Just making sure, you do realize your CMOS is missing?

Yes. It was a motherboard swap job

Just making sure.

Need some scale. Fan itself doesn't look too much bigger than the ones on the laptops I work on. Although the heatsink (which I assume is under the motherboard as pictured) is bigger?

This is a 15in laptop motherboard.

Ram stick should be a good enough scale

Just hard for me to contextualize. I will say the whole thing looks extremely different from the Dell and Lenovo's I regularly work on.

@Trik'Stari That little plate IS the heatsink.

........ WHAT?

That's..... frigging tiny. I thought it was the backplate or something. I.....I've worked on 5 generation old Dell's that had larger heatsinks.

Wait.... Is this a chromebook? Does ASUS even make those?

(I am a little drunk, and sick lol)

This is a 15in windows 8/10 laptop. Sports an <8w intel celery.

Ooooh. So some decent thermal paste and it's fine.

I've seen Dell 6000 series that get hot enough during normal operation to almost be too hot to touch.

Then again, I've seen malfunctioning ones that were still operational, that would literally burn your hand. That was a weird one.

Change out the fan, still overheating.

Change out the CPU, still overheating.

Change out the motherboard, STILL OVERHEATING?!

Change out the CPU again, Still overheating.

Change out the motherboard again, keep the new CPU, finally stops overheating.

Turns out the original CPU was damaging the motherboards in a way that caused them to overheat even if you put a new CPU in it. At least, that was the best answer we could come up with.

Oh look ASUS is copying apple.

Really though that's not the CPU is it? A freaking PCH gets more heatsink than that. What's on the other side of the motherboard? Looks like the fan is blowing air past something down below.

@Windows7ge Nope, thats it. That is the CPU and heatsink

These basic laptop CPUs are so efficient that they need very little effort for a cooler.

HP actually gets away with no fan on theirs, just a piece of metal in the shape of the fan bolted to the CPU

Jeez, so that's what the foam tape is about. Once the top is put on it acts as an air channel. I take it you can't do anything very CPU intensive before it hits 100% load.

@Windows7ge

Quite the opposite. Booting up windows, it doesn't even get warm to the touch. And it does this fanless.

I just mean in terms of productivity performance. Not how much heat it actually generates. If it doesn't get very warm if at all I'd take it that it's only designed for light duty use. Don't expect to be doing any serious rendering, gaming, benchmarking, etc because the CPU would be a real bottleneck.

Oh definitely not. Its a basic web browsing machine