Gaming laptops are powerful machines, but with great performance comes great heat. As soon as you start running heavy games or graphic-intensive software, your laptop begins to warm up quickly. Too ...

There’s a common refrain in some corners of the PC enthusiast community: “May our frame rates be high and our temperatures low.” More than a mere utterance, it’s a simple, straightforward embrace of ...

Hot hardware is unhappy hardware, and with temperatures soaring to new highs across the globe, where you place your PC’s fans plays a crucial part in how efficiently your precious components perform.

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It’s approaching surface-of-the-sun temperatures here in Seattle, and no one in this city owns a decent fan, because… why? Luckily, my job involves me sitting very still in front of a computer while ...

Gamers have been using liquid cooling to keep their high-power gaming PCs from overheating for years… but liquid cooling takes a lot of space, so it’s usually reserved for desktops, although it ...

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