AMD A8-4500M overheating

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I'm not tech savvy, so don't ask me to go into the BIOS or talk to me in geek terms. Also, I have no intentions of taking apart the laptop. I have speecy and CPUIDHWMonitor.

Specs:
Model: Acer Aspire v3-551-8883
8GB DDR3 RAM
750 GB on the HDD
AMD Radeon Graphics
Quad Core w/ Turbo
AMD A8 Vision

While not gaming, it's at 95-110C (fluxuating). While gaming (Mainly CS:GO), it reaches 115C. I have a cooling fan underneath that does sh*t all, and my fan shows barely any signs of it actually spinning. Ran a hair dryer on cold air through the fan to get some dust out (which it did, a lot of it), but still nothing. HELP ME
 
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nikoli707
the temp programs are reading trinity wrong. i have an a10 laptop similar to yours and i get the same through the roof readings. i redid the thermal paste and temps did drop a bit, but what your seeing is completely wrong. over 100c you would literally smell burning electronics and your keyboard would feel tremendously hot. 110c... 115c, forget it... that would be catastrophic meltdown.

your laptop has thermal protection, it will just shutdown if temps are nearing limits. as long as your not choking the intake/exhaust ports and you are actively doing your best to keep dust from accumulating, then your good.
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the temp programs are reading trinity wrong. i have an a10 laptop similar to yours and i get the same through the roof readings. i redid the thermal paste and temps did drop a bit, but what your seeing is completely wrong. over 100c you would literally smell burning electronics and your keyboard would feel tremendously hot. 110c... 115c, forget it... that would be catastrophic meltdown.

your laptop has thermal protection, it will just shutdown if temps are nearing limits. as long as your not choking the intake/exhaust ports and you are actively doing your best to keep dust from accumulating, then your good.
 
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At those temps, the fan should be screaming. If it's not, either the fan has failed or the temp reporting is inaccurate.

Start by getting a can of compressed air and use it to blow the dust out of the vents. Also, refrain from using the laptop on any soft surfaces such as your bed, lap or carpeted floor as it can block the vents on the bottom.
 
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Is this a trinity thing? Cause I recently installed Coretemp and I know they don't read AMD correctly (at least some of them). Also sometimes (very uncommon) there is a burning smell, but its very faint and there is no performance damage.

Now if I do not have the cooling fan on, about 20 minutes of gaming (anything else is fine, gaming in particular) would cause the computer to panic shutdown, like you said. Now my concern is the cooling fan actually blocking the underside of the cpu fan -- verry small space between the laptop and fan, I'm worried that it's not actually doing anything.

SIDE NOTE: Just now I also decided maybe vacuuming would do it. Took a 700W Shark vacuum (my lights dimmed!) to it and nothing doing
 
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Would probably go out tomorrow to get a can, I don't have one :3 also, I used to have an HP that almost charred a bedsheet because I had gone to the bathroom -- never again, never again :p
 
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Google Chrome is literally the only thing that is optionally running (sweeped my Task Manager), and this is Speecy:
AMD A8-4500M 100 °C
Trinity 32nm Technology

I don't understand how so much heat could even be in one spot. My graphics card is 48C and storage is 37C
 
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Going with nikoli's answer. Just checked in-depth of the CPU temps -- it reads all 4 cores of the same temp -- not possible, and most likely improbable because Google Chrome doesn't run on 4 cores :p Must be faulty, cause my hand is not hot at all when I touch it
 
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