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anyone playing on a laptop i7?

rayrdanrayrdan Member Posts: 5,410 Arc User
edited May 2015 in General Discussion (PC)
so i recently experienced 2 crashes due to protection on my asus notebook with i7 4710hd and a gtx 860m
Its relatively new, bought at christmas and i decided to download one of those program to check temperature.
its like 40° in hiddle and 60-70 with peak at 80° while playing expecially if in charging because of low battery.
are these new cpu supposed to overheat this much?
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  • generaldiomedesgeneraldiomedes Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 207 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Its the graphics chip, not the CPU .. and yeah GPUs have been space heaters for a while now. I can't put mine directly on my lap without **** near burning myself.

    I also got an ultrabook style laptop without the industrial strength fans of thicker models .. those aren't quite as bad.
  • djarkaandjarkaan Member Posts: 883 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I suggest buying a cooling pad, especially if use an external monitor with the lid close and game for 3-4 hours at a time. Laptops are design the release heat through the keyboard.
  • mifiisumifiisu Member Posts: 205 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I see it as more of a laptop problem in general as there's no real room for decent cooling by default. Mine (i5) peaks at about 60 (C) wth NWO, but I run it on low performance settings. When I first tried to push performance up so I could try higher in-game graphic settings I could have fried eggs on it :P
  • rayrdanrayrdan Member Posts: 5,410 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I got a cooling pad but does not seem to make any big differences
  • generaldiomedesgeneraldiomedes Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 207 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Did you get one with its own fans? I found they make a noticeable difference.
  • djarkaandjarkaan Member Posts: 883 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Targus HD3 Gaming Chillmat (AWE57CA)

    Here's the one I use and works pretty well. Unfortunately its a dust magnet but better then it being the laptop.
  • rayrdanrayrdan Member Posts: 5,410 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    seems definitely better of the one im using. a 15 euros one from trust.
    however the charging really influences the temps from the testings im running in these hours
  • ph33rm3ph33rm3 Member Posts: 549 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Your temps are perfectly normal. I have the 3D version of the Asus g75 (Neverwinter in 3d is pretty cool). I don't own a cooling pad and have been running with those temperatures for over a year. You'll be fine. Asus makes quality products.
  • suicidalgodotsuicidalgodot Member Posts: 2,465 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I'm running the game on a 3y-old i5 with a GTX570m and it's fan-noisy when run on full max spec. I get significant improvement by just ticking "Ambient Occlusion" off, which also gives me a higher FPS rate. Reducing Shadows to "off" makes the fan go all but silent (little more rpm than e.g. web-browsing).
  • nannhynannhy Member Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I'm playing on an Alienware 18 and this thing gets hottt.. but it never shuts down. works like a charm... will buy another one and keeping as my spare..
  • blackxxwolf3blackxxwolf3 Member Posts: 1,539 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    nope....................
  • hadestemplar#9918 hadestemplar
    hadestemplar#9918
         Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,184 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    rayrdan wrote: »
    so i recently experienced 2 crashes due to protection on my asus notebook with i7 4710hd and a gtx 860m
    Its relatively new, bought at christmas and i decided to download one of those program to check temperature.
    its like 40° in hiddle and 60-70 with peak at 80° while playing expecially if in charging because of low battery.
    are these new cpu supposed to overheat this much?
    Clean your hardware, also if I would be in your possition I would remove laptops bottom and put all laptop on cooling pad.
    Next optimize your system to decrease heat. I mean turn off all services and utilities which u don't need for gaming, also run some cleaning utilities like TuneUp or Advanced system care to clean hard drive and defrag it. Also clean and defrag registry..
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  • nolashmendesnolashmendes Member Posts: 25 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    ^
    i run with an i7 3630QM + gt 640m+ 8g of ram and as suicidalgodot said with all that off my game runs smooth as butter.


    P.S
    win 8.1 64bit
  • tvcitytvcity Member Posts: 208 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    i can assure you that the overheating is Neverwinter's fault. I too play on a laptop, all my games work fine with normal gpu temps. Only Neverwinter takes my gpu to 90 degree celsius and crashes it....
  • ryfghbvryfghbv Member Posts: 51 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    Mine is a Asus n46, GT 740m, i7 3630qm @3.60ghz, cpu goes to 95° while gpu to 80°, i play like 5 hours daily and never crashed, maybe update your drivers?
  • hadestemplar#9918 hadestemplar
    hadestemplar#9918
         Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,184 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    tvcity wrote: »
    i can assure you that the overheating is Neverwinter's fault. I too play on a laptop, all my games work fine with normal gpu temps. Only Neverwinter takes my gpu to 90 degree celsius and crashes it....

    I can assure u are wrong 100%.

    If what u say would be true. Than my laptop. Toshiba satellite L750D-14e would not handle game. After all its have AMD apu A6-3400m. And u know I play Neverwinter without big problems.. So the problem is inside your own hardware/software.
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  • xxmantaraxxxxmantaraxx Member Posts: 362 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    My I3 handles neverwinter like a champ. My buddies I7 looks a little better but it gets HOT as Hellz. Get a cooling pad for sure.

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  • hadestemplar#9918 hadestemplar
    hadestemplar#9918
         Member, NW M9 Playtest Posts: 1,184 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    xxmantaraxx wrote: »
    My I3 handles neverwinter like a champ. My buddies I7 looks a little better but it gets HOT as Hellz. Get a cooling pad for sure.

    Personally I am against laptop with Intel core I7. Laptops are not build for power computing. When come hard workloads desktop pc are far better solution. And when comes laptops I think best is to keep max up to Intel core I5. Which will give enough power for gaming, programing, and other stuffs to do.

    Also its rare thing to use full intel i7 capability when u use laptop. So I think it's just waste of money to keep intel i7 mobile.
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  • linaduinlinaduin Member Posts: 187 Arc User
    edited May 2015
    I usually play desktop but have a Toshiba L850 satellite (i7 8GB RAM Radeon HD 7670M GPU Win7-64bit) for travel and mucking around. Neverwinter makes it pretty hot (fan goes crazy) - it definitely gets hotter playing NW than anything else I do but I'm not a serious gamer (YRMV). It goes thermonuclear (but it's never shutdown) when I try to play NW and run image analysis scripts on MATLAB in the background - I could literally re-heat a cold cup of coffee by leaving it next to fan outlet for 30 mins. I don't literally play in my lap (is that even possible?) but at a desk. Agree that fast i5 is more sensible than i7 for most people - that would extend to most desktop users too.
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