Blade Pro Overheating...

[Inventrious]

So I bought a Razer Blade Pro last year (2014 model), and lately I've been noticing it's starting to heat up a lot. When you push down a key sometimes you'll feel the heat on the frame around the keys. Around the power button it's way to hot to touch, and the same on the bottom. 

 

It's overheating well I'm playing a CS:GO, have Spotify, Steam, Skype, and Chrome open with a few tabs if that helps any. 

 

So for one, what temperature should I be expecting from my Blade Pro? It's a laptop so I'd expect to be able to use it on my lap, but it's way too hot for that... And what temperature monitoring programs would you suggest? 

[PlayStation 2]

Replace the paste, if you're in a haste.

[Enderman]

use compressed air to blow out all of the vents and heatsinks

if its still overheating you will want to open it up and replace the thermal paste on the GPU and CPU

[Senzelian]

So I bought a Razer Blade Pro last year (2014 model), and lately I've been noticing it's starting to heat up a lot. When you push down a key sometimes you'll feel the heat on the frame around the keys. Around the power button it's way to hot to touch, and the same on the bottom. 

 

It's overheating well I'm playing a CS:GO, have Spotify, Steam, Skype, and Chrome open with a few tabs if that helps any. 

 

So for one, what temperature should I be expecting from my Blade Pro? It's a laptop so I'd expect to be able to use it on my lap, but it's way too hot for that... And what temperature monitoring programs would you suggest? 

Laptops, especially gaming laptops, are really not meant to sit on your lap.

They have rubber feet that prevent them from touching the ground directly, so they get enough air. Almost all notebooks and laptops have bottom intakes.

I would recommend to open it up and have a look inside. There might be just a lot of dust inside.

[SirDucksallot]

Well,maybe you should invest in a good cooler pad.Or you could take it apart and clean it as the people above have metioned.

[Inventrious]

Well,maybe you should invest in a good cooler pad.Or you could take it apart and clean it as the people above have metioned.

It's cleaned and I do own a cooling pad, I just didn't expect to have to use one. I bought the Blade because it was thin and an easily portable gaming computer, if I knew it would've required a cooler all the time I would have gone with a normal PC.

[SirDucksallot]

It's cleaned and I do own a cooling pad, I just didn't expect to have to use one. I bought the Blade because it was thin and an easily portable gaming computer, if I knew it would've required a cooler all the time I would have gone with a normal PC.

Welp,its at the end of the day its a laptop with the only active cooler ebeing on the cpu,if you exclude the chassis fans(which are all small).Try playing on a flat surface,particurarly wood or marble or smething like that and not carpet so you allow the Blade to breathe.

[Guest Generallee]

Laptops, especially gaming laptops, are really not meant to sit on your lap.

 

Well that's unfortunate

 

Maybe it should have been called a ...... desktop

[Senzelian]

Well that's unfortunate

 

Maybe it should have been called a ...... desktop

The difference is, that a laptop fits on your lap. A desktop? Not really. I mean, it kinda does, but it isn't useable at all.

But it is really not recommended to use a laptop on your lap. That obviously also depends on the kind of laptop. A passive cooled or lower end notebook/laptop is totally fine to use on your lap (if you hold it corrctly), but I would never do that with a 17'' monster of a gaming laptop that needs every little bit of air it can get.