i7-8750H Cores Heating Uneven

[shahaan]

Hi,

 

I have an MSI GS65 "Stealth Thin" laptop with an i7-8750H (6 cores). When running benchmarking workloads, I notice that a few of the cores heat up unevenly.

 

Does this possibly indicate a need to remove and re-paste the CPU heat sink? Or could it be due to something else worth looking into?

 

Thanks.

 

Running Prime95 small FTTs:

Core 0 ... 79C ... -1C from core 2

Core 1 ... 75C ... -5C from core 2

Core 2 ... 80C ... taking this core as baseline

Core 3 ... 75C ... -5C from core 2

Core 4 ... 79C ... -1C from core 2

Core 5 ... 74C ... -6C from core 2

[SavageNeo]

4 minutes ago, shahaan said:

Hi,

 

I have an MSI GS65 "Stealth Thin" laptop with an i7-8750H (6 cores). When running benchmarking workloads, I notice that a few of the cores heat up unevenly.

 

Does this possibly indicate a need to remove and re-paste the CPU heat sink? Or could it be due to something else worth looking into?

 

Thanks.

 

Running Prime95 small FTTs:

Core 0 ... 79C ... -1C from core 2

Core 1 ... 75C ... -5C from core 2

Core 2 ... 80C ... taking this core as baseline

Core 3 ... 75C ... -5C from core 2

Core 4 ... 79C ... -1C from core 2

Core 5 ... 74C ... -6C from core 2

That is kinda normal. At least my r7 3700x does the same thing

[maazster]

16 minutes ago, SavageNeo said:

That is kinda normal. At least my r7 3700x does the same thing

Can confirm this is normal but from a 2500k instead. You could replace the thermal paste from factory to get lower temperatures across all cores, it will also give you an opportunity to remount the cooler for your laptop but in all honesty you have nothing to worry about, especially if those are the temps you are getting after running P95 small FFTs, you should be fine.

[AkSo2504]

Hi,

I have a i7 8700k and they really like to spike in temps so thats normal and i have the same :).