• Question: what happens when you're laptop over heats

    Asked by 465radg28 to Reka on 10 Nov 2016. This question was also asked by Preety11.
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      Reka Nagy answered on 10 Nov 2016:

      In general, computers work better when they are cooled – because electrons can travel faster through material that is cold. The harder a computer works, the more electrons are travelling through it, which cause the system to heat up. The fans inside a computer or laptop make sure to remove this excess heat.

      What happens when MY computer overheats however? At work, I’m lucky because most of the work that I do is performed by supercomputers that are capable of doing a lot of hard work without overheating.
      At home, my laptop sometimes gets quite warm when I am playing video games. Sometimes this results in the laptop crashing, but letting it rest a bit and restarting it usually fixes the issue!

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