My laptop as of late has been getting really hot. Too hot (or at least it feels like that). I've actually had to have 3 hard-drive replacements on it because of heating problems which would then fry the HDD.
I've only just got it repaired around the 12th of January and now it's playing up again. It never got this hot, even when my HDD's were failing it didn't. When it's idling I get around 44-49 degrees (Celsius). But as soon as I open a program (most notably: iTunes and even Windows Media Player, not all at once of course) it goes up to around 49-50C.
The highest I've seen was one of my cores at a temperate of 74C (while I was installing drivers, possibly because I hate iTunes running?), which to me, is pretty damn hot.
All that runs when I start up is AVG Free, Comodo Firewall, some program called "Intel User Interface". I had iTunes, Ad-Watch (this was associated with Ad-Aware but I uninstalled it), QuickTime, Windows Defender, Java, AI RoboForm and a Adobe CS4 Service also starting up (just unticked these in msconfig, don't even know why some of these were running).
Also turned off some (non-Microsoft) startup services. Will reboot in just a moment to test these (I use SpeedFan to find out my HDD, Motherboard and CPU temperatures). To me, getting beyond 50C is pretty hot. Regardless if my laptop can handle it (I don't know if it can handle it well though). What I'm running is a Compaq Presario C719TU, latest drivers installed.
What I'm looking for is advice on how to cool this thing down for as cheap as possible. When PayPal finally puts my money into my bank account I plan on buying one of these Cooling Pads (unless anyone knows of better?) and I will also be getting a can (maybe a few) of compressed air to clean out the fans.
As of now, both of those things aren't possible because of funds, simply put, I don't have them at this time. So if anyone can help me for as little as possible then that'd be appreciated. Thanks.
As of writing this my HDD's temperature is 42C, Motherboard is 55C, Core 0 is 50C and Core 2 is 53C.