Recent content by _Aniki_

Yes, I know, but even then, it was concerning that it was idle at 90 C :(

Room temperatures around this time are a bit around 40-45 C. And believe me, a desktop would always be my priority. If only I didn't have to live away from home I would have gotten myself a desktop. It would've been cheaper, and way better.

Thank you, I'll take that into consideration.

Alright, I'll check it out. And yes, I uninstalled it as soon as I could. I only had it since it came with my laptop. It resulted in freeing up 1gb of ram, it's at 51% ram utilization now.

Yea, I think that's the only solution left to me too. I know that the fans aren't clogged, just a little bit of dust I couldn't get to using just a cloth. Are there any brands of thermal paste you'd recommend? I've never applied any before, but I've been looking around, and it seems easy enough...

The laptop is around 7-8 months old and yes, I did dust the vents.

Sorry, I just wanted to mention that I did infact run a virus scan. I have checked the resources in task manager, and the only time it hogged resources was when I ran the scan. And other than that, there's only the usual background windows services. But none of them account for the 5gb of ram...

Hello. This is my first post here, and I'm at a complete loss for what to do. I have a gaming laptop, an HP OMEN 15 to be exact. It has a Ryzen 5 4600H cpu, a GTX 1660ti 4gb graphics card and an 8gb RAM. I had heating issues before, but they were minor, and could be accounted for by the weather...