Hello everyone, how are you ?
I have an overheating problem with my laptop, according to the repair shop it's a problem with the motherboard, however because of a history with them I cannot fully trust them, also when I troubleshoot the power there appeared that the minimum procceor requirement where set too high, however the problem didn't go away. So my question is, can the problem really be from the motherboard? How I can confirm this ?
Thanks in advance

From my experience there is almost no way to notice a defective motherboard till stuff stops working. But overheating is a new one for me. The main issue to cause the overheating could be a faulty psu or overusing the hardware. I'm not the most knowledgeable about laptops, but I know a lot about PC's.

One main issue for overheating with a laptop is the cooling solution that the company decided to use. I have an HP laptop, which all the laptops they had during the time are notorious for overheating. In your case it could be one of the heat sinks weren't applied right. Also it could just be a poor design.

It depends on what part of the laptop is overheating, and what you are using the laptop for. If it is overheating while idling then there is more concern for error. However if you use it to play games, or just multi-task in general, it should overheat in areas.

Laptops can't have as good of cooling solutions and there is aftermarket cooling stands for them. Also they overheat regardless if you don't use them on a flat solid surface.

But keep in mind what part of the laptop overheats. Does it feel like a certain spot? Does it feel like it's along the vents? Mine gets hot on the bottom and keyboard due to only having one small fan for the whole heat sink.

The heat comes from the place where the fans are, also I notice that it doesn't heat up when it unplugged from the charger. I also find videos to freeze for a bit, even though the video is downloaded. I use an Asus n550j and this problem is new.

How long have you had the laptop before the videos freeze? It could be a faulty graphics card if you didn't have it long.

Also the overheating seems a little bit normal. If you are worried about it I would recommend a cooling stand.

I had it for 2 years, looks like the problem is truly a faulty graphic card.
I didn't explain this probably but the overheating happens even when no program is being run.
At the very least I confirmed that it was not the fault of the motherboard, than you for your help :).

If it's windows 10 there's a bunch of background apps that can tax the cpu. I had to Uninstal them with power shell. I couldn't use my laptop due to these apps taxing the cpu. My laptop is about 3-4 years old too and it overheats on idle regardless, which a cooling stand solves that.

I updated the the graphic card driver, and I think the problem is gone ( surprisingly), it's been up about 2 hours on the charger and everything is normal.
I didn't update to Windows 10.
What are your thoughts on this ?

I would only recommend win10 for 4k gaming and dx12. Other then that I would say stick with win7. But win10 is an updated version of win8.

One of the main things I hate is they made it so that you could only uninstall built in apps through powershell. Apps that I would never use and that tax the system can't be uninstalled the conventional way, due to the uninstall button being grayed out. Also there is a still some compatibility issues.

You can turn off background apps in your privacy settings, and keep apps from launching on startup in the task manager.