Cooling for laptop (Overheats)

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alexistheboss15

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I use my Lenovo y500 in a very hot country, and it overheats as I am running SLIs.

I wanted to get a cooling pad, I've owned the coolermaster U3 for a year now and it seems to not be doing much good. Wanted to ask what methods you guys use to stop your laptops from overheating while rendering/gaming
 
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cynicalimpulse

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My laptop is a Samsung 14" Series 3 powered my an A10-4600M APU with a HD 7670m graphics card. When playing certain games the APU would hit 90 to 93 Celsius. After i bought the Coolermaster Notepal X-Slim and temperatures dropped to around 75 to 77 Celsius, so i definitely recommend it!

http://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Master-NotePal-Ultra-Slim-R9-NBC-XSLI-GP/dp/B005C31HC0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403197838&sr=8-1&keywords=notepal+x-slim

Collermaster also released the Notepal X-slim II Which pushes even more air. may want to check that out too.

And just for reference (in case you need it...):

0-40C = Cold.
50-70C = Typical-ish use, still safe.
70-85C = Heavy use, consider moving to flat surface, elevating, or cooling it.
85+ = Hot! Go take a break.

Hope this helps!
 
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Pcbuilder123

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Hi! I have a gaming desktop, but also a laptop with an A10 5700, a 1080p screen, a radeon 7850m, and 6gigs of ram, and play skyrim sometimes. It gets very loud, so what I do is if the situation needs to me dealt with immediatley, get four water bootle caps, and put them under each corner of the laptop. This will let it suck in more air, and face a fan towards it. Save up for a laptop cooling pad. They are like 20$ on amazon:http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Massive23-Notebook-Oversized-CLN0015/dp/B003ZUXXWO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1403206237&sr=8-3&keywords=laptop+cooling+pad
I am guessing you are not in the US because you referred to it as a very hot country, but idk. Just something like that will be good, or just a fan.
 
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Pcbuilder123

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Awesome! Your temperatures actually pretty bad, you should really try to fix that. You can mod the fan to run off of the wall or just make it run off of usb. What are you planning doing? What is the temp under gaming?
 
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cynicalimpulse

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You're temperatures are actually very normal as far as laptops go, even on desktops parts are usually around 30 to 40 Celsius idle. In the case of laptops, the hardware is squished in a small space with less airflow so higher temperatures are to be expected. But 58 Celsius is a tad bit high, but i beleieve is may be the result of dust if anything. Cleaning your laptop vents from dust should improve temperatures.

 
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cheez1111

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As cynicalimpulse states, you laptop temperatures are actually relatively normal. if your laptop runs an APU from AMD, then those temperatures are actually very normal, as APU's can get pretty hot.
 
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Lenovo z585 here. I just keep it clean and it runs great, if it starts getting warm I turn on the dust-removal system which cycles the fan in bursts of it's max speed, and that nets me about a 5-15 degree (Fahrenheit) drop in temps, depending on ambient temp, load, and cpu temp.
 
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