can over heating affect my laptops performance?

Question

probably not that relevant but its a sony vaio if that makes any difference. what can i do to resolve this without one of those cumbersome cooling pads?

Answer 1

Overheating will not affect the performance of your laptop, in the short run. What overheating will do, if it has this built in, is turn of your computer if your CPU, or any supplied GPU becomes to hot and may not let your turn it back on untill it has cooled down enough. Over heating or high heat will: reduce stability, cause reduction in system performance (Over time due to electromigration), cause CPU, GPU and other devices to fail and affect the integrity of system data. overheating will also result in the performance and efficancy of your battery, and your system fan will be on more often resulting in slightly less operating time. even more so if you install a "cumbersome cooling pad" that runs directly of the laptops battery, say through the USB port,i could go on and on about the damages of heat, but heat is an computers worst enemy. I say get one that will 1) run off a wall outlet 2) has its own portable powersource, unless you arnt worid about batterlife, getting one that runs off the USB interface will reduce its cumpersomeness, and make it more portable without being near a walloutlet.

Answer 2

Yes, overheating can affect the performance of your laptop. Some computers (i.e. those with Core Duos or Core 2 Duos) may reduce the processor speed in order to create less heat. If the laptop gets too hot, it will most likely shut off to prevent permanent damage to the system's hardware.

Changing the energy preferences for the laptop will help some, as will a cooling pad. Make sure that you don't block the cooling vents on the bottom of the laptop when you are using it.

Answer 3

Overheating can absolutely affect performance. High temperature can corrupt data going thru the CPU and can crash your system. This is why every system has operating temperature ranges and will shut down when violated. You can monitor your cpu temp thru the BIOS setup. Check to make sure your fan turns on when it gets hot. Use your laptop on a hard flat surface, not your your lap or your bed or a soft surface because that will block the fan/heat vents on the bottom of the laptop. You can give it more breathing room by propping the back end up a little by laying it on a pencil or chopstick along the back edge.

Answer 4

Lower the power consumption of the laptop by adjusting your power properties to max battery life and use canned air to blow the dust out of the cooking vents. Those two should help keep your system cooler.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Apple Computer Inc. is recalling 1.8 million Sony Corp. batteries used in its Macintosh notebooks, a week after Dell Inc. instituted a similar recall. The moves may cost more than $250 million, Sony said.

The batteries were used in iBook and PowerBook computers sold between October 2003 and August 2006, Cupertino, California- based Apple said. Sony doesn't anticipate any further recalls, the company said in a statement today.

``The batteries pose a fire hazard, and we want consumers to take this recall seriously,'' said Scott Wolfson, a spokesman for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, based in Bethesda, Maryland. ``We want them to take the batteries out of the laptops immediately.''

Problems with Sony batteries led Dell, the world's largest personal-computer maker, to initiate the biggest recall in consumer-electronics history. The decision by Apple is the second-largest recall ever after Dell and brings the number of affected notebooks to almost 6 million. Apple discovered nine incidents of batteries overheating, with two causing minor burns to Mac users.

Battery replacements for Dell and Apple notebooks will cost Sony 20 billion yen to 30 billion yen ($170 million to $257 million), the Tokyo-based company said in a statement. Apple doesn't expect the recall to have a ``material financial effect,'' company spokesman Steve Dowling said in an interview.

`Sony Responsible'

The recall doesn't affect notebooks with Intel Corp. chips that were released this year, Dowling said.

For Apple, ``it's an inconvenience but financially it's a non-event because Sony is responsible,'' Gene Munster, an analyst with Piper Jaffray Cos. based in Minneapolis. ``The key is that it doesn't impact Apple's Intel notebooks.''

Shipments of Macs are at their highest level in five years, fueled by demand for faster laptop models powered by Intel chips. Apple shipped more than 5.56 million notebooks during the time period covered by the recall. The company has sold more than 1 million machines in each of the past seven quarters.

Notebook shipments at Apple rose 61 percent in the quarter ended July 1 and accounted for 62 percent of Mac revenue.

Shares of Apple, also the maker of the iPod music player, rose 50 cents to $67.81 at 4 p.m. New York time in Nasdaq Stock Market composite trading. They have fallen 5.7 percent this year. Sony American depositary receipts fell $1.16, or 2.6 percent, to $43.26 in New York Stock Exchange trading.

Affected Computers

The safety commission said the recall affects 1.1 million Mac notebooks sold in the U.S. and 700,000 sold overseas. The machines were purchased at Apple's stores, through the company's Web site and at authorized resellers.

Affected notebooks were sold for $900 to $2,300, and some batteries were sold separately for about $130.

The units were assembled in Japan, Taiwan and China and contain Sony's lithium-ion batteries. Sony is the world's second- largest maker of consumer electronics behind Matsushita Electric Industrial Co.

The commission announced on Aug. 17 it was reviewing notebook batteries made by Sony three days after Round Rock, Texas-based Dell recalled 4.1 million batteries on concern that some may burst into flames. The batteries were made in Japan and assembled in China by Sony workers.

Dell told the safety commission that it learned of six cases since December in the U.S. of notebooks overheating or bursting into flames because of a problem in the fuel cells of the widely used lithium-ion batteries. No injuries were reported, Dell said.

Hewlett-Packard Co., the world's second-largest PC maker, and Gateway Inc., the third-largest PC maker in the U.S., have said their systems are not at risk.

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Answer 7

theres really nothing you can do without getting a cooling pad.but the hotter it is the slower it starts to run.