Laptop overheating while gaming

moneshot

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Mar 21, 2016
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My laptop recently started overheating while playing games. It never used to, I used to be able to play games for hours on end but now I cant even play some games for 10 minutes without my laptop getting really hot and shutting off. Any solutions?

My laptop is an Acer Aspire R14

i7 4510U
GT 820m
12 gb RAM
Windows 10
 
Solution
Open the laptop, clean it out, you may also need to remove the heatsink, clean it and the CPU off and install it with new thermal paste. Make sure fan is running well.