Is It Bad That My CPU Runs at 190°?

[AngryGamer1224]

I use an average gaming laptop, and whenever I play a game my CPU starts to become hotter than a car engine, and it hurts to use the keys. I'm wondering if this is normal for anyone else?

[Ogami]

Fahrenheit or Celsius?
Fahrenheit,at the limit for most CPU but not unusual for gaming laptops.
Celsius, your CPU should already be dead.

[AngryGamer1224]

Originally posted by Der Admiral:

If your CPU was running at 190 degree your CPU would be long dead, as would be your laptop.
The maximum safe temperature for CPU is about 80-90 degree, depending on brand and type.
190 would be so far outside the safety range your CPU would die the instant it reaches those temps.

Are you talking about Celsius? I probably should have mentioned this was in Fahrenheit.

[Ogami]

Originally posted by AngryGamer1224:

Are you talking about Celsius? I probably should have mentioned this was in Fahrenheit.

Yeah i already edited my first post since i came to the realization you were talking about Fahrenheit.

As for keeping temps down, try enabling Vsync in your games or limiting the FPS to a certain value.
Without that the CPU will just calculate frames as fast as it can all the time which leads to high load and high temps.

[mimizukari]

i'd say general rule of thumb is that if your PC isn't shutting off and your CPU isn't throttling then it's fine. i try not to let any of my parts get above 165 fahrenheit though.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

If it was Celsius you would've seen smoke coming out of your PC, but before then your CPU would've been long dead before even getting close to that.

Anyways ~90c is quite hot, so if this is a laptop, then not much can do but clean dust out of system, maybe reapply thermal paste if it been years you had it, or adjust fan curve to might it help in problem, and laptop cooler which is also minor but may be able to help.

if this is a desktop then it hot, either need better cooler, reapply themral paste, adjust fan curve, or don't overclock it if that what you did.

[BorgMC]

Originally posted by mimizukari:

i'd say general rule of thumb is that if your PC isn't shutting off and your CPU isn't throttling then it's fine. i try not to let any of my parts get above 165 fahrenheit though.

What do you mean by throttling exactly?

[Snivy]

Originally posted by BorgMC:

Originally posted by mimizukari:

i'd say general rule of thumb is that if your PC isn't shutting off and your CPU isn't throttling then it's fine. i try not to let any of my parts get above 165 fahrenheit though.

What do you mean by throttling exactly?

Digging up a thread from over a year, just to ask a question that google could have told you...

But just in case: To prevent overheating and damaging the CPU, the component itself reduces its clock speed or better know as throttling. The GPU does the same thing, as it reaches critical temperatures.

[Dr.Shadowds 🐉]

Originally posted by BorgMC:

What do you mean by throttling exactly?

In this case means to prevent burning itself out.

[Wayne]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.