- Mar 12, 2014
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I recently bought a gaming laptop. The brand name is Avell, and they only assemble using third party hardware (It's actually one of the only providers that offer laptops with such custom configurations such as the one chose, here in Brazil). The brand is well known for good service and respectable manufacturing work. Nothing wrong there. My specs are as follows:
Intel i5-4200m 2.5 Ghz (3.2 when boosted) fourth-gen Haswell architecture, 8GB Corsair Vengeance D-RAM (2x4GB), GeForce 750M 2GB dedicated video memory GPU, 1TB Seagate S-ATA HDD. I have my HDD parted 3:1 running Windows 8 and Linux Ubuntu 12.04 on dual-boot.
Something happened recently, and it's entirely my fault. I was at college doing work while on the ubuntu, and I had my 4 desktops setup in a complicated manner, for C++ programming purposes. We had to leave for a couple of hours or so, and I didn't want to turn the laptop off, 'cause I'd lose my setup. The thing is, Ubuntu is not very optimized for system monitoring and response. So I closed the lid, and the put the laptop INSIDE MY BACKPACK, and put it in a locker. We were out for an hour and a half or so, and when I returned, I found my laptop turned off, intensely and abnormally hot on the GPU side of the equipment (it never heat up like that, even when gaming and or benchmarking). It's probably just my paranoia, but even the HDMI ouptut port seemed a little burnt, like blackened.
So I logged into Windows while plugged in, and noticed the battery wasn't entirely depleted, which means there was an emergency shutdown, most likely due to overheating.Tried to play some games. Was getting some off-the-charts lag spikes. I googled it and found out that 750M was a little known for driver problems. Reinstalled the driver update. Let's try again: success. Games all running smoothly on some pretty pushed settings (Dota 2, Mirror's Edge, Borderlands 2, all from high to maxed settings, more specifically. Full-HD res.). Ok, so no worries there, I GUESS.
It's probably just all in my head, but, could this accidental overheat have possibly damaged my GPU ? How so ? Did I actually cripple it's performance ? I do know my way around software and digital environments, but I'm no whiz when it comes to hardware, at least on mobile form... It's probably my paranoia kicking in, but I mean, I even feel like the laptop casket itself is a little deformed on the side edge. Someone, please, shine some light over the blackness of my ignorance.
Many Thanks in advance.
Intel i5-4200m 2.5 Ghz (3.2 when boosted) fourth-gen Haswell architecture, 8GB Corsair Vengeance D-RAM (2x4GB), GeForce 750M 2GB dedicated video memory GPU, 1TB Seagate S-ATA HDD. I have my HDD parted 3:1 running Windows 8 and Linux Ubuntu 12.04 on dual-boot.
Something happened recently, and it's entirely my fault. I was at college doing work while on the ubuntu, and I had my 4 desktops setup in a complicated manner, for C++ programming purposes. We had to leave for a couple of hours or so, and I didn't want to turn the laptop off, 'cause I'd lose my setup. The thing is, Ubuntu is not very optimized for system monitoring and response. So I closed the lid, and the put the laptop INSIDE MY BACKPACK, and put it in a locker. We were out for an hour and a half or so, and when I returned, I found my laptop turned off, intensely and abnormally hot on the GPU side of the equipment (it never heat up like that, even when gaming and or benchmarking). It's probably just my paranoia, but even the HDMI ouptut port seemed a little burnt, like blackened.
So I logged into Windows while plugged in, and noticed the battery wasn't entirely depleted, which means there was an emergency shutdown, most likely due to overheating.Tried to play some games. Was getting some off-the-charts lag spikes. I googled it and found out that 750M was a little known for driver problems. Reinstalled the driver update. Let's try again: success. Games all running smoothly on some pretty pushed settings (Dota 2, Mirror's Edge, Borderlands 2, all from high to maxed settings, more specifically. Full-HD res.). Ok, so no worries there, I GUESS.
It's probably just all in my head, but, could this accidental overheat have possibly damaged my GPU ? How so ? Did I actually cripple it's performance ? I do know my way around software and digital environments, but I'm no whiz when it comes to hardware, at least on mobile form... It's probably my paranoia kicking in, but I mean, I even feel like the laptop casket itself is a little deformed on the side edge. Someone, please, shine some light over the blackness of my ignorance.
Many Thanks in advance.
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