Is your laptop overheating?
78% of people in the world use laptops due to its easy access and its portable to carry anywhere you go. Having a laptop is easy but maintaining it correctly is important too.
The reason behind over heating is probably, due to less air ventilation available for the system. Just, as how much air is important for humans, technologies are in need of good air intake too.
Due to dust blockage, cooling fan malfunctioning, thermal compound or well know as thermal grease leakage or a well know issue is your laptop is not kept on a flat surface.
Dust Blockage: The carelessness of keeping your lap covered with dust or not cleaning it up often, could damage the internal systems with dust particles. Specially on circuit boards or allowing dust to be stored around the cooling fan, that would block air flow due to adhesive dust on fan blades, that reduces the efficiency to cool down your laptop.
Frequently, make a habit to clean your laptop and its surrounding surface to keep your system running smooth.
Cooling Fan Malfunctioning: Due to an hardware problem, your cooling Fan might be pausing its rotation to run smooth. Due to this damage sector of your cooling fan, the needed air cooling is terminated and shutdown, with this, the temperature of both CPU and the motherboard increases.
This could be due to sudden drop or quick shocks on your laptop, which could affect incorrect positioning of your cooling fan.
Its better to get a PC repair check on your Laptop, if your not familiar with hardware repairs on a computer.
Laptop is not kept on a flat surface: Children and adults, are mostly using their laptops on beds, cushions, on pillows and mostly on your lap.
Well the Laptop is know as a “LAP” top but yet, its not positive replies given by doctors “dermatologists/ skin specialists” in resting a laptop on your LAP, due to its heat performance, it could give burn marks and skin allergies.
Using a cooling fan would be a better option when using a laptop on top of your bed or using your machine not on a flat surface. A cooling fan is designed to support good air ventilation and providing much more air flow, under the laptop. As a cooling fan is usually built, 2 inches taller, this will allow your laptop, to easily send air in and out through its air ventilation portals without any issues.
Even though, good cleaning and maintenance on both Laptop and cooling fan is a must.
Another area that would affect in Laptop over heating is, when the use of multi tasking with high RAM percentage programs, which are open and running simultaneously and parallel, could cause over heating.
Check on your OS (Operating System), task manager for the most percentage driven programs from your computer RAM (Random Access Memory) for a long period, that could be affecting your machine with low performance.
Check on your other startup applications, if you do not need any start up programs, its recommended to end or remove those programs from the startup program portal. So that your system runs smoothly.
What OS are more smooth: Linux/ Ubuntu 100%, MAC 85%, Windows 70%
What Laptop brands are best for less over heating: ASUS 90%, APPLE 86%, Lenova 80%, Dell 75%, Acer 65%
Choose the correct OS and Laptop Brand and its specifications, depending and suiting your work area, to avoid purchasing a new laptop every year.
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Article by : Inshath Cader
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