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Just curious. There were two posts in a n i7-6700HQ laptop CPU thread that spoke negatively about laptop cooling pads.
I was wondering the same thing myself, as I recently spoke with a neighbor that had gotten rid of their desktop, and switched to a laptop (a Toshiba i3) some time last year, and he said that it froze on him recently. I asked him if it was overheating, he dismissed that comment, saying that he had a laptop cooling pad so it "couldn't be overheating". I did not have a chance to actually run any software on it to check temps.
It's not a "gaming" laptop, just an entry-level browser / cruiser rig with an i3, maybe a Haswell or possibly even Ivy Bridge, if he bought NOS.
Edit: Maybe it's the HDD, if the laptop has been tossed around a bunch? He keeps asking me whenever he sees me about putting in an SSD, a Samsung. But he never brings me a wad of money to order one for him.
I was wondering the same thing myself, as I recently spoke with a neighbor that had gotten rid of their desktop, and switched to a laptop (a Toshiba i3) some time last year, and he said that it froze on him recently. I asked him if it was overheating, he dismissed that comment, saying that he had a laptop cooling pad so it "couldn't be overheating". I did not have a chance to actually run any software on it to check temps.
It's not a "gaming" laptop, just an entry-level browser / cruiser rig with an i3, maybe a Haswell or possibly even Ivy Bridge, if he bought NOS.
Edit: Maybe it's the HDD, if the laptop has been tossed around a bunch? He keeps asking me whenever he sees me about putting in an SSD, a Samsung. But he never brings me a wad of money to order one for him.