Laptop Overheating Issue

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Compassionate.

CQ40-401ax

Overheating is very depressing especially for gamers. People usually play games hours a day. However, due to some reasons, overheating occurs. Shutting down the laptop without any notifications. Even more depressing when it happens while working on something, a research, writing a report, or any assignment or project. Start over again even after 1% of work is still depressing.

Therefore, instead of wasting moneys on a new laptop for just the same purpose, why not try resolve the problems without spending any cents.

So, here is how to deal with this overheating issue. It's simple, applicable to any types of laptop(Mostly old laptop or laptop with AMD processor).

Go to:

1. Control Panel
2. System and Security
3. Power Options
4. From there, choose any power plan options, in this case choose High performance power plan. Edit Plan Settings 
5. Change advanced power settings
6. Scroll down and expand Processor power management. Then, set the Minimum processor state for plugged in to any value between 5% to 60%. After that, set the Maximum processor state for plugged in to a suitable value. For CQ40-401ax, the recommended value is between 80% to 90%, depends on the condition of the laptop. The value can also be applied to other types of laptop make or model.

Some performance drop might be felt in certain condition if the value is set below 80% or 85%,.under certain loads.

Try this solution, works or not, and any inquiries do write any comment.