TL;DR
Ensure Proper Airflow
One of the primary causes of overheating is inadequate airflow. Make sure your computer is placed in a location where it can intake cool air and exhaust hot air efficiently. Avoid placing laptops on soft surfaces like blankets that can block vents [2:1]. For desktops, ensure that they are not confined in tight spaces like cabinets
[2:1]. Increasing room ventilation by opening windows or using fans can also help reduce ambient temperature
[3:1].
Regular Cleaning
Dust accumulation is a common cause of overheating. Dust can clog fans and vents, reducing their efficiency. Regularly clean your computer's interior with compressed air to remove dust buildup [1:1]
[5:4]. Pay special attention to CPU and GPU coolers, as well as any filters covering intakes/exhausts
[2:2].
Cooling Accessories
For laptops, consider using a cooling pad which can significantly lower temperatures by improving airflow around the device [4:1]. Desktop users might benefit from adding more case fans or using an external fan directed at the PC to enhance cooling
[5:1]. Cooling pads and additional fans can help maintain a stable temperature during intensive tasks like gaming
[5:2].
Component Adjustments
Undervolting your GPU or CPU can reduce the amount of heat they generate without sacrificing performance [1:5]. Additionally, adjusting fan curves to increase fan speed when temperatures rise can help manage heat more effectively
[1:2]. Limiting FPS or reducing graphical settings in games can also decrease the load on your system, thereby reducing heat output
[3:3].
Monitor and Maintain
Regularly monitor your system's temperatures using software tools to ensure they remain within safe limits. If you notice a sudden increase in temperature, inspect your system for potential issues such as failed fans or obstructed airflow [5:3]. Keeping an eye on these metrics can help you address problems before they lead to hardware damage.
I have this issue where my gaming pc overheats when i play games like gta 5 and doom eternal. Is there a safe way i can stop my gaming pc from overheating without changing any parts since i'm not old enough or experienced enough to do so? (Specs: Gpu: Rx 58 4gb | Cpu: Intel core i5 8400)
Desktop right? Have you determined what is overheating? Is it GPU or CPU? You should run some diagnostics to find out and then change your fan curves to increase air flow assuming you’re not already maxed out.
Clean off the fans and don't use it so much. You also might want to get a better case. Most prebuilts have shitty airflow. Get a decent Corsair case in a local micro center and have the guys there transplant it for you.
your computer can overheat because your computer has bad airflow due to not having enough fans. more fans in your computer can help cool down your computer better if the airflow is decent enough where your computer doesn't get too hot
Undervolt your gpu and also set fan curve. Check YouTube for the best settings and how to do it
If it's a desktop there are a couple easy things you can try.
1) Take the cover off and clean it out.
To do this, power off the computer and unplug the power cord. Remove the side panel (usually the left hand side if you're looking at the front of the computer). Depending on the construction, there will either be a couple of screws holding it on in the back, or a small lever/handle on the side that releases the panel.
With the side panel removed, blow the dust and dirt out of the system. The best way to do this is with a can of compressed air like this (which can be found online or in pretty much any hardware store), or the blower end of a shop vac. Best to do this outside on a dry windy day so as to not blow a bunch of dust back into your room (take pictures of how everything plugs in before you unplug it if you're not sure where everything goes). Make sure to blow air through all the vents including the power supply in the back.
Once no more dust seems to come out, put the side panel back on, plug everything back in, and power it up.
2) Leave the side panel off when gaming.
Some PCs just have really terrible air flow because of the way their case and fans are laid out. The easiest solution to this is to just take the side panel off when you're gaming.
So the last pc I had stopped working due to overheating and then the laptop I had afterwards also stopped working due to overheating and I want to know how to stop this before I get my new pc for Christmas. Idk if I did something wrong or if they were just broken. I don't have them anymore so I can't send any pics and it'd been nearly a year since I've had them so I might be a little foggy on the details if you guys need more info. Also when I mean overheating I mean that for my laptop at least that I could turn it on and it'll run for a couple minutes then do the shutting down screen saying it was due to overheating. I think my pc was kinda the same except I stopped being able to turn it on. Sorry if this isn't much help but any help would be appreciated thanks!
How dusty did they get? Dust build up on the cpu/gpu coolers can cause them to over heat as well as dust build up on any filters covering intakes/exhausts. Did you ever clean them of dust?
Also how long did you have them for?
About half a year for the laptop and a year for the pc and I wasn't completely sure you needed to clean the fans and stuff and I thought I'd break something if I touched the inside of the pc tbh cause I'm super clumsy.
Computers need to breath. Are you putting the laptop on blankets and other fabric surfaces? If so don't it needs air to remove heat.
