Extremely hot CPU

[dontknowwhattoputhere]

I bought a laptop from Cyberpower about 3 months ago. I realised when looking at my temps while gaming my CPU can go up to 95C. I've got an external fan (similar to this) but it doesn't seem to help. My GPU seems to say at 80C max which (from what I understand) is fine. Are those ok for a laptop? If not, what can I do to try and keep it cooler?

Thanks for your help!

CPU-Intel I7-8750H

GPU-RTX 2070

 

 

[Skiiwee29]

Thats normal for laptops to reach very high CPU temps under load. While hot, laptop chips are designed to go that high and will throttle itself to maintain thermals. 

[Semper]

Performance laptops will run hotter, as @Skiiwee29 said, with a few exceptions.

The best thing you can do is make sure your intake and exhaust ports have access to space to do their respective jobs.
You can also try some undervolting if you'd like, it'll be functionally similar to overclocking, finding a voltage where you're stable at a given frequency is your goal, though your mileage may vary for this.

[dontknowwhattoputhere]

40 minutes ago, Skiiwee29 said:

Thats normal for laptops to reach very high CPU temps under load. While hot, laptop chips are designed to go that high and will throttle itself to maintain thermals. 

So it shouldn't damage the CPU then?

25 minutes ago, Semper said:

Performance laptops will run hotter, as @Skiiwee29 said, with a few exceptions.

The best thing you can do is make sure your intake and exhaust ports have access to space to do their respective jobs.
You can also try some undervolting if you'd like, it'll be functionally similar to overclocking, finding a voltage where you're stable at a given frequency is your goal, though your mileage may vary for this.

I've propped it up as well now which should hopefully help and I'll look into undervolting. Thanks!

[Skiiwee29]

7 minutes ago, dontknowwhattoputhere said:

So it shouldn't damage the CPU then?

I've propped it up as well now which should hopefully help and I'll look into undervolting. Thanks!

Short term no, but if prolonged exposure to that type of heat (talking months/years for hours on end per day), it will likely shorten the life span on the chip. 

[Akira Shimazu]

anykind of heat will damage the cpu so...

[5x5]

Poorly designed laptops run hot. Not much you can do. Repaste, clean and undervolt.

[dontknowwhattoputhere]

Ok, thanks for your help!

[dontknowwhattoputhere]

On 9/21/2019 at 10:21 AM, dontknowwhattoputhere said:

I'll look into undervolting.

Using ThrottleStop, I went down by 130 mV (the most i could go without my computer crashing) but it doesn't seemed to have done much. Anything else I can do or will I just have to deal with it?