but the keyboard def feels A LOT cooller


lol something cheaper?
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FiRe)
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States98 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-02 19:42:09
August 02 2010 19:41 GMT
#7
so would you guys say that it stopped from overheating and anything you guys would recommend
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2Pacalypse-
Profile Joined October 2006
Croatia9540 Posts
August 02 2010 19:41 GMT
#8
On August 03 2010 04:23 FiRe) wrote:
Particulary my games lag (except Starcraft broodwar)

So what's the problem?
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FiRe)
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States98 Posts
August 02 2010 19:42 GMT
#9
On August 03 2010 04:41 2Pacalypse- wrote:
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On August 03 2010 04:23 FiRe) wrote:
Particulary my games lag (except Starcraft broodwar)

So what's the problem?


sc2 mostly and other steam games as well
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Chunkybuddha
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada347 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-02 20:13:51
August 02 2010 19:55 GMT
#10
Have you tried pasting this frameratecapglue=30 frameratecap=60 into your variables yet? That may fix your sc2 problem.

Laptops aren't meant for gaming though, and you need to fork over heavy cash to make them able to play big games at high graphics.

Whatever you do, never blow a house fan or something like that at your system to "cool" it off. That messes up the entire vent system and can overheat your cpu super quick. Almost did that with the old desktop :O

Also, because its summer, everything gets super hot in my bedroom so most of the time I play games downstairs. My keyboard doesn't even feel hot in the basement, so if you can help it, move to a cooler room temperature because it does help.
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dukethegold
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Canada5645 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-08-02 20:18:48
August 02 2010 20:16 GMT
#11
Perhaps try to buy a laptop cooler?

I have done some considerable amount of research into laptop before. I can recommend these two:

http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-Notepal-Notebook-R9-NBC-8PBK-GP/dp/B002NU5V4A/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1280780103&sr=1-1

http://www.amazon.com/ZALMAN-Ultra-Notebook-Cooler-ZM-NC1000/dp/B000JSFT0Y/ref=sr_1_11?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1243624006&sr=1-11

It may also be a hardware problem. Laptops, especially laptop graphic cards (like the infamous Nvidia 8xxx series), suffer short life expectancy.
HeavOnEarth
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States7087 Posts
August 02 2010 20:30 GMT
#12
On August 03 2010 04:55 Chunkybuddha wrote:
Have you tried pasting this frameratecapglue=30 frameratecap=60 into your variables yet? That may fix your sc2 problem.

Laptops aren't meant for gaming though, and you need to fork over heavy cash to make them able to play big games at high graphics.

Whatever you do, never blow a house fan or something like that at your system to "cool" it off. That messes up the entire vent system and can overheat your cpu super quick. Almost did that with the old desktop :O


Also, because its summer, everything gets super hot in my bedroom so most of the time I play games downstairs. My keyboard doesn't even feel hot in the basement, so if you can help it, move to a cooler room temperature because it does help.

?? i use like a tiny fan pointed at my laptop O_o
"come korea next time... FXO house... 10 korean, 10 korean"
Rotodyne
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
United States2263 Posts
August 02 2010 22:38 GMT
#13
On my brother's computer we opened the case and put a 3 foot diameter circular fan sucking air out of the case. Works like a charm
I can only play starcraft when I am shit canned. IPXZERG is a god.
Chunkybuddha
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Canada347 Posts
August 03 2010 14:49 GMT
#14
On August 03 2010 05:30 HeavOnEarth wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2010 04:55 Chunkybuddha wrote:
Have you tried pasting this frameratecapglue=30 frameratecap=60 into your variables yet? That may fix your sc2 problem.

Laptops aren't meant for gaming though, and you need to fork over heavy cash to make them able to play big games at high graphics.

Whatever you do, never blow a house fan or something like that at your system to "cool" it off. That messes up the entire vent system and can overheat your cpu super quick. Almost did that with the old desktop :O


Also, because its summer, everything gets super hot in my bedroom so most of the time I play games downstairs. My keyboard doesn't even feel hot in the basement, so if you can help it, move to a cooler room temperature because it does help.

?? i use like a tiny fan pointed at my laptop O_o

A lot a lot of heat rises through the keyboard - probably feel it during sc2 - so if you are using a fan, definitely avoid pointing it at your keyboard.

You use a tiny fan so maybe it's not a big deal though? On that note, maybe it's not really doing anything Feel under your laptop and see if those fans are drawing air or blowing air. If both fans are drawing air, point the fan to blow cool air under the laptop, so that way the cpu draws cooler air, that's safe.
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temps
Profile Joined April 2005
Canada62 Posts
August 03 2010 15:57 GMT
#15
I put my laptop up on 4 pop bottle caps.. gives about 1/2 an inch of clearance under the laptop to help airflow and that stopped my issues with overheating without needing to buy a cooling pad.
HeavOnEarth
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States7087 Posts
August 04 2010 01:28 GMT
#16
On August 03 2010 23:49 Chunkybuddha wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2010 05:30 HeavOnEarth wrote:
On August 03 2010 04:55 Chunkybuddha wrote:
Have you tried pasting this frameratecapglue=30 frameratecap=60 into your variables yet? That may fix your sc2 problem.

Laptops aren't meant for gaming though, and you need to fork over heavy cash to make them able to play big games at high graphics.

Whatever you do, never blow a house fan or something like that at your system to "cool" it off. That messes up the entire vent system and can overheat your cpu super quick. Almost did that with the old desktop :O


Also, because its summer, everything gets super hot in my bedroom so most of the time I play games downstairs. My keyboard doesn't even feel hot in the basement, so if you can help it, move to a cooler room temperature because it does help.

?? i use like a tiny fan pointed at my laptop O_o

A lot a lot of heat rises through the keyboard - probably feel it during sc2 - so if you are using a fan, definitely avoid pointing it at your keyboard.

You use a tiny fan so maybe it's not a big deal though? On that note, maybe it's not really doing anything Feel under your laptop and see if those fans are drawing air or blowing air. If both fans are drawing air, point the fan to blow cool air under the laptop, so that way the cpu draws cooler air, that's safe.

Okay, thanks!
"come korea next time... FXO house... 10 korean, 10 korean"
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