Hello everyone,
I have a Acer Nitro AN515-53 that's equipped with a i5-8300H mobile cpu and a nvidia GTX1050 Ti (non-mobile variant). I am having a heating problem where my CPU temps will get to very near or at 100 C during heavy gaming and the GPU and CPU load will drop to around 10% for about 2-3 seconds causing major FPS drops. The problem seems to be that the i5, which has a base clock of 2.3Ghz will continually turbo to around 3.9Ghz (max turbo is 4) and will cause the CPU to heat up much hotter than it should be getting. I have been able to fix the problem by using something like throttle stop to disable turbo temporarily and this causes the CPU to run at a much more reasonable 60-75 C. My question is, isn't the turbo clock supposed to only be active for limited periods of time to help accelerate programs starting and things like that? shouldn't it turn off or at least lower that turbo speed when a sustained load is applied and the temperature is getting too high? I have not edited anything in windows or Nvidia settings except changing things like power mode to performance when the battery is plugged in. It seems weird to me that Acer would sell a laptop with a CPU that will sit at 90-99 C when gaming but maybe this is standard practice with mobile CPU's? I am pretty new to PC gaming and any input regarding maybe a program that would help regulate temps better or manage turbo clocks better would be greatly appreciated. I will post pictures of the CPU and GPU Load/Temp Graphs when I get home and have a chance to get some screenshots of what is happening. I can also post pictures of my BIOS setup but the settings are very limited.
TL;DR
Is there a program to allow me to change max turbo speed on a mobile CPU or a way to set a target temp for the CPU to throttle for?