- May 28, 2015
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Hey guys,
I recently bought a laptop and was fortunate enough to be able to buy one with some scope for gaming. Nothing fancy, but able to handle somewhat recent, fairly low-requirement stuff from the last few years - like Skyrim, Tomb Raider, etc.
I had a pleasant surprise when I found out it could also run some slightly more demanding games that it didn't meet minimum spec for, well within what I consider to be acceptable standards (I'll settle for low level graphics and 20 - 25fps quite happily as long as there's no lag).
Problem is, when I do this, the laptop is obviously under full load, the fan goes crazy, etc.
I got a cooling pad and installed Open Hardware Monitor to check up on the temperatures, and based on some research, they seem to be maintaining safe, stable temperatures for hours on end.
But I'm slightly worried that running the machine at this level - with the fan on high for many hours at a time - will damage the laptop.
I understand that any machine that is heavily used will ultimately have a slightly reduced lifespan, but I'd like to know if I'm putting myself at serious risk for some kind of catastrophic hardware failure if I keep regularly using it like this?
I have a HP Pavilion 15-p289sa:
CPU: AMD A10 5745M APU (2.1 GHz, quad core, turbo to 2.9GHz)
RAM: 16gigs
GPU: Radeon R7 m260 (2gigs VRAM)
After several hours (on cooling pad), CPU temperature is fairly stable at ~75C, with a peak of ~78C, and GPU is more variable, swinging between 73C and 80C with peaks of ~83C. The fan will be on high most of the time, sometimes shifting down to mid-level before going back up to high several minutes later.
As I said, I'm not very familiar with laptop gaming having never had one that could handle it before, but my understanding is that these temperatures are pretty safe in terms of hardware damage? I'm guessing I might break the fan itself (though that can be replaced), but are these temperatures relatively safe for extended periods?
I recently bought a laptop and was fortunate enough to be able to buy one with some scope for gaming. Nothing fancy, but able to handle somewhat recent, fairly low-requirement stuff from the last few years - like Skyrim, Tomb Raider, etc.
I had a pleasant surprise when I found out it could also run some slightly more demanding games that it didn't meet minimum spec for, well within what I consider to be acceptable standards (I'll settle for low level graphics and 20 - 25fps quite happily as long as there's no lag).
Problem is, when I do this, the laptop is obviously under full load, the fan goes crazy, etc.
I got a cooling pad and installed Open Hardware Monitor to check up on the temperatures, and based on some research, they seem to be maintaining safe, stable temperatures for hours on end.
But I'm slightly worried that running the machine at this level - with the fan on high for many hours at a time - will damage the laptop.
I understand that any machine that is heavily used will ultimately have a slightly reduced lifespan, but I'd like to know if I'm putting myself at serious risk for some kind of catastrophic hardware failure if I keep regularly using it like this?
I have a HP Pavilion 15-p289sa:
CPU: AMD A10 5745M APU (2.1 GHz, quad core, turbo to 2.9GHz)
RAM: 16gigs
GPU: Radeon R7 m260 (2gigs VRAM)
After several hours (on cooling pad), CPU temperature is fairly stable at ~75C, with a peak of ~78C, and GPU is more variable, swinging between 73C and 80C with peaks of ~83C. The fan will be on high most of the time, sometimes shifting down to mid-level before going back up to high several minutes later.
As I said, I'm not very familiar with laptop gaming having never had one that could handle it before, but my understanding is that these temperatures are pretty safe in terms of hardware damage? I'm guessing I might break the fan itself (though that can be replaced), but are these temperatures relatively safe for extended periods?
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