Gaming laptop on a lap? Noise/heat?

[petersteele870]

I'm thinking of getting a decent gaming laptop, but I'll also use it for browsing and Office stuff on my lap, while watching TV. In that scenario will it get hot? Will it be noisy? I don't want it to disturb my TV watching or, more importantly, my wife's TV watching (her laptop is very quiet).

I think some models have vents/fans underneath which worries me a bit. But presumably an i5/i7 shouldn't break a sweat when just browsing?

This would be my first powerful PC in eight years, so my knowledge is way out of date.

Looking probably at 17.3" Optimus VIII 1060, or 15.6 Proteus V 1060.

I understand it's likely to be noisy when playing games, so I'd be doing that on a table, in a different room...

Cheers!

Peter

 

[ubuysa]

Never ever use a laptop on your lap.

In the first place laptops are notoriously difficult to keep cool because of the limited volume of air inside. They depend entirely on good airflow to keep them cool, especially gaming laptops where there is going to be a lot of heat to remove.

Secondly, if you have it on your lap you will at some point cover some or all of the vents with your leg and it will very quickly overheat. Even if it doesn't reach extreme shutdown temperatures heat is the enemy of all electronic components and if it's running hotter than needs be then you're shortening it's life.

If you hope for children in the future the very last thing your reproductive organs want is a hot laptop sitting on top of them (or even nearby) for long periods!

If you must have it on your lap then get a solid tray and a fan assisted laptop cooler. Sit the cooler on the tray and the laptop on the cooler. That way you'll keep your laptop as cool as possible and avoid damaging your chances of children in the future....

 

[petersteele870]

Thanks, and I know that's a view, but it's not one I share. I've used laptops on my lap for more than a dozen years, have never been burned, and started a family in that time, so... everything's fine from that perspective!

Those were mainly mainstream laptops, though, certainly recently. What I'm interested in is if I get a gaming laptop, and use it on my lap for mainstream (non-gaming) stuff, will it get hot and loud in that scenario? I'm guessing no, but I'd prefer not to guess given how much cash I'd be burning.

 

[Oussebon]

You could use a laptop cooling pad with USB powered fans. This should help avoid either the laptop or you from cooking as much

I've certainly found out Notepad A200 very effective and useful, in keeping temps and therefore noise down. There's a very marked difference in fan speed during office work and multitasking with the cooling pad vs without it.

 

[Siergiej]

I use a special pad with additional cooling, has been running for 2 years and still works quietly. You plug in the USB, put on this laptop, and the problem disappears
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[petersteele870]

Thanks for offering a solution to a problem, but nobody has said whether there's actually a problem to begin with. Happily I happened upon this, albeit for a different model:
https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/m...specialist-defiance-iv-w-core-i7-gtx-1070/10/

This includes the following:
We had no problem with this machine when it’s idle or running low-intensity tasks. It’s virtually silent, and its temperatures were fine – neither the CPU or the GPU got beyond 46°C or 42°C.

It was fine during work applications, too. The fans ramped up a tiny bit and the processor peaked at temperatures in the mid-60s, but none of the heat made its way to the outside and the noise was never intrusive.