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Where does most of the laptop heat come from?

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Mar 15, 20261774 views

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Possible Duplicate: What makes a laptop overheat? I have an Asus n61jq laptop that runs very hot even when idle. The processor is an i7 720QM while the graphics card is an Mobility Radeon 5730. Does most of the heat come from the CPU or the graphics card (or both)? When idle, I noticed that the CPU…

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In a desktop system with a high-performance graphics card, I would say both (although still more from the processor), but for your laptop, no doubt it is the processor.

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