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November 23, 2013 4:25:50 PM

Good day chaps,

So around a year and a half ago I bought the Acer Aspire V3-571G to use for school work and play some relatively good games. At first it was performing great, above 40 FPS in games such as Bioshock Infinite and Fallout 3 which are quite big games to run and to be running them above 30 FPS, on medium graphics, is great. After having a little break from PC gaming, but still using the laptop for work and such, I found myself to be having issues. It could not do any better than 10 FPS. I shall post the important specs below:


    CPU: Intel Core i5-3210M 2.5GHz (with Turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz)
    GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 630M with 2GB Dedicated VRAM
    RAM: 8GB
    HDD: 750GB


Because it's a laptop I don't know the motherboard or power supply but I researched the components posted above and found out that they are supposed to be "high-end". At first they were performing like they are, but now, they perform like they were made in 2002.

I have posted here to ask the question, does anyone know what has happened? Obviously I have not given you enough information to know EVERYTHING, so of course, ask some questions. But I was just wondering, have I clogged the machine up with junk that has cause it to run slower? Does it just slow down after I've used it many times?

I'm not completely computer illiterate but at the same time, I'm not a genius so if you can help, please try and explain it as if you were talking to a child :p  Any help is appreciated and Thank You if you have read through this :D 

Martin.

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November 23, 2013 4:47:30 PM

You can try cleaning your laptop's fan(s). If they get clogged with dust their ability to dissipate heat is drastically reduced and you end up with thermal throttling of your CPU and GPU.

Another thing to do is to make sure that you are not running a bunch of unnecessary processes in the background. You can go into task manager and end task anything you don't need. You should also make sure your computer isn't running a bunch of bloatware on start-up.
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November 23, 2013 5:24:15 PM

aznricepuff said:
You can try cleaning your laptop's fan(s). If they get clogged with dust their ability to dissipate heat is drastically reduced and you end up with thermal throttling of your CPU and GPU.

Another thing to do is to make sure that you are not running a bunch of unnecessary processes in the background. You can go into task manager and end task anything you don't need. You should also make sure your computer isn't running a bunch of bloatware on start-up.


I am not able to open up the laptop in any way due to the warranty.

I don't like closing processes until I'm absolutely sure what they are. Like the obvious, Skype, Steam, etc.
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a b 4 Gaming
November 23, 2013 5:27:59 PM

In that case you can get a program that monitors real-time temperatures (like Open Hardware Monitor) and use that to check if your temps are too high. If you see anything over 80C for the CPU and 90C for the GPU you are most likely having cooling issues and assuming dust build-up is the problem then there really is no other way to fix it other than cleaning the exhaust vent/fan blades.
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November 23, 2013 6:05:19 PM

aznricepuff said:
In that case you can get a program that monitors real-time temperatures (like Open Hardware Monitor) and use that to check if your temps are too high. If you see anything over 80C for the CPU and 90C for the GPU you are most likely having cooling issues and assuming dust build-up is the problem then there really is no other way to fix it other than cleaning the exhaust vent/fan blades.


I answered to this earlier, didn't seem to appear.

CPU: 60-65C
GPU: 55-60C
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