Conser wrote:My computer might. The damn thing runs hot whenever I'm in draenor. It gets to the point where I have to cover my room's vent sometimes. Bad thing is that it's an alienware that's only around 3 years old.
1) If its 3 years old, have you ever opened it and used a can (or two) of compressed air, especially if you have any pets. Restricted air flow is the number 1 reason PCs overheat. It is very very simple to do.
2) Second most common reason would be a fan took a dump... while you have the case open, without touching anything inside of course, turn the unit on and look at all the case fans, cpu fan and gpu fan to ensure they are spinning. Those will only cost you a couple bucks. If that is the problem, pop the fan out (after you turn it back off) and take some measurements if the size isnt listed and you can snag it from amazon or newegg.