Hello everyone,
so I'm having some issues with my laptop. A few months ago, it started overheating while playing games especially the more demanding ones (Skyrim, DMC, Assassins creed...).
What happens is that it overheats, the game starts running slowly, then the laptop shuts down if I keep playing. I've had my laptop since 2012 and all those games were working fine before. This happens more when the weather is hot, like if I turn on my air conditioner, it works a little bit better. I'm going to get it fixed, but I need help figuring out what the problem is first.
Here are my specs:
Model: Dell XPS L502X
Processor:Intel Core i7-2670QM CPU @2.20GHZ
RAM:8.00 GB
Graphics card:NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
One more thing I used HWMonitor to measure the Temps and it's like 80-90C while playing and 70-80C while idle. Also the fan becomes noisy while playing (I bought a cooling pad which did nothing).
I think I should also mention that ever since I bought the laptop, I had the NIVIDIA card problem, where when it runs any game, the laptop shuts down after 5 minutes. We were told back then to change to the Integrated graphics, which now I know shouldn't be the solution.
Anyway, I hope someone can tell me what the problem is exactly.
Thanks in advance.
so I'm having some issues with my laptop. A few months ago, it started overheating while playing games especially the more demanding ones (Skyrim, DMC, Assassins creed...).
What happens is that it overheats, the game starts running slowly, then the laptop shuts down if I keep playing. I've had my laptop since 2012 and all those games were working fine before. This happens more when the weather is hot, like if I turn on my air conditioner, it works a little bit better. I'm going to get it fixed, but I need help figuring out what the problem is first.
Here are my specs:
Model: Dell XPS L502X
Processor:Intel Core i7-2670QM CPU @2.20GHZ
RAM:8.00 GB
Graphics card:NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M
One more thing I used HWMonitor to measure the Temps and it's like 80-90C while playing and 70-80C while idle. Also the fan becomes noisy while playing (I bought a cooling pad which did nothing).
I think I should also mention that ever since I bought the laptop, I had the NIVIDIA card problem, where when it runs any game, the laptop shuts down after 5 minutes. We were told back then to change to the Integrated graphics, which now I know shouldn't be the solution.
Anyway, I hope someone can tell me what the problem is exactly.
Thanks in advance.
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