Does this run hot? Especially when gaming?
200717
The fans get pretty loud when gaming. They must be doing their job because I have not had an overheat problem yet. I wear head phones most of the time so the fan noise is no problem. I usually play with every thing maxed out as much as possible with no problems yet. The only thing I would recommend is get an MSI with a larger SSD than 128 Gig, it fills up very fast with todays games and it would be worth it. That is the only thing I wish I had done, other than that this thing is awesome.
200718
It does run hot when gaming for a long period of time. Although, if you have a cooling mat, you can play for a lot of time without worrying. When I do gaming, I install it on one of these mats. The GT72 have 2 fans now, while the GT70 only has one and a big one. Plus, you should always turn on "high ventilation" option while heavy gaming!
200719
It does not run hot at all, but I don't use my laptop for gaming. I use it for high end programs that are very graphics intensive. It actually feels cold. The cooling system is amazing.
200720
Yeah it runs pretty hot, I picked up a laptop cooling pad for mine and seems to do pretty well after that.
200721
Yes very hot but there is a strong fan. The fan takes lots of energy so it need to be plugged in
200722
It's has a fan turbo mode. And I also habe a small USB fan that I sit behind it as an exhaust. But no troubles with heat
1264782
Its a pretty solid laptop, and some games you're not gonna run at full resolution like Crysis, BF3, and other infamous intensive games but they still run well. I haven 't had heat issues and once I got the Video drivers sorted out the card overclocks really well as well (which most people don't recommend but my card is overclocked significantly and stays around 70c) For the games you've mentioned though it's plenty. The overall package is pretty awesome and as a pc gamer I'm pretty happy, but at the end of the day its still a laptop.
946260
I can't speak specifically from experience with your computer, but mine was shutting down from overheating, and burned to the touch, and now runs cool.
75773
It runs WoW and other mmos all on high settings with no lag at all. I seriously love this computer. Just make sure to get a better power supply the one that comes with it is kind of weak. Oh and more fans.
1482450
It runs remarkably well: if it means anything, I can run Skyrim on 'medium-high' settings with little to no overheating.
320629
For a non-gaming laptop, it actually games pretty well. I've played Civ5 and Guild Wars 2 on mine and it does fine. It gets a bit hot on the underside when you have been at it for a while but overall, pretty good laptop.
109862
There is barely any noise from this laptop and I love that. It does get warm though but only as warm as expected, not hot, and only during gaming. It stays at roughly room temp during desktop use.
954787
Yes it comes with a heatsink and cooling fan attached. We are gamers and we have had no issues with overheating with the stock (with that said we have not Over Clocked our machines). Games it plays: Skyrim (with high graphics), Dirt 3, Starforge, Lost Planet 3, Half Life 2 seriees, etc.
20605
it's a beast of a computer. easily runs the newest games without a hitch. build quality is really really good. the only problems are that if you do play the latests with high/ultra gra[hic quiality... it gets hot. very hot. and the fan tends to get noisy. personally, would buy it again.
105330
Havent checked temps while gaming, but according to my bios it idles at around 45 degrees Celsius
1743987
its amazing. I don't have a water cooling system and it rarely gets warm. (I keep it on lowest fan setting for noise and game pretty hard on highest settings, when it rarely does I turn the fans up and its cool again within a minute)
701698
The laptop gets very warm if left unregulated. I actually fried a mobo while playing bf4 and it got up to 97C. Now that i got the mobo replaced i downlowded nvidia inspector and you can limit the temps in that application. Since I lowered the maximum temp to 85 degrees it has been working with out skipping a beat and I don't see a noticable performance hit while gaming either.Hope this helps
683739
I game with it and it does get hot, not hot enough to shut down as some speculate but enough to lag your game. This problem is easily solved with an external cooling solution.
781364
its decent for it. its got integrated graphics which kinda sucks, but itll play things like skyrim on low settings, if you want to use that as a benchmark. i havent noticed any overheating problem. i personally use it for gaming as im a twitch streamer and this is my main rig atm.i havent really tried newer games on it as much. it has slowdown with dolphin (gamecube/wii emulator) but runs things like Skullgirls no problem.
723823
The cooling on this card is sub-par. Runs at around 68c-81c It runs fairly hot for its performance. Still a good bang for your buck.
2230526
well i have the 700 watt one and its not under super high load when gaming but yes mine does just fine -)
1648017
Well i've had this for about a month now yea it does get a bit hot but with the built in feature to increase the fan's vent after 2-3mins of that its quite fine though it could be me cause i tend to game heavy while it in my lap a lot on the table and whatsnot never really notice. Now the screen i've seen no issue so far pretty great purchase overall