Check the temperature during normal use with a program like HWmonitor.
If it gets too hot, do as Captain Yuri says and clean the dust inside, especially the fan and heatsink. Depending on how the laptop is built, to access them you might need separate the heatsink from the CPU. If you do so, then you have to replace the thermal paste (wouldn't hurt to do so anyway if it has been overheating).
Also: Specs?
My father's 600€ 10 year old Vaio is still running fine (1st gen i3, Radeon 5450m). He wasn't going to do any gaming, so I searched for a laptop with a GPU with very low TDP. Don't buy laptops with components that generate heat you won't use.
While watching videos, do you adjust the quality manually? My old laptop has a 768p screen yet Twitch automatically goes for 1080p@60 fps if I let it.
Last edited by Player2 - on 29 January 2021
