Hey, I'm experiencing worrying temperature problems with my laptop, it's only about two years old from when I bought it, and there has been a few things that have changed with its behaviour that I am unsure of
Firstly is obviously the heating, the laptops temps increase very, very rapidly, and for what I would think is unreasonable circumstances to cause such heat.
For example, RealTemp shows that the cpu idles at about 50-55 celsius, however when playing a game like Aion (which this setup is rated to be able to run it set to high~ settings) the laptop will shut off within 30 minutes or so, giving a reboot warning that the system overheated (reporting 90+ celsius) even when the game is set to run on the lowest settings possible for everything.
Standard use heats it to about 65~ which I think is unreasonable (when I say standard use I mean things like running music off iTunes while browsing 2-3 tabs on Chrome)
If I'm doing anything with my usb external hdd then periods of copying files of about 3gb+ in size will cause the cpu to reach about 70~
Also I'm not sure if it's related, but I've noticed when Aion is starting to make the laptop feel quite warm (obviously now I quit the game and give it a rest) I have alt+tabbed to check the temperature and have noticed the cpu is only running at 1333Mhz which is half of it's rated speed
Any suggestions would be much appreciated, thanks.
Laptop Specs here:
Compaq Presario CQ62
Intel Core i3 M350 @ 2.27Ghz
ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4300/4500 series (That's how every program identifies it, I can't find the actual model anywhere)
HDD is 320GB which I try to keep at least 50GB free.
Edit: Forgot, it's also running 4GB ram
Firstly is obviously the heating, the laptops temps increase very, very rapidly, and for what I would think is unreasonable circumstances to cause such heat.
For example, RealTemp shows that the cpu idles at about 50-55 celsius, however when playing a game like Aion (which this setup is rated to be able to run it set to high~ settings) the laptop will shut off within 30 minutes or so, giving a reboot warning that the system overheated (reporting 90+ celsius) even when the game is set to run on the lowest settings possible for everything.
Standard use heats it to about 65~ which I think is unreasonable (when I say standard use I mean things like running music off iTunes while browsing 2-3 tabs on Chrome)
If I'm doing anything with my usb external hdd then periods of copying files of about 3gb+ in size will cause the cpu to reach about 70~
Also I'm not sure if it's related, but I've noticed when Aion is starting to make the laptop feel quite warm (obviously now I quit the game and give it a rest) I have alt+tabbed to check the temperature and have noticed the cpu is only running at 1333Mhz which is half of it's rated speed
Any suggestions would be much appreciated, thanks.
Laptop Specs here:
Compaq Presario CQ62
Intel Core i3 M350 @ 2.27Ghz
ATI Radeon Mobility HD 4300/4500 series (That's how every program identifies it, I can't find the actual model anywhere)
HDD is 320GB which I try to keep at least 50GB free.
Edit: Forgot, it's also running 4GB ram