Acer Aspire F15 heating problem

JohnDeep

I have the Acer F15 Laptop and I am trying to play the PUBG game and follow this process to install the game on my laptop, but my laptop gets hot. can someone suggest me how to avoid this problem. you suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

aphanic

It may not be a problem per se, it is normal for the computer to heat up as you're pushing its hardware (i.e. making it work faster or more intensively).

To try to reduce the heat generation there are a couple of things you could do:

• Reduce the resolution you're playing the game at, or its graphical settings. That would make it easier for the graphics card and it should lead to less heat. It may not be possible or acceptable, but it's one of the posible options.
• Turn off Turbo Boost or HyperThreading. I think both options are configured in the system firmware / BIOS and they may very well not be present, in which case maybe Intel's XTU (an userspace program) could help. Turbo Boost is in charge of boosting the speed of the CPU for a short while and HyperThreading is the technology Intel uses for simultaneous multi processing, making it look like you have more cores than you actually do in other words.
  
  Turning off any of those may help a bit towards generating less heat.
• Lowering the core voltage. Take this with a grain of salt because we're delving into underclocking now (you'd have heard of overclocking maybe, this is the oposite) and it may make your system unstable if you go too low. If possible, Intel's XTU will let you know and I'd start at a -15mV for the cores and see how that goes. There was a guy in the forums that mentioned getting a stable system at -130mV, but I personally thing I never went past -50mV without the system crashing at one point or another.
• Less intrusive than that although debatable would be to open up your machine and clean it up inside, including and specially the fan and its exhaust. Those thin metal fins tend to accumulate stuff overtime and make the function of the fan less effective. Long story short the heat is generated in at least 2 points, the CPU and the GPU, that heat is transferred through a copper pipe up to a heatsink next to the fan. The fan is in charge of getting fresh air into the system and make it go across the pipe(s) and fins, and that heat exchange keeps the machine running cooler.
• If you're at that stage, you could also try re-pasting your CPU and GPU. That's the name for taking out the cooling solution (the pipe(s) I talk about earlier) and clean them up underneath where they interface with those components. There should be some goo at best and some dry thing at worst. Isopropyl alcohol works well to remove those rests, then you'd use a newer thermal compound (preferrably high grade, but you don't have to go to liquid metal, there are several good compounds out there and they're not very expensive) and put things up in place.
  
  What that paste or liquid does is to transfer heat from the CPU/GPU to the pipe, the better thermal conductivity the compound has, the more efficiently it'll transfer heat and the sooner it could be dissipated by the cooling solution.
• Finally, if your laptop were made out of metal putting it over a metal surface or a rocky one (think marble) would help as well because part of the heat would be transferred to those surfaces instead. With plastic undercovers it's not nearly as effective, plastic is not good at heat transferring.
• Cooling racks with fans could help alleviate the issue too, but they're hit or miss depending on many things, for example how high the laptop is and the positions of the fans (ideally if the computer gets fresh air from below you'd want one fan being under the one in the laptop).

All in all... there's no easy answer and some require some degree of expertise (or patience and guides, I've found people who knew nothing about re-pasting do a fantastic job just by looking at YouTube videos and reading blog posts on the matter).

I hope any of it helps, but up to a point that a computer gets hot while in use is normal and completely expected.

JohnDeep

Thank for your response. My computer is working perfectly and there is no problem when using it in normal programming. but when i play pubg it starts to heat up. I use this method to install the game. you can check and let me know if there is something wrong.