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Hey guys, my laptop overheats far to easily, and i was wondering if anyone has any ideas for a custom laptop cooling system. or if cooling pads with fans preinstalled are a viable option.


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Motherboard  whatever toshiba put in the thing

RAM 8GB 1600mhz 

GPU  Nvidia Geforce GT 740M  

Storage 750Gb 5400rpm   

Cooling  Crappy laptop fan 

Operating System  windows 8 64 bit

 


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Depends on the laptop but 99% of the time a cooling pad will serve you pretty well. Most only need a spare USB port for powering the fans but just have a look around on Amazon or similar for a good one.

 

It could just be dust clogging up the heatsinks on your laptop, if you're feeling up to it, look into taking it apart and giving it a good clean through (Especially if it's an older laptop and has been used quite a bit)

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The only thing you can do without being insane is replacing the thermal paste,

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Hey guys, my laptop overheats far to easily, and i was wondering if anyone has any ideas for a custom laptop cooling system. or if cooling pads with fans preinstalled are a viable option.

 

Not sure how you plan that but there aren't really any options like that using liquid cooling that's feasible, if it's a desk laptop that you leave on or use like a desktop I would suggest to remove the bottom cover for better airflow and place it on a cooling mat as long as you don't mind the look.

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Just clean it out with compressed air and replace the thermal paste.

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Just clean it out with compressed air and replace the thermal paste.

already did, got a 2 degree difference


CPU Intel I7-4700MQ @2.4 ghz, turbos to 3.4 

Motherboard  whatever toshiba put in the thing

RAM 8GB 1600mhz 

GPU  Nvidia Geforce GT 740M  

Storage 750Gb 5400rpm   

Cooling  Crappy laptop fan 

Operating System  windows 8 64 bit

 


01101001 01100110 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01101000 01100001 01100100 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01000111 01101111 01101111 01100111 01101100 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 00100000 01100100 01101111 01101110 00100111 01110100 00100000 01100010 01101100 01100001 01101101 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101

 

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