Asus overheats?

My dorm neighbours have a v6va and a m6va, I think the m6va is from taiwan or some place in asia and it has a x700. When we play wc3 both of theirs will sometimes overheat. My R4000 never has that happen. I was wondering does other systems with the x700 overheat also or is it just these particular Asus.

 

I havn't heard of any problems of it overheating before. Perhaps they should slightly under clock there CPU, reducing the temperature by several degrees.

 

Ya, its not often but it usually happens after over 50mins of continous play. Its annoying cuz we play online together and they would drop on me one after another

 

Haven't heard of such a problem with many Asus systems...although it's understandable on a V6Va - look at how thin that thing is! It's like the Moto RAZR of the notebook world... lol (at least in North America)

However, a lot of notebooks do overheat after such strenuous activity...that's why cooling pads were invented

 

AuroraS is correct.

If you play hours of WC3 then it WILL overheat.

If they have their videocards overclocked it may overheat quicker.

My baby is overclocked and she runs fine without overheating for hours.

What do you mean by overheating anyways? Gets warm, hot or shuts down and freezes?

Cheers,
Mike

 

... overheat and heat up are two different things....... overheating means it got so hot the system crashed and had to be turned off...... heating up is just a factor of performance and then "fan noise" comes into play when a certain RPM is set for a certain temp threshold....

When you look at something like the V6va (I love the comparison to the Moto Razr becasue it's very appropriate).... but you've got the thinnest and lightest 15" notebook... but also basically the most powerful 15" notebook at the same time. You compare that to your computer which is much larger and doesn't have near the graphics performance.... obviously there will be a difference.... but M6 and V6 are great machines.

 

Should this be happening at all though? My w3v recently overheated and the motherboard/graphics was fried and had to be replaced. All of this was from moderate playing of battlefield vietnam which is a game that is over a year old. I know that the w3v is incredibly small and light for its power but should it just fry like it did? As expensive as these machines are, you would expect them to do what people buy them to do which is play games.

 

Ray---- acutally considering how impossible that is..... there are only a few reason that could have ever happened.

1. the fan died - if that happened the cpu would have started to overheat and all these mobos have cpu overheating protection and would shut down before the cpu reached anywhere near it's failure point........ that would have saved the gpu as well.

2. the gpu was overclocked... and in that case it's the problem of the operator

3. the system was on a pillow or something else that blocked airflow and heat..........

.... It's virtually impossible to "burn up" the gpu without one of those 3 situtions and #1 makes it impossible to actually burn up anything.... When Asus replaced the mobo, did they tell you exactly what happened? Or did they not replace it because they felt it was from overclocking or something like that?

... just curious, I've absolutely never seen something like this.

 

The fan still works fine and the gpu was not overclocked. However, my desk is a mess with tons of papers and lots of dust due to a lack of vaccumming so some vents may have been blocked for short periods of time. Asus didn't tell me anything but my reseller agearnotebooks said I fried my graphics card by playing games too much.

 

That's like saying you'll go blind if you play ... well, you know.

Since Asus covers the warranty (strictly) on the ensemble notebooks.... agear may have just given you a story to pass the time with. You do need to keep your vents clear and it's important to preface with an issue like this because it's highly unlikely and "playing games too hard" is the biggest BS thing I've ever heard.

... you can't play a game harder than the gpu will play it.... and BF2 isn't all that "extreme" anyway.... you may have damaged the gpu - somehow - but it wasn't because of your gaming... You could actually give Asus your serial number and they'll pull up exactly what the problem was and what they fixed.

 

It wasnt even battlefield 2, it was battlefield vietnam which is much older and less graphics intensive. I was also told by my reseller that this is the 2nd case he's had and that if I continue playing games I will fry my graphics card again. I guess only time will tell if that is true =).

 

That's a lie and a half and a BS excuse too.... Call Asus and tell them the same thing, they'll tell you exactly what I did. The card is for playing games and you're not going to "fry it" if you play them. Whoever told you that shouldn't be aloud to give advice to anyone.

 

True... no notebook should overheat, but some do get quite hot and in some conditions (since the world is quite a versatile place). However, ideally, no notebook should ever reach the "overheating" level unless there is a hardware malfunction because the fan should be be capable of cooling the system.