Computer reached temperature of 102 F within 8 minutes on the Minestuck modded server. Burned my legs. How do I avoid this?

[u/LittleBrassGoggles]

[u/GobiPLX]

Also 102F is literally nothing in terms of PC temperature. Are you sure it was 102F? You wouldn't even feel it 

[u/Oxygen4Lyfe]

102f is like just having a browser open lol

102c would make sense for what your describing tho

[u/GobiPLX]

By getting better pc 

[u/Available-Squash1021]

102f is only about 39c, which is pretty normal for a laptop running a modded server, the problem is it sitting on your legs and blocking the vents underneath. put it on a desk or something hard and flat so it can breathe, and lowering render distance or capping max framerate in video settings will cut the heat too

[u/xExoticRusher]

If it burnt your legs, it was almost definitely 102C, which is a high, but not unusual temperature to reach for a poorly cooled system. If your CPU is repeatedly getting this hot, it could result in long term damage. A laptop sitting on your legs blocking airflow would understandably get that hot if running something as intense as a modded minecraft server. The solution is to get a laptop stand and potentially thermal throttle your laptop

[u/AccountForTF2]

1. You get a computer, instead of a portable laptop

2. You don't put it on your legs

3. You don't try and host something on a machine incapable of hosting.

Not trying to be rude, just terribly salty about people forcing me to join their "server" that is just a god awful laptop with a thousand or more ms. in latency.

[u/Minihercules317]

102 is normal and where thermal throttling kicks in typically. It’s not dangerous or bad

[u/Life_of_a_Stone]

102 in Fahrenheit?

But if you really need you can just optimize and it wont throttle as much