Hi guys,
I recently bought a second hand Alienware 17 r3 that I believe was refurbished. It came from an online second hand retailer and initially the system seemed in mine condition. The specs are:
I7 6820hk
980m with 4gb ram
Windows 10
16 gigs of ram
The odd thing about this laptop is they installed a new version of windows ten but didn't add any of the alienware software - it does however have the bootscreen.
It has been performing fine and I have been playing the witcher 3, i did however download msi afterburner last week to monitor framerates and temperatures and have noticed that my GPU max temperature has been slowly creeping up from 69 to now 73 over the past week. Today I turned on the temperature gauge for the CPU and had a shock. It was hitting 92 degrees in game!!!
The fans were working but I feel like they may not be working as hard as they were a few weeks ago? Though I can't be sure.. Could the lack of alienware software be causing problems?
Any one have any ideas why this could be happening?
Have I likely caused long term damage to the CPU? although it seems to be working fine it could have been overheating without me realising over the past few weeks...
Any thoughts?
Cheers
I recently bought a second hand Alienware 17 r3 that I believe was refurbished. It came from an online second hand retailer and initially the system seemed in mine condition. The specs are:
I7 6820hk
980m with 4gb ram
Windows 10
16 gigs of ram
The odd thing about this laptop is they installed a new version of windows ten but didn't add any of the alienware software - it does however have the bootscreen.
It has been performing fine and I have been playing the witcher 3, i did however download msi afterburner last week to monitor framerates and temperatures and have noticed that my GPU max temperature has been slowly creeping up from 69 to now 73 over the past week. Today I turned on the temperature gauge for the CPU and had a shock. It was hitting 92 degrees in game!!!
The fans were working but I feel like they may not be working as hard as they were a few weeks ago? Though I can't be sure.. Could the lack of alienware software be causing problems?
Any one have any ideas why this could be happening?
Have I likely caused long term damage to the CPU? although it seems to be working fine it could have been overheating without me realising over the past few weeks...
Any thoughts?
Cheers
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