Hey folks, I would post this under PC, but it looks like nothing but dust enters there. I just bootcamped my Macbook Pro and partitioned about 60GB Windows 7 just to play DCUO on PC. It's been running well, but at times my laptop gets really hot and it slows down a teeny bit. So I was wondering if it's possible to move it to an external hard drive and run it from there? Would that increase the performance at all or would it be the same? If so, how would I go about transferring the files? Thanks, computer wizards!
Your laptop would still basically be as hot as it currently is, and technically the performance would suffer unless it's a USB3 drive. The heat is coming from the video card mainly, and only a bit from hard drive spinning.
It won't make a big difference. I have a MBP also. It has heat dissipation issues because the casing wasn't designed to be a gaming machine. The heat makes your system choke at the processor end... not so much the hard drive. An external drive can have better RPM and transfer rate than the one that came with the system, but it's the processor that's getting the performance degradation. An external fan might help keep the temperature down.
Thanks, guys! My only fear is that I don't want my laptop to break down or anything. I'll definitely look into finding a cheap external fan then, just to be on the safe side.
I found a super high speed mini 4" fan at Home Depot for like $10 bucks, ordered out of their catalog from the service desk. Crazy cheap and tiny, works well.
And to think, some people blamed bootcamp for their bannings....or bad network version. LOL But yes get some more cooling/fan most likely the vid card is over heating a touch.
Well you can do that, but it will not increases the perfomance, since external HD and USB = less data receiving. SATA > USB what about you buy a cooler table for your notebook? which it temperature? you may think it high, but it can be normal. Edit: external HD would make it slower, since the cpu have to go there (external HD usb) read the HD with a usb 2.0 or 3.0 (i don't know what is your USB) take all the information and show it for you, you would probably have some freezes and lags. Edit2: if you have a SSD card, it would be STUPID FASTER than your external HD and internal HD together! SDD card picture:
Hey, thanks for the advice, dude! I have a 2.0 USB, so I think it would be slower. Temperature is pretty hot, I don't have a thermometer near me, so I can't say how much exactly. Lol. I'm definitely going to look into the SSD cards. I've never thought about these.
no problem. backing to temperature, 50-75° is pretty tolerable for a Notebook maybe 80°, since notebooks haven't enough space for air like desktops. Advice, do not put the notebook on your lap, you may burn your legs... and it not pretty cool.... ALSO, by any circumstance, NO! place the notebook on soft surfaces, bed, sofa NO! it generates A LOT of heat to the notebook.
Just a head's up...a SD card is not the same as a SSD internal hard drive. The picture is for a solid state drive (the SSD) that is internal with sata-II bus. It's not a memory card. If you were going external with usb 2.0, you would probably see a performance hit. Depending on your system, with usb 3.0 (not an option, I know) you might not. Again, your issue is mainly the video card heat...get a fan and blow it at the laptop. If you're really worried about the temps, install a temp gauge and learn what gpu you have, as well as its max temps (usually you look for tjmax - thermal junction maximum - on the spec sheets).
hm.. thx and i just review her post, she have a partition with 60gb and windows 7... but her notebook "over heating" "a lot" so she want to put DCUO into a external HD and play it from there. it will not solve her problem, the notebook will "overheating" the same way. Your problem i just temperature, so a cooler table for your notebook is all what you need.
Get the cooler table, but this should tell you lappys like those ain't for gaming, even though they have a gpu. As for the ssd, good idea BUT if its an addition, as in keep your hdd too, is there room, less room means more heat. If its a replacement, as in swap for hdd, you may have to buy a decent sized one, 500Gb, someone correct me if this isn't the biggest available , which is expensive and you'd have to swap all your data over, not difficult but a bloody pain. Just saying.