Same goes for a desktop computer they need to be able to take in air and exhaust it out. If it's in a tiny nook or cabinet it won't be able to do that. Dust and hair. If you let it build to a tipping point it can lead to overheating.
I had the laptop just on my desk and I had my pc under my desk on the floor.
So everytime I play my pc is going so hot. It heats up my room to like 26-32°C after 1-2 hours of playing. How can I fix this issue?
Exhaust the hot air from your room.
Limit FPS to values supported by your monitor (e.g. 60FPS) or just enable VSync
Undervolt GPU and/or CPU
Use lower resolution and/or quality settings to reduce GPU load. Usually a lot of settings give you almost no visual changes but require a lot of computational power.
open your room's window.
Hey guys, considering its so hot (Im from Lahore), literally every piece of furniture is radiating heat, how do we stop our devices from overheating?
Like let say using the laptop in a non AC room it gets to like 70°C with just streaming YT, or the phone takes forever to fast charge as it heats up immediately.
What can one do? I cant have an AC in each room. Im very annoyed by my phone charging so slowly, are there any devices that could help? The basic fan coolers that are for gaming are of no help. So if anyone has any other solution, that would not require me to give a kidney in return. Please recommend!
Airflow. I use a pedestal fan directed at the laptop and it keeps the temps low. The laptop is already on a cooling pad but the cooling pad fans usually have poor airflow.
Generally, 70°C for laptop is normal.
thats not cpu core temps, thats dedicated gpu temps on yt, and the whole laptop body is radiating heat
use a desktop instead. that way the heat doesn't radiate on you.
Get cooling fan pad for laptop and cooling device for mobile also. There is no other way except being in ac chilled room.
Get a cooling pad. If used properly it can lower 10-15⁰C or more (depends on laptops vent size) and also decrease load on laptop fans.
Also note that computer CPUs are made to withstand up to 100⁰C. 70 is on the safe side.
But the battery's health will decrease fast if devices heat that much
What i do with my apple devices is to fully charge them early morning when the temperature is somewhat manageable and just use them carefully throughout the day when its blazing hot..
Played about 24h and this was never an issue. Now it suddenly is! My PC overheats to the point of a full system crash.
Anyone had this issue or know how to fix it?
Thanks :)
It might need new fans, but if it's a laptop you could try propping up the back to allow air to get underneath the bottom (and so heat doesn't get trapped there). Some cooling pads with built in fans may help, too.
Check and see if all your fans are turning on. Maybe one of them has failed.
Clean out your pc. If the cooling was fine before and isn't now, it's a cleaning issue.
This isn't a problem with the game, it's a problem with your computer. Your cpu is likely over heating. You can run a benchmark on your computer and monitor the temps to confirm. You either need to dust things out really good, or increase the fan curve to push more air. If you have a AIO liquid cooler, it's possible that the pump died as well. But running a benchmark and watching the temps would be a good place to start. Then you can make changes and see how the temps react
Dusty fans? Use a vacuum to clean them.
More fans?
Get more airflow around the case, point an external fan at it?
My devices always overheat in the summer, what are your best ways to prevent that?
I use a small usb fan and its right next to the keyboard at all times.
My laptop started overheating just yesterday, reaching 100 °C and shutting down. I have HP Omen 17 with I7 13700HX RTX 4080. While CPU reaches 90-95 during gaming, GPU stays around 70. The problem is related to thermal paste and I will replace that along with thermal putty. Also bought a laptop cooler, people say that IETS GT600 do help by 10-15 Celsius. Will test once I have it. You can also try limiting FPS in games and see if it helps by not utilizing your GPU and CPU at max power. I tried undervolting the CPU but there is a block on BIOS and I am too scared to mess with that.
Hope it helps.
Yup everything you said it's true, I tho would recommend you use PTM7950 from Honeywell or equivalent thermal pads like Grizzly's thermalpads or Thermalrights Heilos, phase changing thermalpads like the ones I mentioned are WAY and I mean WAY better than normal paste/putty and last significantly longer.
IETS GT600 or Ilano cooling pad are indeed the best and almost the only solutions. Although anything that doesn't plug into the laptop should be good even if it's not significant like the GT or Ilano.
Bought Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut and Putty today, I will try them, if they do not help, I will try thermalpads. Thanks for the tip.
llano ( like gt600) really help reduce the temp on my i9-14900hx cpu 15-20dgree..im in hot asian country.
It’s not a problem for people with AC, but I assume you’re in a place without access to AC so I’d say have some fans going in your room and probably a cooling pad would help a decent bit.
