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I bought a laptop from Cyberpower about 6 months ago. I realized 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. I've also tried under-volting to -0.130Mv but it hasn't done much.  My GPU seems to say at 80C max which (from what I understand) is fine. I know that laptops get much hotter than desktops but is there anything I can do? I use it a decent amount at a time so I'd prefer to avoid damaging it.

Thanks for your help!

 

CPU-Intel I7-8750H

GPU-RTX 2070

 

(I made a similar topic a while ago but it's dead now)

 

EDIT: Followed this and I've managed to find a balance between performance and my laptop not melting (gone down to 70C)

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Repaste. The external fan's only real benefit is that it lifts the bottom of the laptop above ground, allowing for better airflow. The actual fan part doesn't do much.

 

As long as your laptop isn't throttling, 95C under full load for a gaming laptop CPU isn't terrible.

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other than repasting and maybe cleaning out the insides of dust etc, nothing much you can do really.

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41 minutes ago, Genwyn said:

In the power plan settings change the cpu maximum state to 80-90%

I've done this and I'll experiment a bit with it

54 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Repaste. The external fan's only real benefit is that it lifts the bottom of the laptop above ground, allowing for better airflow. The actual fan part doesn't do much.

 

As long as your laptop isn't throttling, 95C under full load for a gaming laptop CPU isn't terrible.

I look into some thermal paste I could use and I'll clean it out.

Thanks for your help!

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So the I changed the power plan to 98% (for some reason 99% brings it back to how it was) and now it's staying below 70, but it's also no longer boosting. I assume there's nothing else I can really do except for opening up my laptop. Thanks again!

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