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bad design.
It's hard to keep powerful computer components so close together without heat going up. Not all laptops have good thermal management, quite a few in the midrange and cheap sector totally suck right out of the box.
Question about laptop heat
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Computer Type: PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number: custom built
OS: Win 7 Pro 64-bit 7601
CPU: AMD Phenom 9650 QuadCore, revision DR-B3
Motherboard: ASUS M4A78
Memory: 5 GB yes I run 2x 2GB and 1x 1GB, different brand, spank me.
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT 512 Mb, unknown manufacturer.
Sound Card: Crappy Realtek Integrated Audio
Monitor(s) Displays: Fujitsu Siemens P19-3P
Screen Resolution: 1280 x 1024 x 32 bits @ 60 Hz Oh yeah, 4:3 rocks!
Keyboard: Microsoft, PS/2, white.
Mouse: Optical, logitec.
PSU: whatever, around 450w
Case: Scavenged from old company PC, 10+ years old
Cooling: CPU fan, GPU fan, case fan, nothing fancy
Hard Drives: (1) MAXTOR S TM3320613AS SATA Disk Device (2) STM35004 18AS SATA Disk Device (3) TOSHIBA USB 2.5"-HDD
Internet Speed: effective max speeds: 70-ish kB/s down 30-ish kB/s up
Browser: Firefox with FXChrome to make it look like Google Chrome :P
Antivirus: Avira, free edition.
Other Info: Was discarded by previous owner due to "horrible performance". Was running Win Xp from a IDE drive. Yeah. Was a pain. SATA II drive and Win7 and it zips away! Yay!
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