pc or oven?

[Bigkez]

my laptop hasn't got the greatest components i the world (GTX 950M, i7-5500U, 16GB DDR3) but it somehow manages to clock some insane thermals, even on games that are not very graphics intensive such as unturned and the forest. I am in the process of buying an external laptop cooler to try and reduce the temperatures. I was just wondering if there was anything else i could do to reduce the temps on the CPU and GPU, and if anyone could recommend a good external laptop cooler i could buy?. 

 

i took this screenshot of my CPU and GPU load and temps while running the forest on low settings.

CPU temp and load on the left and GPU on the right

CPU temps can sometimes reach 104˚C!

 

 

[Techicolors]

sounds like it needs a good cleaning. are the fans too loud? 

[Guest]

Reapply thermal paste. You might have to open it up though

[Droidbot]

search 'power options' in windows

high performance - hit 'plan settings'

hit 'change advanced settings'

go down to 'processor power management'

go to 'maximum processor state'

and make it 99 percent, save and apply. 

 

then use the power profile 'high performance' and it should stop enabling turbo boost, meaning it gets less warm and doesn't try to use more power by automatically overclocking itself. small performance penalty though.

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

search 'power options' in windows

high performance - hit 'plan settings'

hit 'change advanced settings'

go down to 'processor power management'

go to 'maximum processor state'

and make it 99 percent, save and apply. 

 

then use the power profile 'high performance' and it should stop enabling turbo boost, meaning it gets less warm and doesn't try to use more power by automatically overclocking itself. small performance penalty though.

thiss will hurt performance a good amount, i wouldn't do this. Those temps are fine for a laptop.

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

thiss will hurt performance a good amount, i wouldn't do this. Those temps are fine for a laptop.

from my experience it's around 500 passmarks off CPU-wise. 

not bad for 10-20c better cooling and generally better battery life because it doesn't need to kick the fan up due to temps

[Bigkez]

12 minutes ago, Technicolors said:

sounds like it needs a good cleaning. are the fans too loud? 

the fans do ramp up a lot, but i think that's them just trying to cope with the gpu and cpu temps. it is only 8 months old

 

[ARikozuM]

17 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

Reapply thermal paste. You might have to open it up though

More like "reapply the gooey cheese". 

[Bigkez]

19 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

search 'power options' in windows

high performance - hit 'plan settings'

hit 'change advanced settings'

go down to 'processor power management'

go to 'maximum processor state'

and make it 99 percent, save and apply. 

 

then use the power profile 'high performance' and it should stop enabling turbo boost, meaning it gets less warm and doesn't try to use more power by automatically overclocking itself. small performance penalty though.

ill give it a go if it doesn't hurt performance too much.

[Droidbot]

1 minute ago, Bigkez said:

ill give it a go if it doesn't hurt performance too much.

it's not permanent - just go back and set the max processor state to 100 to re enable turbo boost if it does fuck performance on u series procs

[Bigkez]

2 minutes ago, Droidbot said:

it's not permanent - just go back and set the max processor state to 100 to re enable turbo boost if it does fuck performance on u series procs

i don't really do that much proc intensive stuff anyways so it should be fine