Laptop CPU Temps

willhub

willhub

willhub

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Hi,

Just wondering if this is normal, if it is then fine,

I'm playing The Crew, Cities Skylines and Kingdom Come Deliverance on it, the CPU temp gets to 95 degrees with a TJ.Max is 100 on this CPU, is that ok? Or does it sound like potentially re-pasting is needed?

thanks.
 
Seems quite high, However ive not had much experience with laptop gaming.. when was the last time it had fresh paste applied
 
Minibiker said:
Seems quite high, However ive not had much experience with laptop gaming.. when was the last time it had fresh paste applied
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Only had the laptop 2 days, not opened it up at all. Don't want to tinker with it just yet at all to be honest.
 
Difficult to say without details on which laptop it is. Not much room for cooling in most laptops so they tend to run them hot to prevent the noisy fans running.
 
willhub said:
Not sure how I'd go about undervaulting and what I could expect
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You’ve got 2 options for undercoating, Intel XTU or Throttle Stop. I’ve undervalued my i7-7700hq by -0.120 mv and that’s knocked over 10 degrees off the temps whilst being stable (that’s stable as in proper stable not Trump’s definition of stable).

I’ve used both pieces of software and prefer Throttle Stop.

 
Undervolting reduces the heat produced under load, which means the machine can go faster, harder for longer before reaching thermal limits which would otherwise result in throttling. Think of it as Viagra tuning for your laptop.
 
Viagra on a laptop I can only imagine it's go hotter and voltages, clock speed would go through the roof :p Bad anology that :p
 
I've undervaulted it by -0.130V, anything more and it crashes, I've added a voltage curve using MSI Afterburner for the GPU.
 
I used the voltage curve on the GTX1060, interesting, so pretty much the GPU will overclock itself given if temps are ok, the boost on a GTX1060 for a laptop is supposed to be 16xxMHz, however in games it can get up to 1900MHz? I've also turned the cooling from Auto to Basic and moved the slider all the way down to "Slow", keeps it a bit quieter and temps on the CPU under 90 degrees it seems so all seems good in the cooling dept now.

Does Intel XTU keep the voltages adjusted even when it's not launched? I haven't launched it or started it up however HWInfo shows the -0.133V still.

Also any way to load up the profile automatically in MSI Afterburner, I've got Afterburner to start up automatically but not load the profile.
 
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Curious as to what your voltage curve looks like, as I also have a 1060, and considering going the voltage curve rather than 'static'/traditional route (my 1060 seems TDP power limited more than anything else). Are you able to post a screenshot?
 
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