Ideas on idle temps for a 5800H?

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I got the new ASUS Tuf A15 with the 5800H and the 3070.
During my set up I was watching temps and such, even after I'd finished doing anything that would use the CPU it's kinda sat between 50-60c at idle, I mean the fans aren't really going nuts, but surely that is high for an idle temp.

Does anyone have a 5800h laptop to compare idle temps?
 
High for an idle temp compared to a desktop, but well within its operating scope. How is the air flow under the laptop ... its it being restricted ? does the idle temp drop if you raise the laptop off the surface and give it free air?
 
I had it sat on my desk briefly, after the set up I got my tray out and the temps dropped to 30-40c ranges. This is definitely not a laptop you can just have seated, the airflow must be massively restricted when it's standard desk mounted.
 
Or the exhaust was blocked ? Was it sat up against something. Laptops will be designed to cool when on a perfect flat surface. But there is no doubt a difference when you give them free air flow.

There was a really interesting PCWorld youtube video a while back where they spoke with a designer of Dell laptops and explicitly spoke about the fan / cooling design. >>

 
Not that I could see, I'm pretty good about that kind of stuff. I'll keep an eye on it.
The machine was on charge as it was drained from the box, would the battery charging affect temps that much?

I mean it never bothered my old laptop, but this is an entirely different beast with a 90kwh battery so I imagine it generates some heat charging that animal.

EDIT: As I was typing that, the temps are now sat a 55ish, but the machine is doing nothing, literally this is the only tab open on edge too.
 
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What about your power plan settings ... a lot of laptops have the options of choosing performance / eco settings. Those sorts of differences will make a marked difference on the CPU idle.
 
It's normal for Ryzen desktop chips to be fairly hot when seemingly idling. Any little thing in the background keeps it spiking because of how they operate. So add some degrees to that as it's a laptop chip, and it seems fine. I say this to reassure you initially, while you find out for sure, not because I know for a fact what temp that chip should have.
 
Cheers chaps, it kinda stays low until it does something, apparenrly the fans don't kick in until 60c. There's no way to manually adjust fan profiles either and no custom option in armoury crate, which is disappointing.

That said, im finishing some touches on a cooler, just waiting for antivibration mounts. I'll be doing some benchmarks to see how it holds up.

I know it's brand new and all that, but ive heard stock ASUS TIM is terrible, would it be worth repasting with kyronaut or something?

Edit: i believe i had it on balanced, i forgot which AC setting I used.
 
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I'd leave the TIM till you really think its running too hot. My 3600 desktop chip struggles to stay below 45deg when bimbling about on the machine. Its combination of using a carbonaut pad, the case not being great for airflow etc. I do notice that it jumps in temp very quickly upwards, but doesn't really go much about 70 ... so I'm not that bothered.
 
I wouldn't use Kryonaut. Too many batches of it have ended up scratching. The company's claims of it being just one batch are inconsistent with the facts. I've got a scratched 4770K and Noctua cooler thanks to that ****.
 
@Donnie Fisher It's odd, I'm now plugged in on turbo mode, the fans are on low passive (tbh I'd like that all the time even on silent). It's sitting between 3.1 and 3.7ghz at idle and now sitting at 34c occasionally spiking upto 50ish if I make it do something. Can you suggest a solid CPU only benchmarking tool? I used to know a lot of them but I backed off PC stuff the past 10 years and this is the first serious machine I've had since then. I did keep up on the tech stuff and I can do all the hands on work too, just the Bench names are about it for me, I don't know what they do, I just watch numbers lol It didn't mean much to me when I did need to know.

@Danny75 Really? This is the first I've heard about anything like that Any reviewers always gobble TG peen lmao. I've used it in several of my repastes. Mainly PS4's and PS4 pros and never had any issues, even with repeat repastes too.
 
My asus tuf a15 ryzen 5800h rtx 3070 hoovers around 70c in idle. Either this is a crap product from asus, or we got scammed. Got this laptop from here, only rtx 3070 under 1800 £, and its to late for me to return it. But yes, high temps on idle
 
Yeah, I think the temps cool be a little better.
The urge to open up those honeycombs on the back and repaste the chips is real.

That said, all the stuff I read on the new A15 suggests that the fans should kick in at 60c, so at idle you shouldn't get to 70c?
 
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