drdoalot

I just ran a test with speedfan. Even when almost nothing is running my processor cores are at between 65 and 70 degrees. This seems high, GPU is at 52 degrees.

What other games are you running? Starcraft 2 is relatively demanding on your system. Are you trying to run on high graphics? It might help to turn them down, turn off shadows and anti-aliasing etc... An upgrade would be the logical step, but if you want to avoid that then it seems like you've covered the bases. Make sure you're not running a bunch of unecessary processes in the background is the only other piece of advice I can give you.

Recently, over the past few months, my laptop has been slowing down during games to a fairly large degree. At first I attributed it to games simply having higher average system requirements, but today I was playing tribes with a friend with the same make of laptop, with notably lower specs, and he was running it on the same settings much more smoothly than me. I have a i7 Q840 cpu, 6gb of ram and a GTX 460M gpu. He has the same cpu, 4gb of ram and a GTX 260M gpu, yet for some reason he runs most games more smoothly. I am really at my wits end here, I keep my laptop uncluttered, hard drive defragged and not too full, registry is squeaky clean, I stop unnecessary startup programs and processes, etc... Today, I totally cleaned up. I defragged the hard drive, deleted a TON of stuff to get it below half capacity, and turned off as many unecessary processes as I could find. It worked fine for a while, then started to get really sluggish again. What I noticed is that it's getting pretty damn hot. Too hot to comfortably touch on the bottom. Both my fans seem to be running, and I opened up the laptop to clean out the dust, but it's still getting hot quickly. I do have a coolermaster laptop fan, but it does't seem to help. What I want to know is what is the easiest way to run benchmark tests on my components in order to determine which, if any, is running/reading slower than it should be. I just want to be able to pinpoint the source of the problem that is causing my games to run sluggishly with low FPS. Thanking you very much in advance!