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    gaming-heat problems

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by compman91, Jan 3, 2008.

  1. compman91

    compman91 Notebook Guru

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    would there be any heat problems in the future if i was doing continuous hours of oblivion with a 160gb 7200rpm hitachi hard drive? xps m1530
     
    compman91, Jan 3, 2008
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  2. Tim

    Tim Notebook Virtuoso

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    You shouldn't have any problems. Just make sure you monitor your temperatures. You can check out the cooling guide for some tips on keeping your laptop cool. I recommend undervolting your CPU. It dropped my laptops temperature by about 10C when playing games.
     
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    compman91 Notebook Guru

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    undervolting? you mean bring down it's GHz, so basically the opposite of overclocking?
     
    compman91, Jan 3, 2008
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    n0elia Come on Haswell...

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    No bring down the volt, so that it runs cooler! I've done it, and managed to cool down the cpu by 8-10c degrees.
    And it has NO impact on performance

    You can use RmClock to do it
    Here
     
    n0elia, Jan 3, 2008
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