thermal management

Windows almost abuses the fan on my laptop. Toshiba Satellite C875-S7303. Whenever I try to run Borderlands 2, while loading the game the laptop overheated. Windows 8 (which came with the laptop) did the same thing, then I wiped it and put Ubuntu 13.04 on it and it never overheated. Is there a...

Hi My liquid cooling system is leaking. I got the message when a blue screen opened up and said that there was a problems and my computer was shutting down. When I booted backup I was forced into setup where I got another message saying that my CPU had exceeded 90C and had shut down to...

Electronics and certainly PCs do not like heat. It is important that these devices stay cool @ all times and throughout their lifetime. That said, here is one of those "Best Practice" things that I suggest all too often does not even occur to people and that they do not think about or do on...

Electronics and certainly PCs do not like heat. It is important that these devices stay cool @ all times and throughout their lifetime. That said, here is one of those "Best Practice" things that I suggest all too often does not even occur to people and that they do not think about or do on...

I just got around to installing Speedfan on my IBM ThinkCentre M52 and was surprised at how hot it is running (see screenshot)Both the processor and internal hard drives are much higher than I'm accustomed to. I know that the hard drive is too hot, but with the design of the case, I can't think...

Unless I am playing games from XP or older my GPU runs at 80-99% usage. When I am on my desktop the GPU idles at 0% and depending on which Graphics card I have in either 30-35 degrees Celsius or 40-50 degrees Celsius. When I am in-game though on any game but the old XP ones no matter which...

My computer tends to crash, and freeze after being on for more than an hour a day. I ran Memory, Tests, Checked Wires, and Ran A Hard drive check and a sector and everything turned out normal. Also all of my drivers are up to date as well as my BIOS. -MY Q6600 is running on Stock settings...

Can I run it turbo mode all the time, if I am not using the battery? Or can I increase the low gig. mode from 1197 gig. to say 1500 gig. ? I so seldom use the battery, so I can imagine that being a problem. Also, I read something about leaving the battery out, if I use it outside on a warm...

Hello everyone! I'm new here. Sry for my english, but I'm only an average austrian boy! For some time now, I've big troubles with BSoDs. It began in the end of November. From that on, they appeared from time to time - around one time a day. With only one exception, they all were 0x124. (I'm...

I am extremely tired from posting this. My laptop specs are: Dell XPS L502x Intel I7 Intel HD Graphics Family Nividia Geforce GT 540m Realtek High Defintion Audio Okay, so whenever I game, eventually and randomly, my game will freeze and loop the last sound. I'm not even kidding, it loops the...

Hi, I don't get on much these days but at age 79 I am still computing among many other things and I wanted to tell you that | have just updated to Ivybridge. and installed the Corsair H80 liquids cooling. Now I don't mention this to boast but to say how great the Corsair H80 is I am now getting...

Hi, i have a problem with getting consistant bsod´sLink RemovedLink RemovedLink Removed i added a attached a rar file with my dmp files. my computer specs are as following p67a gd55 i5 2500k 3.3ghz zotac 470 gf card ocz 500w modstream pro ssd 120 gb intel 320 series I have overclocked my...

Computer restarts usually during game play. recently replaced video card, memory and cpu fan. cleaned well no dust bunnies inside.. here is error log and some details of my computer:. It has restarted playing Call of Duty, Magicka, League of Legends, or Watching a movie. When It did it more...

Hi i have lately been having a few blue screens such as Memory_management System_Service_Exception System_Thread_Exception_Not_Handled_M Kmode_exception_not_handled also at the begginning of the year i was getting Driver_irql_not less or equal and bad_pool_header. My systems Specs are...

Okay so my computer stays on for about 4-6 hours and always blue screens sometime between that period no matter what I do. I'm able to play games on it fine and they don't cause it to crash. Time is what seems to make it crash. I have two fans in my case and three if you include fan on...

I'm running Windows 7 64 bit... it is not OEM. I installed it fresh over a clean hard drive a few months ago. The laptop is a Gateway P-7811fx. It's about 3 years old and it a gaming laptop with a dedicated GPU. Since the issues began I have run extensive MemTests, DriveSweeper, and...

so i recently upgraded to windows 7 64 bit from windows Vista on my laptop. This laptop is mainly used for gaming so i was a bit surprised when i was playing a game and my computer overheated and turned off for the first time in a year of having the laptop. I checked and even games like "lord of...

Huge changes in software and microchips needed A new report from the US National Research Council has warned that technology growth will grind to a halt unless a new generation of hardware and software is developed. The catchy-titled “The Future of Computing Performance: Game over or next...

well,just built my computer a few months ago. i7 860 cpu msi p55 gd80 motherboard g.skill eco series ram 2x2gb sticks corsair 850hx power supply thermalright silver arrow heatsink asus 4850 graphics card well, ive tried formatting multiple times, different driver versions...

I just recently built me a new desktop and for the first couple of days upon installing win7 64bit, it was fine. Did a 15hr system test and all went fine. Had it running for a good 4-8 hours a day. But then 2 days ago I've been getting random shutdowns out of nowhere. Shutdowns can occur right...