So after roughly 7 months spending my time with the Aspire 4520, I started to get the usual trademark of Acer laptops; overheating. Yeah, it's one of those "so hot you can cook an egg on the laptop" hot. It started after 5 months of use, so it's either the hardware or the tweaking I imposed on the machine, and the cooler is certainly working its arse off 24/7. By then I tried to undervolt it and only managed to reduce the temperature from 70'C to 55-57'C minimum with RightMark CPU Clock Utility.
Then weeks later the overheating started to get to me, with the laptop BBQing my CDs alive. 100% of my game installation failed since the CDs are BBQed and expanded out of proportion due to the heat (to the point it misshapen and scratched the innards of the laptop). I considered using this sure-100%-working method to cool off the laptop, but I'm going to reserve it as a last option:
So I turned to SpeedFan that I stumbled upon coincidentally one fateful day. It's a software that allows the user to manipulate and configure the fan of the system and this should fix my machine that is in the heat, so I thought. Turns out the software doesn't apply to this Acer 4520, and I can't configure anything since certain interface is disabled as seen in the screenshot below:
So I turned to SpeedFan that I stumbled upon coincidentally one fateful day. It's a software that allows the user to manipulate and configure the fan of the system and this should fix my machine that is in the heat, so I thought. Turns out the software doesn't apply to this Acer 4520, and I can't configure anything since certain interface is disabled as seen in the screenshot below:
Um yeah, take note of the core temperature: 72'C ftw XDDamn it. I just uninstalled SpeedFan, and embarked on a never ending quest around Google and try to find something to cool of this hot 4520. The hunt continues!
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alamak...my wife laptop also can bbq like yours.
put a fan behind it, still overheat while playing dota.
and normal sub RM20 notebook fan don't work on this thing.
there's another solution besides the kipas n cooler bro;
clean the heatsink.
after a while the kipas in the heatsink accumulates a lot of habuk (like normal standing fan) that it reduces the cooling performance.
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