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Hey, I am using Acer Nitro 5 AN515-43 ( CPU - Ryzen 5 3550H, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD + 1TB HDD, GPU - RX 560X )
I am having some temperature issues with my CPU, the idle temperature with nothing in the background is 60-70 degree Celsius. After some research I found that idle temperature should be around 35-45 degree Celsius. Every time I do gaming (even in low settings) temps are 95 degree Celsius (GPU - ~80 degree Celsius) with too much over-throttling. Also my CPU/ GPU isn't overclocked/ I haven't made any change to any of the hardware. And my Laptop is kept at Balanced performance, high performance makes it worse and power saver helps a lot. But, I can't play games at power saver mode!!!
I have tried many solutions like :-

  • Cleaning the laptop
  • Re-applying thermal paste
  • Removing useless stuffs
  • Using laptop on plain surface ( using on a wooden table )
  • Setting max processor state to 99% ( it works, but disables turbo-boost, so CPU doesn't go upto 3.7GHz turbo-boost instead remains below 2.1GHz even while gaming and makes gaming performance worse ) 

I am wondering it is some kind of software problem or windows setting, WILL RESETTING WINDOWS HELP?
Some screenshots, GPU temps are not shown in NitroSense as GPU usage was 0% 

 

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I am really sorry, I am new to LinusTechTips. I have joined just before a day or two. 😞

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Have you updated the chipset drivers? Do that and try Ryzen Balanced power plan which is included in the driver.

 

I doubt resetting the OS will help unless maybe you have some crypto miner virus or something that puts a heavy load on it. Of course you can try but what I first said you should do regardless.

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Most likely not. Such temps aren't really abnormal for a laptop.

Did you actually check what CPU usage was like at idle?

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6 hours ago, aDoomGuy said:

Have you updated the chipset drivers? Do that and try Ryzen Balanced power plan which is included in the driver.

 

I doubt resetting the OS will help unless maybe you have some crypto miner virus or something that puts a heavy load on it. Of course you can try but what I first said you should do regardless.

Yes I updated all the chipset drivers and now I re-installed them all from the official AMD site. Using the Ryzen Balanced power plan make change about -5 degree Celsius temps remain about 60 degree Celsius on the cost of 5-10 FPS drop.

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4 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Most likely not. Such temps aren't really abnormal for a laptop.

Did you actually check what CPU usage was like at idle?

Only Chrome (2 Tabs) was running in the background. I am assuming Chrome isn't heavy load for Ryzen 5 3550H.

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6 hours ago, aDoomGuy said:

Have you updated the chipset drivers? Do that and try Ryzen Balanced power plan which is included in the driver.

 

I doubt resetting the OS will help unless maybe you have some crypto miner virus or something that puts a heavy load on it. Of course you can try but what I first said you should do regardless.

I do have an antivirus running, but it is trusted Norton Security.  The CPU usge for Norton is around 0.1%-1% with a memory use of 40MB-70MB.
Can you please suggest some more tips before trying OS reset?

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11 hours ago, CaptA380 said:

Only Chrome (2 Tabs) was running in the background. I am assuming Chrome isn't heavy load for Ryzen 5 3550H.

It's not heavy load, no but it will make the CPU boost and consume power.

 

Well when you're just doing light stuff on desktop you can try power save plan. Ever tried one of them laptop cooler things to put under it for when you game?

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6 minutes ago, aDoomGuy said:

laptop cooler things to put under it for when you game?

It's the only thing that makes my laptop not throttle after 15 mins of gaming... 

 

Should honestly be default accessory for laptops as per design they simply won't get cooled efficiently without one. 

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18 hours ago, CaptA380 said:

Only Chrome (2 Tabs) was running in the background. I am assuming Chrome isn't heavy load for Ryzen 5 3550H.

But what's the CPU usage? " I am assuming Chrome isn't heavy load for Ryzen 5 3550H" means nothing, sometimes Chrome will end up using 15% CPU for me if some huge page is loaded, there's something with animated gifs in the foreground, or chrome just screws up...

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4 hours ago, Kilrah said:

But what's the CPU usage? " I am assuming Chrome isn't heavy load for Ryzen 5 3550H" means nothing, sometimes Chrome will end up using 15% CPU for me if some huge page is loaded, there's something with animated gifs in the foreground, or chrome just screws up...

I did put a screenshot of the Task Manager it shows 7.3% CPU usage with about 688MB RAM usage ( 2 Chrome tabs, 1. linustechtips.com 2. How to fix high CPU temps - Googled this)

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11 hours ago, aDoomGuy said:

It's not heavy load, no but it will make the CPU boost and consume power.

 

Well when you're just doing light stuff on desktop you can try power save plan. Ever tried one of them laptop cooler things to put under it for when you game?

I didn't yet tried any cooler thing, but yes Power saver helps a lot it keeps the temp ~38 degree Celsius from a whopping 65 degree!

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3 hours ago, CaptA380 said:

I did put a screenshot of the Task Manager it shows 7.3% CPU usage with about 688MB RAM usage ( 2 Chrome tabs, 1. linustechtips.com 2. How to fix high CPU temps - Googled this)

Even if there is not much load the CPU may still boost spiking up temps in the progress.

 

3 hours ago, CaptA380 said:

I didn't yet tried any cooler thing, but yes Power saver helps a lot it keeps the temp ~38 degree Celsius from a whopping 65 degree!

It will work at reduced currents. Try one of those cooler things when you game.

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