How much of an improvement will I see?

So my Thinkpad is starting to get old on me (the GPU is getting to ~90 degrees C when playing games), so I am going to build a new desktop computer to replace it for gaming. I bought a ATI 6850 graphics card. Since the parts won't be here yet for another week, I've got to ask here. How much of an improvement do you think I will see compared to my laptop in my signature? Will it be noticeable? (noticeable means at least twice the performance)

Also, does anyone know why my laptop is getting so hot? Could dust make such a big difference? I don't have any compressed air, would it be safe (or effective) to use a vacuum to suck the dust out?

 

Desktop 6850 is MANY times more powerful than a mobile 3650, the difference is night and day, to put it lightly.

If you haven't cleaned the inside of your laptop, you can almost be sure that it's the dust that clogged your air vents, thus leading to very high temp of CPU/GPU. It's not advised to use vacuum cleaner, the static electric will likely damage some of the components and it's definitely not safe.

The correct way to clean is to open up the back of your laptop and blow out the dust with a can of compressed air, if you are out of compressed air, you can try to try to blow out the dust using your mouth, be wary that excessive practice of this art will make your head dizzy But in all seriousness, get compressed air can, it's MUCH more effective and will get the job done nicely, and on top of that, it's pretty cheap.

Hope this helps.

 

the difference is huge between those 2 graphics cards.

your laptop is probably very dusty and vacuuming it would be just fine. i dont know where the poster above got the idea vacuuming airducts will create static eletricity that kills your computer (i guess he lost 2 much oxygen blowing dust with his mouth).

 

Hmm... So is it safe to use a vacuum cleaner?

Glad to hear that it would be a huge improvement, though frankly, I was pretty content with the performance of my laptop.

 

On my Toshibas manual they recomend to vacum clean the vents

 

Its better to use compressed air instead.

 

if you aren't opening the back, use a vacuum cleaner, if you are, use compressed air and be careful of getting any liquid from the can in your system.

 

theres honestly no reason to use compressed air unless you want to very thoroughly clean it (you would have to open it up)