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Originally Posted by Rathji
Is there an equal amount of airflow coming from each fan? If so, then there is likely not much wrong with the situation, since there are likely internal parts (like a video card) that is generating more heat in one location.
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The concern is kind of two fold in that regard:
- There are four fans: two on the back, on either side of the plug-in (centre-back), and two on the bottom. I have no ability to gauge the airflow patterns out the bottom, but one of the two on back has a higher airflow and runs hotter. I've blown the air out of all four fans before, and it helps marginally.
- The more concerning of the two is the heating distribution before and after an event. In a moment of not looking where I was going, I managed to trip over a cord while carrying the laptop and drop it on a wooden floor (I would hazard a guess that the impact would have been from about 3 feet up). Before the incident, the heating was much more distributed, in particular on the bottom of of the laptop - all four fans felt as if they had gotten use and no particular area had been cool. At this time, I think the mean of the core temperatures was hovering around 55-60 degrees Celsius. As I tested it this morning under similar conditions (same game, same amount of outside support for air circulations, it ran around 70 C. In addition, compared to before, the heat pattern on the bottom is much less uniform, with the vents leading to the back fans being much (10 C I'm guessing) hotter than the vents leading to the bottom, a stark contrast to the pretty uniform distribution I had before.