does it overheat a little when gaming?
509489
It blows a lot of heat out the left hand side. If you use it on a hard surface, shouldn't be a problem as long as the fan is working. The extra heat seems to come from cranking up the graphics, not necessarily from gaming.
509490
I won't say it overheats. The heat that you feel on this model unit is on a normal temperature 46 ▻ 50 degrees Celsius or less not greater.
509491
It get hot but as long as it resting on something so that it gets ventilation it runs fine. So long as it is plugged in the laptop is capable of running intensive software such as DOLPHIN which runs Game Cube and WII games.
802644
I run it consecutively 4-5 times with only a slight pause inbetween, and I've never had it overheat. I've owned it for over 2 years now and it still runs fine.
1797346
No. I have not had any issue with the device overheating and I run with it in 100+ degree temps.
1957447
I'm using one for my A8 HD media stereaming and game playing. I don't have temperature readings for you but can tell you my computer has never overheated. My case never gets hot either as long as there is proper airflow.
1720303
actually one of the things i love about this laptop i the cooling feature. When gaming, it gets, warm. When just using it to go on the web, it spits out cold air. like if i left it on right now, it would be some good air conditioning.
549380
Mel, good question. The case/computer does get hot but I have not experience any overheating. Because I have the same concern, just recently I started removing the upper back cover to allow air to flow around my laptop when in use for a long period of time. You might consider this an annoyance but I love the design of the case and how it protect my laptop.
926710
Sorry I do not use it for gaming, but have no complaints in using it for other purposes. It is working great.
1100071
It does heat up when playing games for hours. Other than that everything is great. I don't use the touch-pad, but it works well enough. I really like the keyboard and look of the computer.
1648020
When playing a heavy game, the laptop can get hot however there is a "super fan" button that you can press to increase the RPM for the fans that is pretty noisy but gets the job done. I've never had an issue with the laptop overheating. The sceen quality is really great, colors are vibrant, even games which are older look really great with this laptop.
223772
In terms of the PCB and the physical chip itself and its performance potential? No. I don't think so. However the only obvious difference I see is in the heat sync/fans and after owning mine for almost a year now I can say I've never had problems with mine overheating.
781366
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.
923615
It won't hurt it but just know that it might throttle a little when under stress, and the game may drop in frame rate, I use MSI afterburner and a custom fan curve that is in no way silent but very cool
85894
I had a constant problem with this computer overheating, even tried a HUGE cooler on the cpu, didn't help much. I have this cooler on two of my computers and I've had no problem with overheating whatsoever. I play all my games, FPS, Racers, etc., at highest settings and no problems. Wouldn't build a new computer without one.
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.
598320
The Exhaust vent is in a very good spot on this computer in my opinion. It would be very hard to plug this vent accidentally. The warm air exits in the middle under the monitor towards the screen side. I have done a lot of gaming and so far have not noticed any excessive heat.
1327626
I have not had any overheating issues. Sometimes the thunderbolt cable gets warm, though.
354615
From what I can tell, it comes with only one fan. I just finished a 2 hour gaming session at max settings (fan overdrive off) and its only a little warm under the left side. I can assume that if I had the overdrive off, it may not be warm at all. I have had this laptop for about a month now and having nothing but good things to say....besides windows 8 of course.