Cooling a large laptop

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Published on 2010-05-01T11:09:50Z Indexed on 2010/05/01 11:18 UTC
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I've had my first laptop early this year and I haven't the slightest idea how to make it cooler. No real problems when I don't use graphics intensive games but when I play games like Dragon Age the temps rise up from 55 to 85. I'm concerned as a friend tells me that HP laptops aren't reputed to last long when it comes to heat.

BTW, I've already bought a cooling pad with 3 fans and it didn't do much that elevating it and pointing an electric fan at it didn't do before.

Additionally, this is a 17 inch HP dv7-3085dx entertainment notebook that i'm using.

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