Recent content by Darren H

It can get quite hot during hi performance gaming, but nothing that has ever caused problems in the past. I can feel the keyboard on the left hand side getting warm, which if anything is a good thing on a cold day. Rimworld itself is a 2D game, so i cant imagine it would have heated up at all...

Ive had my laptop for about 2yrs now, with problems popping up all over the place, but nothing that has really put me on edge like this. I was sitting playing rimworld... when smoke started shooting out of the right speaker vent. The volume did quit a few moments prior to this and i was in the...

Not the best news i was hoping for, but i guess the signs were pointing to it. Luckily, its not an expensive piece to replace, and an easy job too. Hoping to buy another in the coming days, assuming i have the pennies to do so, and the repair shop even sells them, and will update if it fixes...

Er, i suppose i should point out straight off that i'm not entirely sure this is hard drive related, however, it does seem the likely culprit. p.s sorry for the big wall of text! I have been having problems for a good time now with performance i suppose i could say with my laptop. I did have...