Patrick: Hey Lissa, did you know that I’m a bit of a gaming expert?
Lissa: You don’t say.
What games are you good at Patrick, inquiring minds want to know.
Patrick: All of them!
It doesn’t matter, I’m the best!
My skills are fire!
Even my computer agrees.
Lissa: Uhhh, I don’t think that means what you think it means.
Lissa: Hi!
I’m Lissa and this is Patrick.
We’re HP employees who love gaming
and we’re here to make your OMEN gaming experience a success!
Lissa: Today we will be addressing how to keep your computer cool while your skills may be hot!
Lissa: Some common symptoms of your computer overheating include, Blue Screen of Death,
Fan Ready for take off (constantly running), and Laptop is hot to the touch
Lissa: The main causes can be apps continually running,
playing on a non-ideal play surface or an unclean environment.
Patrick: What’s great about most of our OMEN notebooks and all new ones going forward
is the integration of OMEN Command Center
Lissa: In OMEN Command Center we are going to focus on the System Vitals section,
which can give us an early warning as to whether our computer may be on the verge of overheating.
Something we can all benefit from.
Lissa: This graphic, outlines what some safe operating temperatures for your CPU and GPU are.
If you find yourself hanging out in the orange or red zone, or if you want to use best practices when gaming
then you can follow these steps to ensure your notebook can handle all of your “hot skills.”
Lissa: Let’s start with apps
It’s a good idea to check your task manager whenever your computer is running slow, hot,
or if you just want to see what all is running.
The easiest way to get there is to Right-Click your taskbar and select “Task Manager”,
from there navigate to the “Processes” tab.
Here we can see everything that our computer is running right now,
some of these are important system applications that are running in the background, we will leave these alone.
What we are most interested in is whatever is the highest in each category.
Try selecting the headers at the top to see what is using the most CPU workload,
or what seems to be killing your memory, we’re looking at you 25-Chrome tabs.
As you can see most of these items are a soft yellow color,
if your system thinks anything is too much it will go from yellow to orange to red.
Things that are in orange and red are causing your system
to work overtime on whatever task or app is controlling it,
which could cause overheating.
We want to close the unimportant tasks that are orange and red.
This is a good practice anytime, but it’s especially good to
double check that your system isn’t working too hard on things that aren’t gaming related.
Patrick: Our notebooks today are growing more and more powerful in a smaller form factor.
In order to run effectively, our laptops need to have plenty of room to breathe,
so that means no gaming in a pillow fort, unfortunately.
To demonstrate this, we booted up our notebooks and watched some
hilarious cat videos on both a hard surface, such as a table, and a blanket for over 5 minutes.
You can see how quickly the notebook heats up when it’s on the blanket as opposed to the table.
Patrick: Similar to playing on a hard play surface, it is also important to maintain
a clean environment because when your fans on the notebook operate,
they are pulling in the cold air from the outside to cool the inside.
But if you are watching this video it might be because your notebook keyboard has been your cat’s home for a
while now and the inside of your notebook may be a little dirty.
To safely clean your notebook, make sure the device is fully turned off and unplugged.
Next place your notebook on a soft flat surface.
With the underside facing up we will carefully remove all of the screws and bottom cover
to clean inside of the notebook
Be very careful.
Lissa: Umm…
I think I know why your computer is overheating!
Patrick: Gently clean off any dust with canned air and a microfiber cloth.
Your notebook should have an easier time running now that it can breathe clean air.
Lissa: Thanks for watching!
We hope we’ve enhanced your OMEN gaming experience
and if you have any other questions, hit up HP support at hp.com.
Both: See you in game!