Can I play something?

[Timon18]

Hi all,

I recently buy a laptop so I could go to work and do some stuff... photoshop, youtube videos, and learn programming.

And I thought, why not play some strategy games, so I buy Civ VI.... Bad idea... My processor reached at high volume 94ºC and my graphic card a marvelous 91ºC.

I know next time I can fry something which I don't want.

My laptop is a Acer Aspire E15 E5-523G

The specs are: AMD A9-9410, 8GB DDR4, Radeon R5 M430 2GB and HDD 1TB.

 

My questions are:

What is the games (like Civ) I probably will play without have more heat that my oven, and what is the max temperature that my laptop should go in safety.

 

Thanks in advance

Keep cool 

[stealth80]

maybe try an older version of CIV ? 

[Colexd]

Play older and lighter games

[Timon18]

5 minutes ago, stealth80 said:

maybe try an older version of CIV ? 

2 minutes ago, Colexd said:

Play older and lighter games

Probably, but I don't wanted to buy more games and then doesn't work... 

Do you think Civ V would work? Without make starry eggs....

 

[Colexd]

1 minute ago, Timon18 said:

Probably, but I don't wanted to buy more games and then doesn't work... 

Do you think Civ V would work? Without make starry eggs....

 

You could always surf the web for the games that you can actually run. Type in r5 m430 and hit enter

[TheGlenlivet]

3 minutes ago, Timon18 said:

Probably, but I don't wanted to buy more games and then doesn't work... 

Do you think Civ V would work? Without make starry eggs....

 

have you adjusted the settings?  If you bump them down all the way and see what the temps are, then work your way up till temps are acceptable?

[Timon18]

Just now, TheGlenlivet said:

have you adjusted the settings?  If you bump them down all the way and see what the temps are, then work your way up till temps are acceptable?

Yes I was in minimum. I checked everything in the configuration. All minimum.

[TheGlenlivet]

5 minutes ago, Timon18 said:

Yes I was in minimum. I checked everything in the configuration. All minimum.

OK.  Go into your power management advanced settings and change the maximum power state for the processor to 99% instead of 100%.  This sounds weird, but it GREATLY reduces temps while SLIGHTLY reducing performance.  Very worth it on a laptop.

[Timon18]

14 hours ago, TheGlenlivet said:

OK.  Go into your power management advanced settings and change the maximum power state for the processor to 99% instead of 100%.  This sounds weird, but it GREATLY reduces temps while SLIGHTLY reducing performance.  Very worth it on a laptop.

Wow, my GPU stay in 51ºC and the processor in 54ºC! That's awesome. Thanks.

By the way is this processor better that a Intel core i3? I actually bought it thinking it was better....

[MightyBooty :^)]

4 hours ago, Timon18 said:

Wow, my GPU stay in 51ºC and the processor in 54ºC! That's awesome. Thanks.

By the way is this processor better that a Intel core i3? I actually bought it thinking it was better....

Sadly not, it's an old architecture but on the newer AM4 platform. While it is the best dual core of the lineup, it's still based on the excavator core which is derived from the good old bulldozer lineup. It's around a phenom 2 x3 in performance, which isn't bad, but it's not the best. You're going to have trouble playing games made later than 2011ish with the gpu and cpu that is supplied to you in that laptop. Next time you want to make a purchase you need to make sure the specs are correct for the type of workloads you're going to want to accomplish with your machine. You can find laptops with double the performance of that one in the 400-600 dollar price range so doing research is only to your benefit as companies like to push less than stellar machines at higher prices knowing some of the laptop market segment is going to be misinformed.

[Timon18]

1 hour ago, MightyBooty :^) said:

Sadly not, it's an old architecture but on the newer AM4 platform. While it is the best dual core of the lineup, it's still based on the excavator core which is derived from the good old bulldozer lineup. It's around a phenom 2 x3 in performance, which isn't bad, but it's not the best. You're going to have trouble playing games made later than 2011ish with the gpu and cpu that is supplied to you in that laptop. Next time you want to make a purchase you need to make sure the specs are correct for the type of workloads you're going to want to accomplish with your machine. You can find laptops with double the performance of that one in the 400-600 dollar price range so doing research is only to your benefit as companies like to push less than stellar machines at higher prices knowing some of the laptop market segment is going to be misinformed.

Thanks for the info.

Well for now I have to deal with this.

Again thank you very much for all who reply my post.