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    Please help me with the TEMP and Gaming on it

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by NexonRTG, Jun 30, 2012.

  1. NexonRTG

    NexonRTG Newbie

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    I have found this on my laptop's manual

    Environment
    • Temperature:
    • Operating: 5 °C to 35 °C
    • Non-operating: -20 °C to 65 °C

    • Humidity (non-condensing):
    • Operating: 20% to 80%
    • Non-operating: 20% to 80%


    Now, i play Counter Strike Source, i get 60-130fps in the game ... the laptop starts heating as you know, it gets to 60-62°C max, is it safe to keep playing ?
     
  2. nissangtr786

    nissangtr786 Notebook Deity

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    I think below 80 degrees is safe. 80-90 ok, 90+ and t is dangerous. 100+ should hut down automatically.

    60-62 is very low temps for gaming so nothing wrong there. Also what laptop do you have?
     
  3. MrDJ

    MrDJ Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    would help if you told us what laptop you have and its spec.
    high end gaming laptops those temps would be cool.
     
  4. NexonRTG

    NexonRTG Newbie

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    Actually i have a low specs laptop

    Acer 5738z :D

    Dual core T4300 2.10Ghz (2cores P478 Socket)
    3GB RAM DDR2
    INTEL GMA 4500M Onboard (cheap i know but it playback HD Videos very well)
    ****

    i know it's not a high end gaming laptop, but it runs css well but i'm not sure about that TEMP .... anyways i will get a Desktop later
     
  5. nissangtr786

    nissangtr786 Notebook Deity

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    lol, thats not even close to a basic dedicated graphics card gaming wise. Only old games will run on this. Temps are safe but integrated graphics tend to struggle after a while with gaming as they are not designed for it.

    Yours is similar gaming performance to intel netbooks.
     
  6. amirfoox

    amirfoox Notebook Evangelist

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    No need to poke fun at him, the guy merely asked a question. Not everyone has to be a gamer.

    NexonRTG, these are quite low temps for a laptop. You're just fine, don't worry.
     
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    alexUW Notebook Virtuoso

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    I believe those parameters define the ambient conditions you can operate the laptop under.

    For example: Don't use the laptop outside when it is 35 Celsius; use it indoors where it is 20 Celsius.

    When you play your games, those are conditions within the laptop, which others have pointed out are ok. Obviously, playing in a "hot" room will raise temperatures in your laptop higher than those of a laptop playing a game in a "cold" room.
     
  8. NexonRTG

    NexonRTG Newbie

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    Thanks for being nice, but I am a gamer thank you, i Clutch the poop outta ESEA members with my poopy graphics laptop ;) .... Just wait till i get a Desktop to run full graphics and frames and you'll see some of my frags
     
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    Your manual is no doubt referring to ambient (room/storage) temps and not hardware temps. The fact that it also mentions humidity is pretty much a dead giveaway of this. As for core temps, keep them under high 80s/90s and you are fine.

    Sent from my Tricorder using Tapatalk
     
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    More and more gamers are going laptop now. No real point for desktops these days. Anyway you can get desktop with integrated graphics that will get crap performance. Put it into perspective my 9600m gt can play most games at 60fps at 1280x800 on high and mine came out 4 years and is only a low 23w card. Mine was a basic-mid range card 4 years ago.

    You can get laptops more powerful then 90% of the desktop market. Desktop are only ahead on extreme processors and extreme gpu setups. Also laptops you get screen and everything integrated and portable great battery life and weighs hardly anything and is superthin.

    That gt 640m laptop is very powerful and should run virtually everything at 60fps at 720p res maxed out except aa.
     
  13. NexonRTG

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    Well, it seem like a nice laptop, + a razer Keyboard and mouse and pad, and it should be good, But what's the deal with this AA, is it that much GPU intensive? And for most games what's the AA that does not cost too much performance and makes everything smooth? x4? and tell about MSAA too if you know any information..
     
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    Hello, be extremely careful as Intel chip-sets will not handle the video for a long period of time. To answer your question about temp I would be cautious of it going any higher than 65 Celsius, it will began to fail if run for long periods of time above that temperature. If you are able to play HD vids you won't be able to for long. This video chip is a BGA chip and is not dedicated like a desktop, be careful, if you notice glitching, video freezes, dithering or other signs related to video issues stop. Or you will have to get the chip re-balled to fix the issue, but you will still be only limited by what the computers graphics chips are capable of. Most are not capable of playing newer games very few are capable unless you have spent close $2000 or more for a laptop with a dedicated video card, but even those will eventually fail to. Try to keep it as cool as you can always and take care of it. Good luck.. :D

    Regards,

    Don