CPU Overheating

[Antonio Revin]

Hello! I own a Dell G5 5587 w/ an Intel i7 8750H and the Nvidia Geforce 1050Ti.

 

I had a question as to how to cool down the CPU from getting too hot, playing high intense games it seems to draw too much power, and from Afterburner it seems to reach nearly 90C then throttling after that. (Side note, i have a latop cooling pad w/ 6 fans underneath of it) But it seems to do it no justice.

 

I use it mostly as a desktop with a monitor plugged into the hdmi port and a keyboard & mouse.

I've been thinking about taking it apart and adding a better thermal system. However I don't wanna take apart my $1200 laptop and in the future I'd like to buy an actual desktop and use it as a laptop.

 

 

Anyone have any tips? I've been playing Outer Worlds and it just drains my battery when plugged in. 

 

Thanks! 

[Skiiwee29]

welcome to the world of laptops. There is really nothing you can do about it short of heavily modifying the chassis to increase the exposed area and adding more heat dissipation surface area. 

[RollinLower]

best thing you can do is change out the thermal paste and clean out the dust, but other than that you;re pretty much stuck with it.

[Antonio Revin]

I'm still learning about computers, would adding another stick of 8GB ram help put less strain on the CPU or am I just SoL? 

[RollinLower]

3 minutes ago, Antonio Revin said:

I'm still learning about computers, would adding another stick of 8GB ram help put less strain on the CPU or am I just SoL? 

not really. getting more RAM would only help if you currently see that your RAM is running out. you can check in task manager to see how much RAM is being used when gaming.

i highly doubt you'll need more than 8 gigs tough.

[Antonio Revin]

Alright, Thank you!