Melting a Motherboard?

[Don't you want a balloon?]

I recently donloaded a program called HWMonitor, it's supposed to track heat and voltages and stuff. I have a HP Envy with an Intel i7 4710MQ. According to this program, my laptop idles at about 55-60 C, and when I'm putting strain on it, anywhere from 90-100 C. My laptop would have either melted or turned itself off, right? I'm by no means a computer tech of any sort, but that just doesn't sound right to me.

Any advice?

[raupi]

In a desktop PC those temperatures would be alarming, but laptops don't have much breathing room. 100°C (give or take a few degrees, depending on the processor) is the maximum temperature allowed by specification. Processor and graphics card will throttle down around that temperature to prevent the system from overheating.

You might want to clean your laptop and make sure the air path is free of dust.

[Revelene]

What temp reading are you looking at?

[Don't you want a balloon?]

This is what I'm looking at. Laptop is pretty much idling.

https://s1.postimg.org/756ut8huun/SCREENSHOT.png

[Arya]

That's pretty normal for an aging laptop. Obviously a temperature that high isn't ideal, but it's not unexpected or unusual.

I wouldn't worry about it, since there's really nothing you can do about it. There's no way to upgrade the cooling system or give it better airflow. And blowing out the cooling system to clean it could potentially damage the fans, and probably wouldn't make much difference.

[FeilDOW]

Not to sure how handy you are but you could take it apart to clean it and reapply thermal paste. Temps might get better but laptops do run hot.

[Arya]

Messaggio originale di FeilDOW:

Not to sure how handy you are but you could take it apart to clean it and reapply thermal paste. Temps might get better but laptops do run hot.

I feel compelled to add; changing Thermal Paste isn't a guaranteed fix. Sometimes it's a (Arctic) Silver bullet and other times it makes virtually no difference. The same goes for cleaning the heatsinks, sometimes it'll make a massive difference and sometimes it'll change nothing.

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

Those temps seem fine, you could get a cooling pad to help increase airflow a bit and lower temps a small amount.

[FeilDOW]

Messaggio originale di Wolfıe:

Messaggio originale di FeilDOW:

Not to sure how handy you are but you could take it apart to clean it and reapply thermal paste. Temps might get better but laptops do run hot.

I feel compelled to add; changing Thermal Paste isn't a guaranteed fix. Sometimes it's a (Arctic) Silver bullet and other times it makes virtually no difference. The same goes for cleaning the heatsinks, sometimes it'll make a massive difference and sometimes it'll change nothing.

I'm unsure what your point is, are you unsure what temps might get better means? There is no harm in keeping your electronics clean of dust and dirt.

The CPU is a 4th gen part and is coming up on 4 years old so the chances of temps getting better after cleaning and reapplying TIM are actually good if not done already.