while watching flash streams cpu fan makes noise and heats too much

[Smokin Chevy]

Also, make sure that you are using a good thermal compound.  I use arctic
silver 5 myself.  I have heard that ceramique (sp?) is better but haven't
tried.



On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:33 AM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 1 December 2010 16:23, Tapas Mishra <mightydreams at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I am not sure how do I begin or what logs should I check.
> > I have observed it many many times.
> > When I am watching a streaming video from internet then in some time,I
> > see that the CPU fan of my laptop
> > and upon touching the area near by (which can be keys above the CPU
> > fan) I see extreme amount of heat emitted.
> > Is this normal or I need to check some thing?
>
> If you use top or the System Monitor I expect you will find that the
> CPU is running at a high percentage.  When it works hard it generates
> more heat, it gets hotter and the fan goes faster.  You may of course
> have a problem with the fan or heat sink that makes it run hotter than
> it should but if it has been doing this for a long time and has not
> melted then it is probably ok.
>
> Colin
>
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