So my laptop HP Pavilion dv6 with i7-23xx and Radeon 6770m has a tendency to overheat when worked too hard e.g. playing TF2. It usually hovers a bit over 80°C and very rarely goes up to 93-94°C.
Naturally, if you have any ingenious ways of solving my problem for me, I welcome it.
I get around 200 fps while playing 6s. Not so much in pubs, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. I was thinking that if I limited the amount of effort my computer was allowed to put into playing TF2, I could potentially reduce the overheating problem at the cost of a little bit of frame rate. Lots of people get along fine with something like 120 fps.
Problem is, I don't know how to go about doing this, nor whether it will help me at any rate. For this, I appeal to you. Please help?
Thanks
So my laptop HP Pavilion dv6 with i7-23xx and Radeon 6770m has a tendency to overheat when worked too hard e.g. playing TF2. It usually hovers a bit over 80°C and very rarely goes up to 93-94°C.
Naturally, if you have any ingenious ways of solving my problem for me, I welcome it.
I get around 200 fps while playing 6s. Not so much in pubs, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make. I was thinking that if I limited the amount of effort my computer was allowed to put into playing TF2, I could potentially reduce the overheating problem at the cost of a little bit of frame rate. Lots of people get along fine with something like 120 fps.
Problem is, I don't know how to go about doing this, nor whether it will help me at any rate. For this, I appeal to you. Please help?
Thanks
Make sure there's no dust in the fans. Blow them out!
Elevate the back of the laptop to free up the airways more (normally the built in standoffs only give a teensy bit of breathing room).
Use one of those stupid cooling pads with large fans on them to increase the airflow under the system.
Open up the system and replace the stock thermal paste with something better!
Set an FPS_MAX so you're not wasting CPU cycles when you don't need to (won't help if your framerate drops below the FPS_MAX)
Make sure there's no dust in the fans. Blow them out!
Elevate the back of the laptop to free up the airways more (normally the built in standoffs only give a teensy bit of breathing room).
Use one of those stupid cooling pads with large fans on them to increase the airflow under the system.
Open up the system and replace the stock thermal paste with something better!
Set an FPS_MAX so you're not wasting CPU cycles when you don't need to (won't help if your framerate drops below the FPS_MAX)
I don't trust myself to open up my laptop and fix things so I should probably take it to someone for some maintenance for the fan dust and pasting issues.
I do have a shitty cooling pad and elevate my laptop.
How do you set an fps max?
I don't trust myself to open up my laptop and fix things so I should probably take it to someone for some maintenance for the fan dust and pasting issues.
I do have a shitty cooling pad and elevate my laptop.
How do you set an fps max?
fps_max (insert fps you want here)
fps_max (insert fps you want here)
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Anyone know where you go to get a repaste that doesn't involve Best Buy employees?
Might be your power options. Mine was on high performance, made my computer overheat, i set it to balanced and it's working fine now. Worth a shot.
Might be your power options. Mine was on high performance, made my computer overheat, i set it to balanced and it's working fine now. Worth a shot.
I played around with my power options before, but if you have any particular options of note that you think will help with overheating I'd be happy to try them.
Unfortunately mine's on HP recommended with my own customizations. I notice there's a Gaming Mode; is there any merit to that?
I played around with my power options before, but if you have any particular options of note that you think will help with overheating I'd be happy to try them.
Unfortunately mine's on HP recommended with my own customizations. I notice there's a Gaming Mode; is there any merit to that?
I had the same issue on my Pavilion laptop to the point where it'd force shutdown after reaching insanely high temperatures...turns out there was a lot of accumulated dust in there. All it took was a few blasts of compressed air in the vents on the bottom/side and temperatures went down to normal. Didn't even have to open anything up. Highly recommend trying this first before anything else.
I had the same issue on my Pavilion laptop to the point where it'd force shutdown after reaching insanely high temperatures...turns out there was a lot of accumulated dust in there. All it took was a few blasts of compressed air in the vents on the bottom/side and temperatures went down to normal. Didn't even have to open anything up. Highly recommend trying this first before anything else.
I just sprayed some pathetic blasts of air through the side vents. Hope it helps.
I mean it's not like my computer's melting. I just figure it's better to be lower than not.
I just sprayed some pathetic blasts of air through the side vents. Hope it helps.
I mean it's not like my computer's melting. I just figure it's better to be lower than not.
clean your laptop out, and you can also try capping your framerate to ease the burden, idk something like 150 should be fine.
clean your laptop out, and you can also try capping your framerate to ease the burden, idk something like 150 should be fine.
SnowyI played around with my power options before, but if you have any particular options of note that you think will help with overheating I'd be happy to try them.
Unfortunately mine's on HP recommended with my own customizations. I notice there's a Gaming Mode; is there any merit to that?
It's worth a shot, other than that if you cap your frame rate at around the lowest that it drops to it should help, and you can get used to it. When i had issues with my computer my frames would drop from like 130 to 60-75 and it would make my mouse feel like it was freezing up. I just capped it to 65 and it ran smooth enough to play.
[quote=Snowy]I played around with my power options before, but if you have any particular options of note that you think will help with overheating I'd be happy to try them.
Unfortunately mine's on HP recommended with my own customizations. I notice there's a Gaming Mode; is there any merit to that?[/quote]
It's worth a shot, other than that if you cap your frame rate at around the lowest that it drops to it should help, and you can get used to it. When i had issues with my computer my frames would drop from like 130 to 60-75 and it would make my mouse feel like it was freezing up. I just capped it to 65 and it ran smooth enough to play.
Turns out the real problem was that I had my gpu settings on "Fixed" instead of "Dynamic" in that F10 system configurations thing you go in when you first start your computer. It now runs TF2 at sub-60 degrees, and I feel incredibly dumb.
Thanks for all the help though. I'm sure it makes incremental differences, even if it's not as large as the one I just described.
Turns out the real problem was that I had my gpu settings on "Fixed" instead of "Dynamic" in that F10 system configurations thing you go in when you first start your computer. It now runs TF2 at sub-60 degrees, and I feel incredibly dumb.
Thanks for all the help though. I'm sure it makes incremental differences, even if it's not as large as the one I just described.