TIFU By losing sleep because of a built in computer problem.

Putting my TLDR at the top for convenience.

TLDR: When Buying a Gaming Laptop, it overheated quickly, almost gave it to a friend who claimed to fix computers for fun and offered to do it for free IF it was easy to clean but my mom stopped me, later I found out it was because a program that manage my games was forcing my computer to use energy it didn’t have too.

Just so I don’t sound like a disguised Ad I’ll refer to the problem program as Program A and the alternative program B.

Ever since i got my laptop it’s been overheating and I burnt myself once. My first laptop was an HP and couldn’t open chrome without lagging for 20 minutes. My gaming laptop which I saved 2 years for is a RTX 4060, My first game was Eldin ring and it was fine, I was 100% overstimulated like a person birth year that starts with 19 watching the world go from black and white to full color. But when I got other games I was experiencing lag and screen tearing. This program was baked into my computer, i didn’t download it at all.

Fast forward 2 more years and my laptop hurts to touch, i brought it to school and asked my friend what he thought, he said my computer temperature looked normal but after running a game for a minute it instantly heated up to finger tingling temperatures. He offered to fix it for free since he was bored but if the internals was fucked I would give him 20, I told him I’ll think about it and asked my mom for an air tag for my laptop. My mom then made me explain everything, she chewed me out for risking getting my laptop stolen when she could do it. (HOW TF WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW “I work with computers” MEANT YOU COULD FIX THEM, I thought it was an office job!)

Almost 3 weeks later she cleans the fans after being too mad to even look at me, she tells me it was barely dirty and asks me one question that changed everything, “Are your games Taxing on your computer? I don’t know why it’s getting so hot still”. I thanked her because it narrows down the problems that could be causing it.

I made a Reddit post on my main account asking for advice and someone without hesitation told me to delete program A from my computer, i don’t even know how he found out because I never said what I was using. I thought about it and did what he said.

Reddit, I would rather get kicked in the dick 1000th times before trying to delete program A again, it rivaled Adobe with how hard it was trying to stay on my computer. I downloaded Program B and it even had a built in button to auto remove it.
I used it for a few minutes and it didn’t lag as often (too tired to optimize it, just got it yesterday) and it got warm but not hot. I LOST SLEEP OVER THIS! I was even gifted a cooling pad but my computer was fighting it. I clicked a button called CPU Overclock on program B and my computer burned me like before, turned it off and it didn’t happen. Looked it up and apparently I was blindly using Program A when it’s known for overheating computers.

Their website made it difficult to download the application deleter and as an Added “Fuck you”, it took my keyboard lights with it, but the new program B brought it back.

My theory is Program A was doing the equivalent of taking crack for a spelling bee, it was making it was treating every game like it was extremely high quality when it wasn’t. Thank you to that kind Redditor in the nvidia subreddit.