Ways to stop my laptop from thermal throttling

[Shammikit]

Hello, I have this HP Pavilion - 15-cc111tx laptop. Its got an I5-8250U processor and a 940mx GPU. The days I bought it I was able to play games like Rainbow 6 and The Crew without any lag and u barely notice the fans working. Im not sure how much the temps was but on the lowest settings, both games worked fine and I was happy with its performance. Now though, after 2 years these 2 games experience huge fps drops from 40 to something like 5 fps after playing for like 10 minutes. This happens constantly making it very unplayable. I have noticed the the CPU temps go up to around 85 and GPU goes as high as 90. I took the laptop apart and cleaned out the dust and put it back together and it still made no difference. I didnt change the thermal paste yet and its still running on whatever HP put. And the thermal paste that I have is some cheap Chinese one. It worked alright with my desktop PC but i didnt go to try it out here on the laptop. Apart from changing the thermal paste, what other solutions do I have for keeping my temps down? I think if I keep it at the bottom 80s I should be able to play without any trouble. 

[Prodigy_Smit]

Undervolting seemes to be your best bet besides re pasting. Download and run throttlestop, click on FIVR under cpu core voltage click unlock adjustable voltage, click on offset voltage then reduce it in small incriments untill you get a stable undervolt then do the same undervolt for cpu cache voltage.

[RubenvA]

First, change the thermal paste and then look if you can see a difference. If that doesnt work, search on yt for laptop performance inprovement of something like that.

[starry]

56 minutes ago, Shammikit said:

Hello, I have this HP Pavilion - 15-cc111tx laptop. Its got an I5-8250U processor and a 940mx GPU. The days I bought it I was able to play games like Rainbow 6 and The Crew without any lag and u barely notice the fans working. Im not sure how much the temps was but on the lowest settings, both games worked fine and I was happy with its performance. Now though, after 2 years these 2 games experience huge fps drops from 40 to something like 5 fps after playing for like 10 minutes. This happens constantly making it very unplayable. I have noticed the the CPU temps go up to around 85 and GPU goes as high as 90. I took the laptop apart and cleaned out the dust and put it back together and it still made no difference. I didnt change the thermal paste yet and its still running on whatever HP put. And the thermal paste that I have is some cheap Chinese one. It worked alright with my desktop PC but i didnt go to try it out here on the laptop. Apart from changing the thermal paste, what other solutions do I have for keeping my temps down? I think if I keep it at the bottom 80s I should be able to play without any trouble. 

You could try getting a laptop cooling pad

[Shammikit]

2 minutes ago, seapriestess said:

You could try getting a laptop cooling pad

do thy work? because all the videos I watched about them, they seem to be doing little to no difference.  It would be a blower of dust instead of a cooler. Heard those vacuum coolers are somewhat gud, however i dont think theres a way of getting one of those to work with my laptop because the air vents of this laptop is towards the screen rather than the sides.  

[starry]

6 minutes ago, Shammikit said:

do thy work? because all the videos I watched about them, they seem to be doing little to no difference.  It would be a blower of dust instead of a cooler. Heard those vacuum coolers are somewhat gud, however i dont think theres a way of getting one of those to work with my laptop because the air vents of this laptop is towards the screen rather than the sides.  

Ive never really looked at whether or not they actually work tbh.

I would assume they would? It was just what popped into my head admittedly. They might be more geared towards laptops that use their housing as a heat sink.

 

Did you manage to find any videos that actually test using a laptop thats throttling? It might be a different story if they were testing laptops that don't have heat problems to begin with, the performance wouldn't change because the clocks would be about as high as they go to begin with.

[Prodigy_Smit]

12 minutes ago, Shammikit said:

do thy work? because all the videos I watched about them, they seem to be doing little to no difference.  It would be a blower of dust instead of a cooler. Heard those vacuum coolers are somewhat gud, however i dont think theres a way of getting one of those to work with my laptop because the air vents of this laptop is towards the screen rather than the sides.  

Don't get a laptop cooling pad its absolutely useless you can get the same effect by lifting your laptop off the table with a book on each side so try that first then try my suggestion to undervolt.

[Shammikit]

2 minutes ago, Smit Devrukhkar said:

Don't get a laptop cooling pad its absolutely useless you can get the same effect by lifting your laptop off the table with a book on each side so try that first then try my suggestion to undervolt.

I already use my laptop like this with some books on the sides

[Prodigy_Smit]

1 minute ago, Shammikit said:

I already use my laptop like this with some books on the sides

So undervolting is your best bet, and repasting. Even the cheap Chinese stuff is fine.

[Shammikit]

1 minute ago, Smit Devrukhkar said:

So undervolting is your best bet, and repasting. Even the cheap Chinese stuff is fine.

I'll give it a shot by repasting as a starter

[Prodigy_Smit]

Just now, Shammikit said:

I'll give it a shot by repasting as a starter

Ok cool

[freeagent]

That’s what I would do. If those games worked before and now you see throttling, I would clean it out completely and repaste.