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AndyBuk

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I have recently bought a brand new ASUS R510J with a very solid specs for gaming; i7-4710HQ @2.50GHz, 8GB and Geforce GTX 850M 2GB. My expectations with this laptop were to try out games that came out from the last 4 years, and thus do not have high requirements... comparing to what i've got. The problem is that my lap overheats like crazy when i play Wolfenstein or Far Cry 3 for instance; they run smooth on the highest settings but my components ( proc., motherboard and graphic card) seem not to like it, despite outranking the recommended requirements. I get about 80 and above degrees celcius pretty much all the time. Can anyone give me some guidance on how to fix this, except proposing the idea of a cooling pad, lowering setting, thinking of having a desktop or please god don't mention cleaning the fan ( it's a brand new purchase).
 
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harryfishrules
Hey AndyBuk. Contact Asus support about this and if needed, request an RMA. They should know if the laptop is faulty or if this is how it was designed to run as for example, Apple MacBooks are designed to thermal throttle in order to keep them quiet by avoiding using its cooling fans. Sadly, in a tiny case such as a laptop's the cooling is often inefficient and a cooling pad would help the issue (even though you don't want one)!
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Sapphire Thunder

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Powerful parts use a lot power and so generate a lot heat.

There is nothing you can do except using cooling pad and lowering settings.

You chose to get high spec laptop with older, less power efficient Kepler gpu. When there are choices with newer Maxwell gpus: GTX 950M, 960M and 970M.
 
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harryfishrules

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Hey AndyBuk. Contact Asus support about this and if needed, request an RMA. They should know if the laptop is faulty or if this is how it was designed to run as for example, Apple MacBooks are designed to thermal throttle in order to keep them quiet by avoiding using its cooling fans. Sadly, in a tiny case such as a laptop's the cooling is often inefficient and a cooling pad would help the issue (even though you don't want one)!
 
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velo3100

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80 degrees is quite normal for a laptop with your specs while gaming. Just make sure that it doesn't reach above 90 as this may start to damage parts of your laptop.

Also I don't know if the R series of asus is designed for gaming or if it is supposed to be a mid end multimedia laptop as the g series is specifically made for this.
 
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