I have a nice Dell Inspiron 5150, with a P4 3.06GHz processor. I find that as soon as I do something a little CPU intensive, the fan gets annoyingly loud. And if I start playing some game (say a nesticle rom), it gets even louder, and performance starts to drop slightly... Like keyboard slightly misbehaving, and more glitching... generally seems slower.
Anyway, the other day, I was playing Quake 3, and about 15 minutes into the game, I guess my laptop overheated. It just shut down completely. It was really hot, like I could feel it through the table and everything. After it cooled down, it worked fine and all, but now I'm worried about playing games cause it might overheat like that again.
So the question:
- Does the dell inspiron 5150 just have a crappy cooling system that doesn't properly do its job when running a faster processor, or is there some fault in my system somewhere? I didn't mod it, and one would assume the dell people know what they're doing, to some extent.
- Is there a good/common/cheap way to cool laptops without having to change peripherals?
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Anyway, the other day, I was playing Quake 3, and about 15 minutes into the game, I guess my laptop overheated. It just shut down completely. It was really hot, like I could feel it through the table and everything. After it cooled down, it worked fine and all, but now I'm worried about playing games cause it might overheat like that again.
So the question:
- Does the dell inspiron 5150 just have a crappy cooling system that doesn't properly do its job when running a faster processor, or is there some fault in my system somewhere? I didn't mod it, and one would assume the dell people know what they're doing, to some extent.
- Is there a good/common/cheap way to cool laptops without having to change peripherals?
replicon
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