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By design, laptop parts are cramped very closely together inside a tight space to allow for portability. As a result, laptops tend to heat up fairly quickly because cooling airflow isn’t given enough legroom to sufficiently lower the heat generated by the laptop components.
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HOW TO KEEP YOUR LAPTOP
FROM OVERHEATING
SOURCE: http://www.onlinemarketblog.com/technology/how-to-keep-your-laptop-from-overheating/
Prevention is always better than cure; so here below are 5 useful tips to help your laptop stave off overheating.
Reduce Power Consumption
Here are some ways to individually control how much power an individual laptop component uses. Simply click on the Start Menu button, go to Control Panel, choose Power Options, and proceed from there.
If you don’t use a lot of resource-hungry programs like video games, make “power saving” the default mode for your laptop . Only switch it back temporarily to “high performance” if you want to fire up a game every now and then.
Clear the Vents of Dust
Use a can of compressed air (you can get one for just $10) and blow the dust away.A couple of reminders: First, make sure that your laptop is turned off
before you attempt this. Second, use the can of air at an angle, as blowing air straight on will only serve to let the dust go further inside your laptop.
Use a Cooling Pad
If you have $30 on you, you may want to consider purchasing a laptop cooler. It’s basically like a tray with fans that you place your laptop on. It’s a nifty laptop peripheral which could immensely help your laptop to hold off the heat.
Use Your Laptop in a Cool Environment
Heat generation won’t necessarily be prevented, but extreme temperatures will be diminished if you use your laptop in a cool environment. Of course, it’s not always that you have access to an air-conditioned room; but as long as you go to the least hot area in any given place, that should be helpful enough.
If you have the luxury of options, though, go for places with temperatures at 70 degrees and below. This is the standard temperature used in computer server rooms, and it should be more than sufficient to keep your laptop’s temperature to a minimum.
Turn Off Your Laptop When Not in Use
Given enough time, sufficient heat will be generated, which could factor in a lot once you wake your laptop up from hibernation.
Instead of letting your laptop hibernate, just shut it down completely after use.
This one is quite the no-brainer, but you’d be surprised at how many people tend to neglect this.
Being in “hibernation mode” isn’t enough. Sure, your computer isn’t consuming a lot of power, but it’s still consuming regardless.
