Loud fan on very good gaming laptop when gaming

AKAD4M

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Hello, I have the HP OMEN laptop with a NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 965 graphics card, an i7 core and 16gb ram. Usually, my laptop is silent, but as I'm writing this right now, the fan is going off for no reason. The problem is, for a gaming laptop with these specs, it should be able to handle games with HQ and stay silent, but when I start a game, a game that's not even graphics orientated like Trove, my fan starts booming and it can be heard from the end of my house - quoting my mother :| . Moreover, the middle of the laptop i.e. the area of the wrist rest or under the keyboard is often hot. I really do not know why such simple tasks have such an effect on this machine. Any help?
 
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Whoever told you a gaming laptop would game silently told you a bunch of lies. Cramming relatively high end parts into a tiny space and running them near full speed can only be cooled via lots of airflow. The way to create ariflow is lots of fan noise. Your options at this point are a separate cooling pad that might have better fans than your laptop so it's be quiter or see if perhaps the inside of your laptop is dirty making it do more work. Also lowering fps with a cap can help in a lot of cases.

Supahos

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Whoever told you a gaming laptop would game silently told you a bunch of lies. Cramming relatively high end parts into a tiny space and running them near full speed can only be cooled via lots of airflow. The way to create ariflow is lots of fan noise. Your options at this point are a separate cooling pad that might have better fans than your laptop so it's be quiter or see if perhaps the inside of your laptop is dirty making it do more work. Also lowering fps with a cap can help in a lot of cases.
 
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