So I recently purchased a new laptop, and have noticed that when I'm not doing anything very intensive, the core temp fluctuates between 60 and 65 degrees Celsius.
I can drop this down to about 40-55 Celsius by positioning my desk fan on the laptop...but I'm worried about my core temperature being too high and overheating.
My questions are, what is the ideal core temperature for my laptop, and what can I do to keep it low? My cpu is a Intel Celeron 1.6 ghz is that helps.
Many thanks in advance esteemed techo-geeks! Your wisdom keeps the world running :biggrin:
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Those temps are okay. As CPUs go, 90c is caution, 100c is overheating and 105c or above is probably damaging the CPU. With a laptop the two best things to do are use it only while it's sitting on a hard surface and, get a cooling pad for it.
If you run graphics intensive programs (usually games) then you need to be doubly careful as the GPU can also overheat easily.
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"Cooling pads"?
Hmm, guess my laptop has always operated at quite a cool temperature, so i haven't had to look into cooling methods/devices.:redface:
I recommend running your laptop as cool as possible, as it extends a computers lifespan at least a little.
I heard somewhere that computers slowly lose processing power over their lifespans, the hotter they run, the faster the computer loses MHz. Anyone know if that's true?
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Not as far as I know, unless you repeatedly run them at temps high enough to damage them, then of course it will cause the components to degrade over time, and eventually fail entirely. Overheating it onec or twice is not going to do any noticeable damage.
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be sure that when you do put your fan on your laptop its not on the side the fan vents are on. if it is then you would be blowing the hot are the fans are trying to push out back into the laptop.
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