Ideapad z585 overheating, Don't know why.

[Conduit]

I have a Lenovo Ideapad z585 with a AMD A8-4500M 1.9 GHZ (2.9 turbo) Processor with ATI radeon hd 7640g descrete graphics that I've owned for 4 months, I do play games on it and most games like skyrim and tf2 ran well on a medium high setting, but about a week ago my games started to run more poorly and have worse framerates each day. I have installed a cpu monitoring program and my cpu is running at 100C (200F)! There is no dust in my laptop, There is nothing blocking the fan and I have a desk fan running under it 24/7, why is it doing this?

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[Velmarshal]

So the CPU is running at 100C, minimum and maximum 115C? That's insane, mostly because AMD APUs are supposed to operate under 72C. Care to try another program just to check if the tems are correct (Speccy, speedfan)?
Otherwise, the symptoms do imply overheating. Did you by any chance damage the fan, last time you cleaned the notebook, or maybe left a cable over it that slows it down?

Did anything particular happen with the notebook a week ago when you noticed such overheating and performance drops?

[_I_]

its overheating

clean it out, use an aircompressor or cans of compressed air and blow in all of the vents
and get a cooling pad for it to help with airflow

[rotNdude]

What monitoring program is that and what version are you running? Is it this?

http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor-pro/versions-history.html

If you were actually running 100°C on the CPU, it would simply shut down.

[Conduit]

Originally posted by Velmarshal:

So the CPU is running at 100C, minimum and maximum 115C? That's insane, mostly because AMD APUs are supposed to operate under 72C. Care to try another program just to check if the tems are correct (Speccy, speedfan)?
Otherwise, the symptoms do imply overheating. Did you by any chance damage the fan, last time you cleaned the notebook, or maybe left a cable over it that slows it down?

Did anything particular happen with the notebook a week ago when you noticed such overheating and performance drops?

Well I tried another program, this one said I was running at only 50c, so overheating isn't the issue, but for some reason every game is running very badly, Even on lowest graphical settings, I don't know why

[rotNdude]

It's because that laptop is meant for light gaming. If it started out running OK but is now running slower, it's probably because you've loaded more software that starts up when Windows starts.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-A-Series-A8-4500M-Notebook-Processor.74884.0.html