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• Calico45 Posts: 2,038 Member

  February 2021

  I am not really sure about absolute specifics, but I think it depends largely on your build. For example, my old laptop (which was indeed fairly old, but not necessarily compared to 4 and played the game well enough) was lava hot running 4. Seriously. You could barely touch certain parts when it was running. It stayed that way without frying until I replaced it.
  
  Now the new one with much more powerful parts does not get nearly as hot, but I sprung for upgraded thermal paste and added thermal pads because it had been a problem with my old one.
  
  So it depends, but if it is too hot to touch, it could probably use extra ventilation and care, etc.

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• texxx78 Posts: 5,657 Member

  February 2021

  My experience:
  - I have all dlc (except for jorney to batuu).
  - My laptop is an icore 7 8th generation with 8gb ram
  - My laptop has been working very well for sims 4 until very recently (1 year aprox)
  - since then, i have to play in medium graphics.
  - since then, i can't add big mods, like for example mccc, otherwise my laptop will get super hot and i can hear it making great effort to work.
  

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• Wolfium Posts: 2,672 Member

  February 2021

  Laptop always overheats, that's one reason why PC is better. But it shouldn't go over 90 celsius.

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• BabySquare Posts: 7,869 Member

  February 2021

  Wolfium wrote: »

  Laptop always overheats, that's one reason why PC is better. But it shouldn't go over 90 celsius.

  
  I've got a 10th generation i7 processor, and it occasionally spikes to 95 during a virus scan.
  

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