What I do to prevent my loq from diying
I was aware of the fact that loqs are pretty notorious for their motherboard death issue before I bought one, i7 13700hx 5050 variant.
Previously I owned an acer gaming laptop r5500u, gtx 1650 and had many hands-on cleaning and repasting experience on it so I'm confident that I will keep this machine alive until I have squeezed every last bit of it.
Here's what I do
- bought a laptop stand first
- I always use my laptop in custom mode with all the short term power hikes set to lowest, cpu on 40W and gpu on 55W
-I have the HWinfo software running in background to track the temps while I'm working or when the laptop is idle and msi afterburner for games.
-I prefer gaming in a space where the ambient temperature is around 20°C (mostly in studios after the class ends)
After doing all this the laptop stays
Around 30°C - 40°C on normal working load like PDFs, youtube, ai softwares and all running in background, 50°C- 70°C on mild load like games which don't take a lot of cpu usage( currently playing Control with medium settings ray tracing on with temps hitting maximum 65°C on both Cpu and gpu
It rarely goes to or beyond 80°C on loads when I'm rendering or playing something which wants all of my laptop
I think the major difference in the temps is because of the ambient temperature, when I use my laptop in my hostel room which doesn't have an ac the temps I told you increases by 5°C
It's been 3 months since I bought the laptop let's see how far I can go