I have an Asus N550JV laptop that has the worst cooling design ever. I'm trying to find ways to keep it under 75 degrees Celsius, but I'm having no luck. When the i7-4700HQ CPU hits 50% utilization, the thermals hit 75 and I have Notebook Fancontrol running the fan at 100%, 4500 RPM and its sitting on a cheap cooling pad. Any suggestions? I'm about ready to pull the bottom off and point a table fan at it.
Other than the obvious stuff, Laptops tend to suck when it comes to cooling. Playing games doesnt help that much either.
1) Dont bother limiting the CPU, this wont help much when it comes to temps, youll just lose performance.
2) How old is the laptop? Maybe try taking it apart and using some compressed air to clean it out for better airflow, or even go a further step and put some good thermal paste on the CPU.
3) Keep a cool environment, this includes placing the laptop on a proper surface, no placing it on carpets etc due to added collection of dust. And try to ensure all air vents/airflow areas are clear.
4) Minimise the programs being used, this can take up processing power and memory, therefore leading to higher temps and decreased performance in gaming etc
These were quite general tips but thats mostly all you can do.
Well.. if it's an older machine (1+ year) you could try applying new thermal paste on the hot components (assuming you can get to them without voiding your warranty)
Its about 8 months old and I blew the dust out when I installed an SSD 2 months ago. Part of the reason this happenes is because I like to have TwitchTV on a second display while I game most of the time. I just should have realized a lightweight ultrabook was a bad choice. Why even put an i7 anything into something this thin?
Yup twitch is quite intensive for resources, all my laptops heat up like crazy when watching streams. Theres not much you can do about that, maybe use the twitch mobile app instead? haha
Try this as a laptop cooling pad
I don't watch game streams, but I have to ask. What the hell is so resource intensive about playing an online video? Do they have some sort of proprietary resource hogging video format? Standard 1080p at 24-60 fps should not even matter in today's performance. Does the twitch online player support both HTML5 and flash, or just flash?
EDIT: After reading a bit about Twitch - Do you watch those streams on fullscreen or in a window? It seems like when watching in window, flash uses CPU for rendering the video, while in fullscreen it uses GPU... That might solve your problem. If everything fails, try watching the stream in VLC...
lol, are you angry or something. Im writing in the context of laptops, and the fact that streams are a constant demand in networking and cpu therefore they generate heat, thats all I was saying. So your rant is pointless
I think you misunderstand me. I am just frustrated with lack of optimization. There is no reason for the video streaming service to do any significant heat output on current hardware. Also, from what I gathered, Twitch is quite notorious on being sub-optimized. If a cheap SoC can play 1080p, without any cooling whatsover, why should your laptop get heated by doing basically the same thing? Also. for many users, just switching from their flash player to the same stream playing in VLC changed the game significantly...
GhostRavenstorm should try watching Twitch streams in VLC, or fullscreen with working GPU acceleration. I'd say, I gave advice based on quick research, and my own experience with similar services - I wouldn't say my "rant" was pointless.
ok dude, understandable.
Funny enough I had a roommate that did this it didn't turn out well for their forearms.