Guild Wars 2

So I’ve had this laptop for a few years and the heat hasn’t changed on this thing yet which I’m extremely thankful for. That being said, I would like to play this game but I do need a bit of advice from you people with laptops.

I can play the game on all low settings at pretty good FPS 40-60, but I do like to limit my FPS to 30 to reduce heat. My question is, my CPU heat is around 75-85C, is this normal for a laptop?

This is an Acer Aspire v3-571g if that helps. These are specs from cpu-world: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i7/Intel-Core%20i7-3610QM%20Mobile%20processor.html

Any thoughts? Advice? Any help is really, really appreciated.

I would think it’s normal, depending on ambient and how long you game. Intel specifies max is 105c. http://ark.intel.com/products/64899/Intel-Core-i7-3610QM-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_30-GHz if it tops out and stays near 85c I’d not worry at all.
Maybe get yourself a cooling pad or even re apply thermal paste to the cpu itself.

75-85 is hot but fine, especially for a laptop.

That CPU is going to run at about 3ghz with full on turbo. 78c is what I would consider normal temps for that CPU.

If Heat is a serious issue for you (summer time and all) you can disable turbo by setting the max CPU performance to 90% in your selected power profile. This will make the CPU run at the base clock of 2.5ghz. But you will also lose FPS performance by doing this.

I suggest downloading HWInfo64 and opening the Sensors applet and see if you can force fan IO control (its a brown fan Icon at the bottom of the sensor window) and force your fans to 100% while gaming. As that would bring the CPU/GPU temps down considerably.

If you don’t got one, get a cooling deck with fans to put under your laptop. It raises it for increased airflow and helps with cooling down the unit. It can also have the added benefit of making it more ergonomic to use the keyboard by tilting it towards you. This is obviously more for using it as a desktop replacement (which I started using mine as—the 980M with 8GB GDDR5 VRAM is simply amazing when considering it’s a laptop GPU).

My laptop tends to run around 60°C in mostly all games (i7-4710HQ). But that said, your reported 70-85°C shouldn’t be something to worry all too much about. It’s worth noting that GW2 is very GPU reliant, same as GW was. This has a benefit of it becoming more stable overall though. E.g., my old desktop has a fried GPU, but can still run GW and GW2 just fine, where as every other game will cause it to artifact and bleed textures.

Also, I don’t game in a “hot” room and always make sure it’s at a comfortable level by properly ventilating my home (I tend to leave the front door open to let the air flow around the rooms), the higher the ambient temperature of the room, the hotter your PC will run. It’s also uncomfortable to sit in a sauna and game.