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I have this problem for quite a long time I have send it to service twice opend it myslef and still no progres my cpu keeps overheating witch results in fps drops while gaming.I am forced to play L on low and still get fps drops.The laptop has 4 gb or ram 1 gb on the gpu and an intel pentuim b960 2.20 duo.I replaced the termal paste and cleaned the cpu fan and all I even have a extra cooler under my laptop and I sitll keep overheting. My cpu goes to 83 C and gpu to 78C while playing.Temperatures on idle are around 50 both on gpu and cpu.
 
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Unfortunately what the others say is true. Your system isn't meant to play games. Old games from 5+ years ago, it might do okay with these on low settings. Modern games are going to be a real struggle.

If you think reducing your CPU heat will help, you can, but it very well may not help at all.

To lower CPU heat, you need to lower the clock speed of it. This makes it slower, but also results in less heat. I do this to avoid my GPU from throttling in my laptop sometimes. To do this, go to:
"Power Options"
"Change Plan Settings"
"Change advanced power settings"

Then scroll down and find "Processor Power Managment"

Limit CPU usage to something less than 100%. My system gets the best FPS at 85% CPU usage, because at that point it...
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[strike]Those are acceptable (but not great) temperatures for a laptop. Your CPU is good to around 100 before it will start to throttle, not sure about the GPU but it should be roughly the same. Your laptop is not overheating.[/strike]

Nevermind, I was thinking of the i series which are good until 100. The Pentiums are only good to 85. It's likely a poorly designed laptop. I'm sure when you cleaned the fan that you also cleaned all the junk that tends to accumulate in the metal fins on the heatsink. High quality thermal paste may lower the temperatures a degree or two.
 
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This was a basic laptop designed for email and basic web surfing. It simply is not up to playing games, and this is why it is overheating. It cannot handle the heat, and dissipate it effectively.

At those temps, the cpu/gpu will overheat and be in the zone for damage.

BTW, which gpu are we talking about?
 
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Laptop coolers oft cause more heat (plugged into USB port ?) then they dissipate.

1. Open your laptop and blow out all the cat hair, cookie crumbs, bugs, spiderwebs, dust, etc. from the heatsinks, nooks and crannies. Cleaning just the fan us ineffective if the channels its blowing air thru are clogged. I use this

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best to hold fingers on fans when using this....so they don't over spin to gazillion rpm

2. Use something to lift the back of your lappie off the surface its sitting on. I use these cause they are handy in my office

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Getting some space between the air inlets is a boon, the little laptop feet don't provide enough opening for decent air flow. On a side note....lifting the desktop up a few inches and removing top fan grille dropped my Delta T by a third from 12.4 to 8.4C

I have an water cooled SLI desktop and oft use my lappie to play games simply cuz I can sit in more comfortable chairs when doing so :) I use use a snack table w/ that engineer's scale under the back and tilt the snack table onto my lap. I get about 8-10C cooler with the scale.
 
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Unfortunately what the others say is true. Your system isn't meant to play games. Old games from 5+ years ago, it might do okay with these on low settings. Modern games are going to be a real struggle.

If you think reducing your CPU heat will help, you can, but it very well may not help at all.

To lower CPU heat, you need to lower the clock speed of it. This makes it slower, but also results in less heat. I do this to avoid my GPU from throttling in my laptop sometimes. To do this, go to:
"Power Options"
"Change Plan Settings"
"Change advanced power settings"

Then scroll down and find "Processor Power Managment"

Limit CPU usage to something less than 100%. My system gets the best FPS at 85% CPU usage, because at that point it generates less heat, and the GPU can perform faster. Any lower than that however, and the CPU gets too slow and performance starts to drop from that. You can try to reduce heat in your system using this method, but likely your laptop simply doesn't have fast enough hardware to play games.
 
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That is very true. Honestly, given it is a Pentium I doubt it will work anyways. I just listed it cause I know it is a guaranteed way to reduce temps, and if it isn't an iGPU, it will help avoid it from throttling at least until the CPU is a bottleneck. I figure he already knows his system is really outdated and limited though, so might as well give him a possible solution to play with.
 
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First i would like to thank you all for the quick reponse.But there is one thing i dont understand here why was i able to play games fine on higher settings before my cpu fan broke.As for the Gpu i have an AMD Radeon HD 7500/7600Series.I think that when i send it to service they put me a fan thats not for my model since when i opened it it was not attached to the mother board by any screws and the heatsink(that metal on the end were the air blows out)was not fuly covered by the cpu fan.I think that the heat gets transfered well but cant get rid of it at the end to the cooling proces . I am using a usb pluged cooler wich helps me a litel.What do you people think should i buy a new cpu fan and hope it gets the heat off .For the games i dont play anyting hard just some LOL and Terra which i was able to run fine until my cpu fan broke.
 
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You need a CPU fan that fits better to have any chance of this working. Laptop parts can be hard to come by like this. I would contact the ones that serviced it, and tell them the fan they installed was not for your laptop, and they have left you with thermal issues.
 
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Again, laptop coolers are a gimmick .... unless the unit's fan lines up perfectly with the laptops, it does nothing but cool the bottom surface of the laptop and the bottom will run perfectly cool if you lift up the back end. Heat rises.... so the heat inside the laptop will convect up, not down to where the coolers fans are hitting. I used an infrared thermometer to test and with the the laptop cooler I had, surface temps with the laptop cooler plugged in and not plugged in were the same.

And if they draw too much power, can fry your lappie.... been there, done that. If you do use one, NEVER plug them into your lappie w/o an independent power source

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817804002

Your shop prolly took an old desktop CPU fan and taped it in.... do a web search on your model number and "parts", you should be able to get a fan pretty easily. Right now my CPU is at 45C with just the ruler under the back end, fans are off, and this is a hi end laptop that I use for CAD and Gaming.
 
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