Sometimes cooling really matters on a laptop.

[johnwhelan]

youtube video

What is interesting is it's a Dell Inspiron with an i7 and a dedicated nVidia GPU. It wouldn't upgrade to win 11 and it turned out to be a heat related problem.

The content creator feels it has a design flaw and points it out in the video.

My take is on paper an i7 with a dedicated nvidia should run trainz fine I doubt if this particular laptop would run trainz.

Cheerio John

 

[pdkoester]

I think it always matters, especially when one has a decent GPU but the chassis design is that used by the lower end models, too. HP in the 2010s were the worst for me. The better desktop replace I was using had two big vents on the sides, big heat pipes, and blow it all out the back through to big spacecraft looking engine ports.

That was the ASUS ROG G751

 

[JCitron]

I think it always matters, especially when one has a decent GPU but the chassis design is that used by the lower end models, too. HP in the 2010s were the worst for me. The better desktop replace I was using had two big vents on the sides, big heat pipes, and blow it all out the back through to big spacecraft looking engine ports.

That was the ASUS ROG G751

That's describes my Alienware M18. The laptop sounds like a jet engine taking off when the fans kick in. The noise aside, the laptop runs quite cool, with the mobile 4090 running around 77C at the worst when running Trainz with much higher graphics than I do on my desktop PC.

 

[pdkoester]

That's describes my Alienware M18. The laptop sounds like a jet engine taking off when the fans kick in. The noise aside, the laptop runs quite cool, with the mobile 4090 running around 77C at the worst when running Trainz with much higher graphics than I do on my desktop PC.

I am fortunate that it is quiet, even when setting the fans to 100% manually with a tool in System Tray.

 

[KotangaGirl]

HP in the 2010s were the worst for me.

They were notorious for overheating. I purchased a HP laptop for my son for university and it failed due to overheating.

 

[JCitron]

They were notorious for overheating. I purchased a HP laptop for my son for university and it failed due to overheating.

Their new flagship desktops aren't any better. The price for this PC shaped object is absolutely beyond belief.