Hello guys!
At first I would like to appologize for my bad english but I’ll try to explain everything as well as I can.
I don’t really know why but once wanted to check my tempretures while playing and noticed some issues. I was playing at high settings and my graphics card tempretures were pretty normal (65°-70°), but my CPU tempreture was something from 85° to 90° and when it was loading a new battle it sky rocketted to 97° and more. I checked if War Thunder didn’t primary use my integrated graphics from my CPU but it wasn’t. I have set everything to use my normal graphics card. Then I lowered my specs from high to medium. There was no difference. The only one was that my GPU was now at 65° almost all times, but my CPU was still high in 85° to 90°. Then I lowered it even more to Low and Minimum specs, but still no difference. I have never had issues related to low FPS. I’ve even tryed to cap it at 60 and still no difference. I have cleaned my laptop from any dust possible and I’m even using cooling pad to help everything cool, but now I’m hopeles and don’t know what to do. Is there anything that I should change that I haven’t? I’ve watched every single post related to this issue, done every single thing but nothing has changed. My temps while not playing WT are more then good but as soon as I play this game, it is slightly worrying.
Thank you for any advice.
My laptop specs: CPU: i7-10750H, GPU: GeForce GTX 1650 Ti, RAM: 16GB
such temperatures can be normal.
You can run a CPU-benchmark if you are concerened that thermal paste or whatever degraded and needs to be switched out or dust needs to be cleaned
Edit:
Changing graphic settings doesn’t change CPU-load (mostly, esp in such games)
A CPU at 90 degrees is far from normal. Clearly with such a modern processor you have a problem.
Its maximum is 100 c .Played at WT it should be between 45-60 degrees.
It may be that the heatsink fans are misconfigured. Some problem with the voltages…
Something is not working as it should on your PC.
This is laptop. Modern laptop. From what I can see, you are comparing it with desktop you use. You should not. Laptops today are small heat plants :(
PS. I am not saying OP’s laptop works perfectly fine.
Thank you guys! 😊
Also, my windows 10 is forcing me to use 120Hz frequency screen and I’m not able to change it. I think that this one is also a significant factor that is making my temps higher but ay… windows is windows…
You should be able to use 60Hz (you can adjust it in GPU driver settings), still, that’s not the issue and I would not recommend it - 120Hz is much better).
IMHO if you already cleaned heatpipes and that did not helped, not much can be done. Next step is to replace thermal paste on CPU (after few years, it can be “brick” and lost it abilities) but that’s imho too much for regular user. You can maybe try to check on your local PC store/repair shop if they offer such service.
Thank you. I’ll try to check that thermal paste/replace it and if that wont work I’ll visit someone that is better at this laptop stuff/repair shop because I’m too normie for this stuff 😅
I think it depends on lots of stuff.
Yes, there can be a defect (therefore the test and stuff), but you can also be just very CPU-limited with a bit of bended stuff, but hot-spot temperatures can be quite high, especially if almost all of the power goes to one (P; I know this is pre P and E core days) core and not a good split between GPU and CPU.
But it’s still safe (no overtemp).
Yes, there probably is something more wrong, since you don’t expect that high heat loads on a laptop, but also laptops have poor cooling, even though the power budget isn’t high.
So possible not that bad, but probably needs at least a repaste.
But like Fallen wrote later, it isn’t a thing for everyone to do by themselfs, since you can rip out some connectors.
Yes I know it is a laptop. Its top is 100 degrees, as seen on the manufacturer’s website. The desktops have similar stops.
It’s a very high temperature and 120 hz doesn’t help. That’s a lot of load.
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Laptop. laptop always run hot and you i7-10750H is known to be a hot chip at idle to begin with. As @Stona_WT Suggested, have it taken into a shop for a re-thermal and clean-out - if you are not comfortable doing it yourself. That said, depends on the thermal paste originally used and how old the machine is. If you play on a laptop you should always have a half decent external fan cooler. If you have a metal / alloy laptop body a lot of the heat is dissipating through the body but strenuous tasks will still cause it to run hot.
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@aLiVe – Intel thermal throttles @ 100 degrees Celsius. It will auto shut-off at 110.
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Graphics will not change much besides the potential ambient temp inside the laptop. I have not looked at the older cards and GeForce Experience in a while, but have a look if you can access the performance tab in the overlay and change your GPU fan target temps. Nvidia default target temps are quite high before it will turn on fans and this will definitely affect your ambient temps in the laptop.
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Never play on a duvet / blanket / soft object and always have a hard surface. Even you just lie in bed on some netflix get it a hard surface to sit on instead of soft material covers. Cloth fibers gets into places you can not imagine in laptops and if I had a scent for each wad I pulled out I could retire.