Laptop How To Keep Cool

[Calling John]

i got 2 laptops free off a lady on facebook marketplace she said both where good for parts but they both work fine and in good condition

 

specs are

hp i3 330m gt 230m 4gb ram 320gb hdd
hp i7 3610qm gt630m 4gb ram 640gb hdd looks like it was hardly ever used

now the laptops run 100% fine but i wanted to use the i7 to play some older games

i just wanted to know if there is a way to keep the laptop a little cooler and is there anything i can have on screen to show the gpu and cpu temps when gaming to make sure the laptop is not getting too hot and what temp should i stay under because i don't want to fry/cook the cpu or gpu

[Pickles von Brine]

Those CPUs are going to get hot. Laptops in general run hot. It is not uncommon to see CPUs hit to 80s and 90s. 

best thing to do is make sure the heat sinks are free of debris and reapply new thermal paste. That would require taking apart the systems. 

[Whiro]

@Calling John

3 hours ago, Lord Xeb said:

Those CPUs are going to get hot. Laptops in general run hot. It is not uncommon to see CPUs hit to 80s and 90s. 

best thing to do is make sure the heat sinks are free of debris and reapply new thermal paste. That would require taking apart the systems. 

Yes this is true, they are running hot, specially that you planning to put much hotter cpu which wasn’t intended to be there so cooler isn’t designed to keep it cool. You can try putting liquid metal instead of thermal paste, I know it works you just need to be careful with it.

Also make sure your bios will even support i7 cpu, not all of them will.

[Calling John]

14 minutes ago, Whiro said:

@Calling John

Yes this is true, they are running hot, specially that you planning to put much hotter cpu which wasn’t intended to be there so cooler isn’t designed to keep it cool. You can try putting liquid metal instead of thermal paste, I know it works you just need to be careful with it.

Also make sure your bios will even support i7 cpu, not all of them will.

i said i was given 2 laptops with these specs im not upgrading the cpu the i7 model is just the one i want to use to play older games on

[Whiro]

5 minutes ago, Calling John said:

i said i was given 2 laptops with these specs im not upgrading the cpu the i7 model is just the one i want to use to play older games on

Ahh sorry I’ve miss read that. 
But still what I said before is correct ( most parts) if you use liquid metal it’ll definitely drop the temps