Temp spikes of 100 degrees celcius in a brand new DELL Laptop - normal?

[Emilk]

Hi guys,

 

So im sitting here trying figuring out if this is normal or not.

 

I got a brand new 13" Dell laptop with the i5-1135g7 processor and XE graphics ofc. If i update my pc and at the same time open a bunch of sites in firefox the fans cant keep up and the cpu temp sometimes peaks at 95-100 for 1 sec then fall. