Hi guys, last question before i make my decision. Does it get super hot and overheat when gaming intensively? As in it needs an exterior fan
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actually one of the things i love about this laptop i the cooling feature. When gaming, it gets, warm. When just using it to go on the web, it spits out cold air. like if i left it on right now, it would be some good air conditioning.
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The case comes with a power supply which has a fan and a small case fan on the side/top of the unit. There are no places to install additional fans. One nice thing though is that the CPU fan has a vent directly above it. So in a way the CPU fan acts as a case fan because the case is so small and the side vent is so close to the CPU. I'm running an A10-5800K APU and I haven't had overheating issues. I did have overheating issues when I attempted to overclock it. It's not exactly an overclocking case. You're most likely going to be fine with up to 100W TDP CPU or APU in this case. I highly recommend looking into AMDs line of APUs. With an APU in this thing you can make a mighty fine SteamBox. One thing worth mentioning is that this case is TIGHT! My CD drive is touching my ram. There is no extra clearance. If you get ram that has huge cooling fins you may have a bad day depending on the layout of your motherboard.
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If you are using it for a serious gaming machine, it may shut down from overheating itself. Otherwise it seemed to cool itself fine.
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Sorry for the late reply here bud......The fan on this thing is pretty excellent. After a 2 hour long BF4 session the fan can cool from 75c+ down to about 35-40c in 2-3minutes.
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I have not experienced any overheating. The console has small round "legs" and sits high enough for airflow. I maxed the board out about 40 nights in a row last fall in this case and never an issue of it getting warm.
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I'm using one for my A8 HD media stereaming and game playing. I don't have temperature readings for you but can tell you my computer has never overheated. My case never gets hot either as long as there is proper airflow.
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It isn't significant running in typical environments. System intense rendering can get that fan humming but it still isn't annoying. I control the fan while running Bootcamp and crank it to max when gaming and only then is it very loud. However I am okay with that cause you need to keep a card cool for gaming.
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It depends I suppose. Like I stated in my comment, my laptop primarily overheats when gaming. Overheats so bad that it actually turns off my laptop, haha.. This cooling pad has definitely ceased that, and it doesn't get as hot as it used to. It still gets warm-hot at certain times though, but I think that's normal for laptops. Other than gaming, it keeps my laptop cool-warm when I browse the internet, or do what I have to do on the computer. So does it effectively cool it? I would say yeah and no, since it depends on what you're doing.
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The card does get very hot. You can increase the max fan speed to help cool it off. This will make the card louder but it's a trade off.
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It's got one fan. You can manually turn on the extra power to it by pushing a button on the upper left of the keyboard. I play a lot of League of Legends, Sim City 5, etc... I run graphics at full quality and haven't had a problem. I do, because I always have, use a cooling pad, but I doubt that is absolutely necessary. The computer doesn't get very hot.
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The case vents extremely well. I have a GTX 780, and running Battlefield 4 on ultra for hours my max temp is 62C. I have 2 fans on the front, 1 on the back, and an exhaust on the side in front of GPU. It would still run fine without those, I just wanted colored lights there.
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It comes with a cooler boost thing, but the truth is it gets pretty hot when gaming.
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Well i've had this for about a month now yea it does get a bit hot but with the built in feature to increase the fan's vent after 2-3mins of that its quite fine though it could be me cause i tend to game heavy while it in my lap a lot on the table and whatsnot never really notice. Now the screen i've seen no issue so far pretty great purchase overall
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Its a pretty solid laptop, and some games you're not gonna run at full resolution like Crysis, BF3, and other infamous intensive games but they still run well. I haven 't had heat issues and once I got the Video drivers sorted out the card overclocks really well as well (which most people don't recommend but my card is overclocked significantly and stays around 70c) For the games you've mentioned though it's plenty. The overall package is pretty awesome and as a pc gamer I'm pretty happy, but at the end of the day its still a laptop.
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You're definitely right! I think the chip outputs too much heat. What I did is undervolted the cpu from the BIOS and also disabled the AMD Turbo Technology, and now it's so much cooler and quieter. Temp on idle around 30-35 load 50-55. Lowest degree was 25. That's insane with the stock fan!
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Mine doesn't overheat while playing games, but it gets quite warm due to the placement of the vents near my gaming hand (vents are on the right side and i'm right handed). Also, it comes with a charger and a battery, the battery is removable.
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I actually had mine in a pretty small, mini-itx build. It stayed reasonably cool during most day-to-day operations with the stock fan, between 35C and 50C--and that's without any other case fans. As long as you aren't doing anything too CPU-intensive, I'd consider the stock fan pretty adequate. Good luck with you build