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Overheating Intel ATOM tablet

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Hello LTT community! Once again I am asking for your support. Things are like this, I have this old Intel atom tablet that I mainly use for media consumption (YouTube) and a bit of web browsing.

Being an Intel atom I would aspect it to overheard a bit more than normal but not as much as untouchable levels. If the back portion of it is covered, it overheats like hell... It starts dropping frames all over the place and even the UI lags.

Yes, it's true that the battery is old and the CPU is 32nm but when brand new it barely did anything like this, I was even gaming on it...

The device in cause it's an Asus Fonepad 7 Fe170CG (2014)

Does anyone have any ideas what is happening?

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Try to avoid covering the back or if it has some exhaust on it. 

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             : Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

MOBO            : MSI B350m Bazooka

MEMORY          : Team Group Elite TUF DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
STORAGE         : Seagate Baracudda 1TB and Kingston SSD
PSU             : Thermaltake Lite power 550W (Gonna change soon as i dont trust this)
CASE            : Rakk Anyag Frost
CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
KEYBOARD        : Rakk Lam Ang

HEADSET         : Plantronics RIG 500HD

Kingston Hyper X Stinger

 

and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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On 3/2/2020 at 11:09 AM, MartinKweh said:

Try to avoid covering the back or if it has some exhaust on it. 

There is no exhaust.... And even with the back uncovered it gets pretty hot. More than normal

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