Going off that if you laptop pulls from the bottom of the chassis. Get an iets cooler for your laptop. It filters dust or crap and also helps the cooling. Otherwise more fans in the room may lead to dust building up way faster.
Hands down, best coolor money can buy. Had it since i bought my laptop on 2019 opened up my laptop once for deep clean, it was practically spotless. All I do is airdust the internals time to time from the outside and clean the filter on the iets cooler once a month.
I game on winter and go outside on the summer
I moved to Scotland.
Yeah like other people have said, PC's heat up a room. That's just how it goes. Undervolting is really the only option, but that hurts performance, and may not even lower your room temp too much.
So it all comes down to how well you can cool your room in general.
-Are you using whole house A/C? If so, make sure your room door is open and use a fan to circulate(blowing in right at the door is best).
-Is a window air conditioner an option? They aren't too expensive (you could even look for a local secondhand one) and that would make the difference right there.
Lastly, turn off your PC when you aren't using it! Like, anytime you'll be away more than 5 mins, just sleep it. If you have an SSD, booting back up shouldn't be a problem.
I mean, undervolting will do it. But really using more efficient parts is the only way to make a huge difference. But what's your goal here?
To make my room less warm, If I sweat, I can't move my mouse on my mousepad and I can't play.
Your chances of making the PC generate significantly less heat while not impacting performance are pretty slim.
Your better bet is to get a box fan and point it into your room, which will cause the hot air to exit.
Take the fucking panel off and shove a fan into it
Edit: everyone here got wooshed
*an air conditioner
if you want to damage your components then sure.
That'll move the heat, but it won't cause the parts to generate less heat.
Overclock it too
Underclock / undervolt the CPU, GPU, and RAM if available
Ram won't make much of a difference, ddr4 consumed 1-2w per dimm at reasonable speeds. Cpus often use upwards of 100w at stock (Intel uses heat output/power consumption at base clocks for tdp) and gpus can take a huge variety of amounts of power, but most decent ones are in the 150-250w be at load.
Honestly invest in an ac
My PC is making my room very hot around 85-90f. I have no ac and outside is hot. Also my pc is struggling to keep cool. Cpu temps reaching 90c and gpu reaching 95c and sometimes it crashes! Will a water cooler help my cpu temps? I’m getting new case fans because the ones that come with my case are trash.
better cooling will of course help bring the PC components temperatures down but it cant change the laws of thermodynamics and cool your room as well.
You can route hot air outside, but same laws will just bring hot air from outside back in elsewhere throughout the house.
Same reason why portable AC's with 1 hose don't really work.
If you more efficiently remove heat from your case/components, then your room gets hotter...
Assuming you are going with a bigger radiator than air cooler, then sure your CPU temps would likely go down, but they would with a bigger air cooler as well. Water cooling doesn't destroy energy as that's impossible, you're still just dissipating heat via a heatsink (which for watercooling is a radiator), and still relies on delta T (ambient temp).
I’m a bit confused, but doesn’t water absorb heat better than air so it would be cooler? Sorry if this is a stupid question.
Water has a higher density and specific heat. That means it can absorb more heat, but that heat needs to be expelled out of the system still. That means the only thing changing here is the time it takes to reach equilibrium of the system as a whole.
Given you can't destroy heat/energy, and heat introduced is the same, the difference in temperature you see is based on the amount of heat dissipated, which again is done via the heatsink or radiator (aka convection). The amount of heat dissipated is still a factor of surface area (so bigger the heatsink or radiator, the better) as well as delta T (temp difference which is based on ambient temps). You can verify this by looking up the formula for heat dissipation of convection.
Water in this case is used to transfer heat from the component to the radiator, it's not destroying heat along the way. Air coolers actually use heat pipes to do this, which does involve phase change in the gas tubes making them pretty darn efficient as well.
Whats your case ?
It’s the phanteks p300. I’d say the air flow is decent, but what do you think?
Had to check what °f is in °C and when your room gets that hot you want something with a Mesh front and moving alot of Air through the system.
I Have the Lancool II Mesh Performance and 2x 140mm + 1x 120mm in the Front, 2x 140mm in the Top and 2x 120mm under the gpu and of course 1x 120mm in the back.
With a case like that your room wont get cooler (thermodynamics ya know) but you can move much more air through your system.
What CPU and GPU you got ?
why not buy a portable ac? Might help introduce some cold air into the room
my house has central ac but since im on the second floor it gets so hot while the first floor gets cold. I guess a portable ac is a good idea.
Yes you need better cooling but that’s only going to make your room hotter. PC cooling isn’t about reducing the heat per say it’s about moving it more efficiently away from your components. The amount of heat produced will stay the same. If you actually want to lower the heat output try under-volting your components if possible
It's really not, I've seen this at least once before.
