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Why does my PC sound like a jet engine? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by Pharmacokinetics to c/sourcememes

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (3 children)

My laptop crashed the other day because minecraft made the GPU hit the thermal limit and shut down.

If I put any game on, it doesn't matter what game at this point, the entire room gets a good 4-6 degrees warmer.

It's coming up on 8 years old soon.

I can no longer even play HL2 on max settings. And that thing runs like butter on every machine I've ever installed it on. Heck I had it playing better than this on a 2006-8ish sony Vaio desktop.

My point is, attempting to load this would immediately turn my computer inside out on a subatomic scale, spontaneously (and against all current physics knowledge) turning into antimatter, destroying a good chunk of the state as an explosion the force of Tsar Bomba rocks the continent.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Reapply the thermal paste?

[–] agent_flounder 11 points 8 months ago

Definitely reapply thermal paste.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

And give er a good dusting out

[–] NRay7882 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If Minecraft & HL2 were previously running fine you may need to open up the laptop and blow out some of the fans & heatsinks. It probably won't prevent the temp rising but it should help with the performance issues you've been having.

Buying a laptop cooler is also an option if you're not looking to replace the laptop anytime soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

The case comes off super easy, so I clean the dust off once a week (dog hair gets everywhere so o have to stay on top of it) and I've even replaced the thermal paste.

It sits on a forced air cooling pad, on top of a hard surface for maximum airflow to keep it as cool as possible.

It's getting replaced this year when I save up enough, not sure what to get yet but literally anything above a chromebook will be an improvement. I have my eyes on some newer games that I want to run smoothly if not at high settings so we'll see when I can afford it.

For now though.... I just point a giant fan at the laptop and play in 30 minute bursts to keep away from the temperature limit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

I have issues with (modded)minecraft using all ram and vram in my pc, that is like almost 40gb of memory just for minecraft