Is heat causing stutter in-game?

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So my Alienware 17R4 arrived yesterday and have noticed that after gaming for a short while when my laptop is getting very hot my game will stutter noticeably. Is it the heat that's causing this. I chcked my temps after about 2 hours of gameplay and my CPU was at 88C and my GPU at 86C. Feeling the vents at the back, they were red hot
 
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Laptops aren't the best for gaming and one of the reasons why is that they tend to run very hot, since they don't have as much space to properly manage their heat. So the heat isn't unusual. It's quite possible that this heat is causing the performance drops. Your system might be scaling itself down when it's getting too hot, in order to prevent damage from overheating.

If you're serious about wanting to play demanding games on a laptop, it's not an unnecessary luxury to get yourself one of those laptop cooling pads, which you can place under your laptop to blow cool air into the system, helping with temperature management a bit by increasing airflow. Barring that, simply making sure the laptop's vents aren't blocked by anything will...
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Laptops aren't the best for gaming and one of the reasons why is that they tend to run very hot, since they don't have as much space to properly manage their heat. So the heat isn't unusual. It's quite possible that this heat is causing the performance drops. Your system might be scaling itself down when it's getting too hot, in order to prevent damage from overheating.

If you're serious about wanting to play demanding games on a laptop, it's not an unnecessary luxury to get yourself one of those laptop cooling pads, which you can place under your laptop to blow cool air into the system, helping with temperature management a bit by increasing airflow. Barring that, simply making sure the laptop's vents aren't blocked by anything will help a little as well. For example, if the laptop is blowing air out of the bottom, putting it on a flat surface like a table might be restricting the airflow, so placing something underneath it to keep the vents clear of any surface could help.
 
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