Causes of Your Laptop Overheating
Over the years, consumer computing has miniaturized to have increasingly smaller components, capable of equipping thinner and lighter laptops...
While the electrical voltage remains constant.
Laptops are particularly affected by these temperature increases and experience slowdowns that will eventually accelerate the premature wear of components, abnormal fan noise, and repeated crashes.
What are the factors of overheating and how to avoid them? We tell you everything in this article!
Avoiding Overheating: Performance of Asus Laptops
The new models of Asus laptops incorporate two side fans with two air outlets on each side or at the back. One fan is dedicated to cooling the CPU, and another is dedicated to cooling the GPU (graphics card), increasing the cooling capacity of fragile components.
Thus, you will have fewer overheating problems!
The shape and appearance of the air outlet for some models (like the UX series) are hidden for aesthetic reasons: ventilation is therefore an integral part of the lower shell of the computer.
How to Avoid Overheating on My PC?
Place it on a Flat Surface and in the Shade
It is strongly recommended to use a laptop on a flat and rigid surface, such as a desk or a table... Avoid placing it on your lap, a bed, or even a blanket: heat dissipation is difficult on these surfaces.
A ventilation system equipped with an offset fan placed under the laptop allows you to raise your laptop, which is always a plus for its use, but it mainly allows to increase and optimize the dissipation of hot air to the outside.
If you've decided to work outdoors on sunny days, avoid leaving your computer in direct sunlight, and prefer a shaded and well-ventilated area.
Be Mindful of Dust in Your Computer
A major factor in the increased overheating of a laptop is dust and, to a lesser extent, long hair or tar from cigarettes.
It is recommended to use a dry air canister once or twice a month: simply slide its spray nozzle into the vents (fan vents, ports, and keyboard) of your laptop to remove the dust lodged inside.
Prefer the air canister over the vacuum cleaner, which, even at its lowest power, could damage fragile components or the keyboard of your computer.Avoid unnecessary programs.
Your PC's overheating can also come from software. Check that you don't have a multitude of unnecessary and resource-intensive programs launching at startup. Many programs tend to heavily utilize the computer's resources as soon as it is turned on.
So, consider removing these programs to reduce the processor's workload and avoid unnecessary overheating. You can also close internet windows that you're not using, which will prevent the memory (RAM) from being unnecessarily stressed.
You can see in the image above that Firefox uses most of the 80% of memory resources, as many internet tabs are active in the session. There are also 130 processes running in the background, which is way too much at computer startup.
Change the Computer's Thermal Paste
If you're good enough at computer repair, you can proceed with changing the thermal paste.
Check out our tutorial on our YouTube channel Accessoires Asus TV "How to Replace Thermal Paste".
The thermal paste is used to transfer the heat generated by the processor through the heatsink and dissipate it with the help of the fan. To remove the old paste, all you need is a cotton swab and alcohol, then replace it with the new one (about the size of a grain of rice).
Don't Keep Your Laptop Plugged in All the Time
If you need to use your laptop exclusively at home, we also advise you to use it on power without the battery engaged. Indeed, a laptop plugged in continuously tends to unnecessarily heat the battery and damage it more quickly.
If the battery of your laptop is located under the rear chassis, it is preferable to work on battery power rather than on power, even if these latest laptop models are designed so that the battery overheating is less than on old models with detachable batteries.
How to Detect the Temperature of My PC?
There are several tools to monitor the temperature of your laptop's components.
SpeedFan: This very practical utility allows you to control the speed of various fans in the computer based on the temperature of certain components.
Open Hardware Monitor: This small free software allows you to monitor the temperature, usage, frequency, and fan speed of several components of the PC.
We hope all these recommendations will help you if you encounter this kind of problem, feel free to contact us for more information via our contact form.