AMD should start making the sticker thermally conductive
They should really make the sticker out of something thermally conductive
Where else is the sticker supposed to go?!
on the other side ofc, you need to challenge tech support somehow. this is just too obvious
Holy shit, i couldn't imagine someone being THAT dumb. But man, end users can surprise ya!
household appliances, of course
lmao did the person take the sticker off the processor manual and slap it on their processor??
It was the first time we'd seen it in person, which makes it memorable for us. We should have a Hall Of Oops to showcase these in our shop.
Came into the shop like this, we were all laughing it up. Technically there was no overheating yet, but they had issues building it, so our thoroughness helped avoid a nasty situation for them.
Out of curiosity, which chip was it?
Like a hood ornament.
every time i run HWI info it says my cpu is under 60c and gpu is under 80c with the hotspot sometimes saying 90 but usually its 88 (when under load and im playing marvel rivals)
i have a evga rtx 3080 ftw3 model and dual fan noctua nh-d15 cpu cooler for my i7 11700k. its in a Meshify 2 case (full tower) and i have 8 case fans, 3 top 3 front 1 bottom and the exhaust fan
i don't want to try water cooling because i am just too paranoid that it will leak and cause things to break, im on limited income so replacing it would be rather difficult/impossible if everything were to break at the same time
so right now since its winter ( in canada) i can open my window for 30 minutes - an hour and that will cool my room down very quickly
but i worry that in summer that wont really be an option (i dont pay the air conditioning bill so people wont be happy if i left a window open while theyre trying to cool the rest of the house)
i also cant leave my bedroom door open because i live with family that has a lot of small children and one has a constant habit of leaving mashmallows and popsicles to melt into the furniture which id rather not have in my room
i dont even know if this is a good sub to ask for this kinda help
People misunderstand what a liquid cooler does or what actually affects room heating situations - your PC, if it's using 600w will run at 80c on the CPU for example. You install full water cooling system, and it's now running at 60c! Well guess what, that same heat is now almost entirely IN YOUR ROOM NOW.
That's the issue - the SAME amount of heat is generated whether your PC Is running cooler due to better cooling or if it's running hot - the difference is the amount of heat being transferred away from it. Lower temp = more heat being ejected into your room. Higher temps = more heat being trapped in your components/case (eventually will leak out but slower).
Only way to reduce total heat is by reducing how much power is being used either with lower wattage components from the start or by undervolting the CPU or GPU to pull less power from the wall.
Your PC is a 500W+ space heater when running at full load. You have a few options.
Undervolt or lower settings so that your system uses less power, this will likely just increase the time it takes for the room to heat up as you turned the 500W space heater into a 400W one.
Or get a kiddy gate so you can open your door but keep them from coming inside easily so the air in your room/home circulates as intended.
A box fan or room circulator fan (like 30 bucks) may also be helpful.
You could get a portable AC unit. But that'll use more electricity.
Edit: if you're worried about your cpu/gpu being too hot i wouldn't, temps seem fine for a full load.
I use an 11700kf oc and a 3080 modded and oc. Same 10gb vram EVGA ftw3. Had similar issue. I repasted mine to get better cooling results with thermal grizzly. I also got a copper plate made for the vram to keep it cooler with direct contact and more thermal grizzly instead of pads.
If you are concerned and never done this before, the best option is to reduce its power to alleviate the heat. Turning down games fps and capping well below its max can also help. There are many ways to reduce the heat.
have 8 case fans
real question : how do u set the fan
3 top 3 front 1 bottom and the exhaust fan
this gave me the clue that u only set 1 exhaust but 7 intake , but one advice : hot air goes up, it is better to set your top fan as an exhaust instead of intake
i did this and my temps improved a lot,
my gpu hotspot used to rise over 100+ quickly, now it's below 100 most of the time.
additional solution: try to repaste your GPU as well
hope this helps
My top fans are already outake
It front and bottom is intake bottom top and back are outtake
if it's any consolation, Marvel Rivals is horribly optimized.
Everything is i dont remeber the last time a game was optimized
How to stop your computer from overheating
Key Considerations to Prevent Overheating:
Ensure Proper Ventilation:
Clean Dust and Debris:
Monitor Temperature:
Upgrade Cooling Solutions:
Manage Workload:
Check Thermal Paste:
Adjust Power Settings:
Recommendation: If overheating persists, consider investing in a high-quality cooling system or a more efficient case with better airflow. This can significantly enhance cooling performance and prolong the lifespan of your components.
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