Notebooks & Netbooks

[mellomilky]

My laptop crashes when I'm playing games.

Also it overheats like crazy.

[mellomilky]

Also my temperature for GPU is high - it's currently showing 80c without GAMES.

I think this temp gets over 90c when I turn on games.

I got this laptop only 6 months ago and...this is uncomfortable.

Help fix.

[mellomilky]

Here's screenshot of Temp reading.

http://s15.postimg.org/xw6trlv97/Temp.png

[silizium]

Speedfan on a notbook is not a good idea. Do you have overclocked your rig?

[mellomilky]

I don't use SpeedFan to accelerate or improve anything...

Just look at the temperature that it shows - It's about 80c without any activity .

Turned on a game and it's peaking around 95c and more. One more degree to that and it's auto-shutdown...

[edited to comply with guidelines]

[mellomilky]

Something about NOISE.

Now I think that Fan is not-so-active relative to GPU usage...

I don't hear loud noise when I'm playing games.. stragenly...

[silizium]

You practically answered you question for youself. That's of course the reason for high temperature.

[mellomilky]

But this is abnormal, isn't it?

I bought my laptop only 6 months ago.

I didn't have same experience when I was using Samsung.

I might be wrong but is it normal with Acer to overheat? (or fan not working properly?)

[rarhea]

I have an older Aspire laptop with no fan ativity at all. I replaced the fan and the new one doesn't work either. I was told to replace motherboard next. Is that sound advice?

[silizium]

Of course it is not normal. You may have a hardware fault or simply something very wrong configured. You could use a Linux live CD to look if your hardware is working with Linux as you expect. What means whether the fan is working.