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Are laptops designed for heat?

My laptop CPU gets to around 75 degrees when gaming, it‘s designed for games such as battlefield 4 etc I‘m worried the temperature is too high, but i read that laptops are designed to tolerate to up to around 100 degrees, is this true? I need some advice!

Answer:

Yes, this is true. I have a gaming laptop myself and mine goes up to 80 but they can tolerate it up to 100. Your laptop's temperature is average for a gaming laptop. Hope it helps
The circuit board laminate of epoxy, fiberglass sheets, and copper circuits has an Underwriter's Lab approval limit of 105C. Sometimes the temperature measurement you see is the CPU core temperature, and sometimes it is the board temperature at the surface. There is about a 10C difference. As the temperature gets close, the fan should be running full speed and the CPU and graphics is supposed to throttle down in performance to try to bring the temperature down. At 105C, or close to it, the system shuts down. Also as it gets hot, resistors go up in resistance, and ceramic capacitors become unstable. You can get system instability as it gets hot in some weaker designs. The ICs themselves, diodes, transistors, and other electrical components, do get affected but not damaged at that temperature level, and the design is meant for product safety as the most important, as they would rather have a failure than a fire in a computer. Laptops can be replaced. People in a burning building are critical, so automated shutdowns are in place.

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