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Q: does your chinese brand laptop overheat constantly?

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general answer not specific to Chinese laptops

by overheat, do you mean, "gets really hot but keeps running" or do you mean "gets really hot and crashes, despite it being a new laptop".

In the first case, you can get these cooling pads (sort of a stand with a fan in that will help), in the latter case it would be a lost cause.

I've seen Dell laptops that gets extremely hot, but keeps running. So hot that there would be a burn risk by having it on the lap.  My current Lenovo, bought in Europe but produced in China does run pretty hot, but looking inside it, one can tell the engineering around the cooling is pretty solid

crimochina:

do you check the temp? my hasee constantly runs at 75 -80C just surfing the net.

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I don't actually check the temp, it's pretty warm. Most of the time it is stuck in a docking station for it, which means it is a bit elevated from the table surface and most importantly, it is not in my lap. I recently bought a new fan for it from taobao, as I don't have measurements it's just a hunch that it is running slightly cooler now, if not then at least more quiet. It was an original part for the laptop. At the same time I also replaced the hard drive with an SSD which produces less heat and also lowers the battery temperature slightly as it is discharged a bit slower. 

 

If your laptop has a Chinese windows installation with all sorts of crap and 360 browser and anti malware, then get hold of a Win7 or 8 license and install it from scratch (both win 7 & 8 you can install trial without having a license, but it will only run for some weeks) 

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I don't own a chinese brand laptop so I wouldn't know! Crimo I'm surprised that you have one. I thought you would be anti china on almost everything from what I've been hearing from you lately!

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Laptops overheat pretty easily, especially if there isn't proper cooling. To prevent your laptop from getting damaged from the heat, you can get one of those cooling pads that you put under the laptop. Get a good brand like Coolermaster.

Another option is to disable useless Windows processes and services to prevent them from eating up memory for no reason.  Services like SearchIndexer and Superfetch use a lot of memory and can be disabled.

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Yes! And those special cushion thingys with fans don't work in the slightest. It's so annoying!

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You need to take a can of compressed air to your laptop vents every 6-12 months. Otherwise the heatsinks gets filled with dust and the heat can't go from the laptop to the air properly.

 

 

BHGAL:

I have looked for air..........  can't get it here in China....... can you????? Taobaom aybe at $20 a can  ...send me some!!!!!!!!

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My Chinese laptop does indeed overheat. Though to be fair, my roommates year old expensive as hell Macbook does too.

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I have had my Acer Aspire for over 3 years and it has been plugged in and running ever since............  no problem ......  except for the odd intrusion from unknown sources..........  it is and always has been quite warm...oh well

crimochina:

what is the processor type

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pentium dual core (r) cpu T4300@2.1ghz

 

4gb ram

64 bit o/s

 

 

windows operating experience   3.3

 

happy with it............  cheap and still working!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I have a toshiba notebook.....not so good.....  and a compaq presario chinese o/s ..not so good

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ok, mine is core 3 , probably too powerful

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I don't think it's a Chinese brand thing but a China thing with all the dust and crap in the air clogging your fan.

I have a 2 year old Sony laptop and for the past few months it crashes all the time from being too hot...usually when I connect it to the TV with an HDMI cable to watch movies.

As Sidicas said...compressed air will help.

I put a frozen fish under the fan now when watching movies...works like a charm.

BHGAL:

smart ass..back in about 1995 ....  with my 1MB processor or maybe it was 3MB...and my son was 3 years old.......  I used to run the thing with ice cubes on the processor to keep it going for him.....hahahahahah  ...MEMORIES!!!!  ICE CUBES!!!!!

I didn't know what I wa doing then...... and I sure as hell don't know what I am doing now.....

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I don't know. My Chinese laptop has pirate software that won't change the language to English, so I can't use it. Still need to get that fixed. I bought it at Vanguard so I didn't expect to see any pirates. Silly me. Aaaaarrrrrr matey!!

My USA HP Pavilion runs 24/7 and never overheats. It's 4 years old. I think I'll just keep it.

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I have a Chinese laptop, a pretty old one. I bought it 7 years ago. It gets hot but it keeps on working.  I heard about those cooling pads but never saw them.

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