For the past few months, I've been unable to play any games for longer than maybe 20 minutes, due to my computer overheating. I've had fans on it, gave it lots of air, tried putting it in Eco mode, and everything I could think of.
I did some research and found this happens because whenever a game is played, or multiple monitors are used, the GPU is set to 100%, and it over heats.
If I get a new graphics card, will it fix everything for the most part? Is there anything I can do other than paying TONS of money to fix it, and how long would be a reasonable time until I can make repairs, because I'm trying to get this fixed before Skyrim comes out.
[url=http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Qosmio-Laptops/Another-overheating-Qosmio-X505-880-problem-need-help/td-p/110240/page/2]Here[/url] and [url=http://forums.techarena.in/portable-devices/1399644.htm] here[/url] are people talking about basically the same problem I have, but I'm not incredibly computer savvy, so I'm not sure exactly what I should do.
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You know what OP, the other day my dad and I took a vacuum and sucked literally 5 pounds of dust out of my fan. There was so much I don't even know how it all fit in there. Seriously, just clean out the insides. After that my computer had no problem with overheating, as apposed to before where it would shut itself off alot.
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[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] TheHawk62 I would reccomend backing up your data asap. Your laptop is nearing death.[/quote] I just bought it last year for Christmas, though. :/ There's nothing I could really do?
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I would reccomend backing up your data asap. Your laptop is nearing death. [Edited on 10.29.2011 8:30 PM PDT]