Is My Laptop Too Hot ?

[Bravo Phantom]

Idk but I just noticed my laptop is 10 degree below water boiling point. Damn... is this fine, or something wrong ?

Task Manager Picture: https://imgur.com/a/E5fE4jD

[Mad Scientist]

If you're reachnig 91C at 11% usage you may be blocking any and all vents for your laptop. Get yourself a laptop cooler, one big enough to put your laptop on without moving around. You're going to want to ensure you're limiting FPS & graphics settings for that game as well if it's getting that hot until you can manage the heat better.

[Thermal Lance]

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

If you're reachnig 91C at 11% usage you may be blocking any and all vents for your laptop. Get yourself a laptop cooler, one big enough to put your laptop on without moving around. You're going to want to ensure you're limiting FPS & graphics settings for that game as well if it's getting that hot until you can manage the heat better.

What would be a normal range of temperature for a laptop?

It's the first time I got a gaming laptop so I don't know.

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probably a good time to do some research on your laptop...

google and youtube are your friends...

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by Thermal Pineapple:

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

If you're reachnig 91C at 11% usage you may be blocking any and all vents for your laptop. Get yourself a laptop cooler, one big enough to put your laptop on without moving around. You're going to want to ensure you're limiting FPS & graphics settings for that game as well if it's getting that hot until you can manage the heat better.

What would be a normal range of temperature for a laptop?

It's the first time I got a gaming laptop so I don't know.

Generally, you never want any GPU chip to reach or especially exceed 90C in order to prevent failures. Components on the pcb can get hotter than the chip especially without adequate cooling, thus a failure can become likely or inevitable over time if multiple parts aren't kept cool enough.

[Ogami]

91C on a GPU at 11% load is definitely not normal, laptop or not.
Most GPU start to clock down automatically around 85C to prevent damage to the chip.
At what FPS are you playing?

[andreasaspenberg575]

you might have to change your thermal paste or clean your fan. until then however, just turn off your turbo by setting energy for the processor to 99%

[A&A]

Gaming laptops are expected to run at 90°C. Some laptops have CPU and GPU heat pipes connected together.

Also in the background, you can see that a game is running, the processor is running at 60-40%, you can see that the interval when the task manager is open is around a few seconds, and how many seconds passed before the out tab, we don't know. Obviously, this is not in idle state.

[andreasaspenberg575]

wrong. when it gets that hot it starts thermal throttling, meaning that its performance drops. by turning off my turbo, i get better performance, because i avoid thermal throttling.

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

wrong. when it gets that hot it starts thermal throttling, meaning that its performance drops. by turning off my turbo, i get better performance, because i avoid thermal throttling.

It's a GPU in the screenshot, NVCP has Optimal, Adaptive and Prefer Maximum Performance.

Regardless, the GPU needs to be cooled, and it needs to be ensured they aren't blocking the vents.

[andreasaspenberg575]

performance is based on a blend of cpu and gpu. if either gets hot it starts thermal throttling.

[A&A]

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

wrong. when it gets that hot it starts thermal throttling, meaning that its performance drops. by turning off my turbo, i get better performance, because i avoid thermal throttling.

All I see is 2.95GHz, not sure what CPU it has and how many cores are used. Turning off turbo boost will certainly result in lower temperatures, but not better performance. It is more constatnt.

[andreasaspenberg575]

i will explain: thermal throttling=bad performace. a slower clock rate without thermal throttling will result in a performance increase, despite the slower speed.

[A&A]

Originally posted by andreasaspenberg575:

i will explain: thermal throttling=bad performace. a slower clock rate without thermal throttling will result in a performance increase, despite the slower speed.

Give me a definition of "constant".

[andreasaspenberg575]

i do not know what to answer.

[Bravo Phantom]

Well, I started a huge debate asking for a simple advice about general temperature of gaming laptop. Here are some more details for anyone that wants to further bring valuable info to this post:

• Specs:
- CPU: Intel Core i7-8750H
- GPU: NVIDIA 1050Ti
- RAM: 16 GB
- Cooling System: A Software called "Intel CoolSense" is installed in laptop. And I have a cooling stand (which has 2 Large Fans and connects via a USB cable to laptop for power)

• Temperatures:
- Starting Laptop without opening any software: 50-60 Degree
- Doing small tasks like watching YouTube videos or having a steam download/game update in background (which is most of the time I use my laptop for except gaming): 60-70 Degree
- Gaming (All Games on low or high settings regardless; usually on high settings and 60 fps): Around 90 Degrees

• Laptop Cleaning:
- It's almost a month till I took the laptop for servicing. The service guy mainly changed thermal paste, and cleaned fans. It's almost 2.5 Years since I bought this laptop and doing heavy gaming since then. Almost 3 or 4 total times I took it for servicing in this period, and honestly my table is in a very clean position; I never found a lot of dust inside the fans. As far as I remember, last year I upgraded RAM from 8 to 16 GB (Max capacity of laptop), and since then I could literally feel that my laptop is very hot when gaming. But its been almost a year, so I'm used to it. Now I just switched over to external keyboard, so I wanted to see if there was something I could do about bringing those temperatures down.

I think that's pretty much everything I could tell. Thank you all of for the information :)