Laptop overheating?

[r2d2]

it worked very well until that fateful day... oh well.

 

some plastics melt way before 80 degrees, and most laptops contain plastic parts... 80 degrees c is about 225 degrees f....

 

here is something interesting:

 

 

even if it won't cause your cpu to melt, lifespan decreases rapidly as the temp goes up.

 

Higher temps also cause the memory and comp in general to work slower, again, not catastrophic meltdown, but still bad.

[blade995]

it worked very well until that fateful day... oh well.

 

some plastics melt way before 80 degrees, and most laptops contain plastic parts... 80 degrees c is about 225 degrees f....

 

here is something interesting:

 

 

even if it won't cause your cpu to melt, lifespan decreases rapidly as the temp goes up.

 

Higher temps also cause the memory and comp in general to work slower, again, not catastrophic meltdown, but still bad.

 

 

 

The lifespan really doesn't matter.By the time the part is ready to die it will be obsolete and you will probably have something new by then. Running a computer for 2 years straight never turning it off would still only be 17520 hours.

 

 

 

Would be nice if you included the information on what each color meant on the chart. Again, the overclockers site would be overclocking a desktop, laptops are built to withstand more heat, and run at higher temps which is a fact. Which means if they are built to withstand and operate at higher heat levels means that their lifespan is greater than the desktop part at the same heat levels. Which is why they are slightly more expensive.

 

 

 

All temps from the cpu are measured on the dye, just because the cpu is running at that temp doesn't mean the whole computer is. The heatsinks in laptops are usually fully copper(sometimes aluminum for a lighter laptop) and are huge to dissipate all the heat.

 

 

 

On your computer that you said it died at 50C you may be looking at the northbridge temp. When the chipset gets into the 50s you will have problems, except if you have a p965, those things are ovens.

[m4tty]

if it gets to over 45-50 degrees Celsius (115-120 f) and stays there, you need to consider a new cooler for your cpu, ie fans. if the room is very warm it doesn't help, you may need to open the case and put a fan to it... if it is at those temps it may have already caused damage...

 

50c is cold/normal for a processor, you can reach 70-80 degrees and itll be just fine (most shutdown/slowdown the processor at 80-85), i know someone whoruns theirs highly overclocked/overvolted and at 80 degrees+ all the time, and its just fine, the cpu will probably die within less than 2 years but itll be obselete by then.

 

if it gets to over 45-50 degrees Celsius (115-120 f) and stays there, you need to consider a new cooler for your cpu, ie fans. if the room is very warm it doesn't help, you may need to open the case and put a fan to it... if it is at those temps it may have already caused damage...

 

 

 

Please stop giving inaccurate information. I know he fixed the problem but a computer running at 50c under load is not hot, even for a desktop. Laptops can run up to 80c under normal operation since the processors are built to stand more heat.

 

 

 

Just for the record, my slightly older laptops cpu started failing before it hit 50 C. I would know it was about to go real bad because the entire proccesor basicly stoped working. Some of the times I had to shut it down it may have had a functional speed of 80-100MHz.

 

Also, while a proccesor or RAM chip might withstand 80C for a short period of time, theres no garentee the rest of your mother board will be accomodating. Just rember, a computer at 50C is never going to run as fast as that same computer will at 45-50.

 

 

 

heat doesnt affect performance lol, low temps are preffered though, tbh i think you have no idea what you are talking about.

 

 

 

---- anyway back on topic ---

 

if its got fans/filters which can easily be removed, i reccomend to clean them to get rid of dust, it could be software though in which case a backup of important files, then a reinstall of windows would be good. is it hot/warm when you touch the bottom?

[r2d2]

the lines are dsifferent types of cpu's, the blue is the fancy cpu's in newer expensive comps and laptops, red is standard and green is... the not so good ones from older days and bargain comps.

[m4tty]

the lines are dsifferent types of cpu's, the blue is the fancy cpu's in newer expensive comps and laptops, red is standard and green is... the not so good ones from older days and bargain comps.

 

that graph is bs tbh.

[r2d2]

not sure of the specifics are 100% accurate, but the theory is.