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Overheating Laptop and New Laptop advice?
Hey, just a quick thread about my current laptops cooling problems because it constantly rises to 90C Degrees, when doing the simplest of tasks such as web browsing. I have a cooling stand for it, and it hardly ever is moved because I know how hot it gets - its more like a desktop now.
I've heard it is because of a bad heat sink design in the DV6 Series, but was wondering whether replacing the current thermal compound with something such as Arctic Silver would help at all?
Also, I am buying a new laptop in the next few months, but I cannot decide on the best laptop to buy. I have been interested in a Dell XPS 15, which has the i3-2310m processor and the Nvidia 525M GPU. I don't playing any FPS games, but do play some browser games (or did play, but I would rather have the option there). Would this be adequate for games like RuneScape and such?
I'm not too fussed about the lack of turbo boost, since the clock rate on my current CPU is locked but performs fast enough, I am looking more for a cool system with a decent GPU which is somewhat power efficient (Hopefully 3 hours+ battery).
Any advice? I'm open to hearing about other laptops within my price range that you might recommend - Up to £550.
Thanks, Will.