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Acer Aspire 7 thermal throttling

I recently bought new Acer Aspire 7 and started testing it, as I have several days to return it to seller if there are any issues. Model is A715-72G (i5-8300H and GTX1050, 15.6" version). Problem is that it thermal throttles during stress tests and gaming. I was reading about throttling on the internet and I have found that it can happen in modern mobile devices, but I have no idea how much throttling is too much. Is it normal for this model, or it has cooling problem and I should return it? Here are some stress testing results (every stress test was running for ~10min):

 

Aida64 FPU stress test, no throttling yet:

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Aida64 CPU and memory stress test:

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Aida64 CPU + GPUs, CPU clock drops to around 700MHz sometimes:

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Furmark + Prime95 in blend mode, it's not as bad as in AIDA test, but it's little bit below base clock:

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Half of an hour of Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, high preset 1920x1080, I didn't noticed any lags or anything like that, it was > 40 fps all time:

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So, is that fine or should I return laptop to seller?

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1 hour ago, LM78XX said:

Is it normal for this model

Yes. The cooling solution isn't great

 

If you want to keep it, consider undervolting CPU+GPU and do a repaste

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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@GeneXiS_X I see you have Legion Y530 with similiar specs. Can I ask you a little favor? Could you run similar tests on your machine and share results (especially AIDA64 'stress everything' with throttling graph)? I am wondering what it looks like on other laptops...

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51 minutes ago, LM78XX said:

Could you run similar tests on your machine and share results (especially AIDA64 'stress everything' with throttling graph)?

Unfortunately I can't since I got a lemon heatsink (QC issue in short), therefore the result might not be accurate

Desktop specs:

Spoiler

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB Gigabyte B550M DS3H mATX

Asrock Challenger Pro OC Radeon RX 6700 XT Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (8Gx2) 3600MHz CL18 Kingston NV2 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD

Montech Century 850W Gold Tecware Nexus Air (Black) ATX Mid Tower

Laptop: Lenovo Ideapad 5 Pro 16ACH6

Phone: Xiaomi Redmi Note 10 Pro 8+128

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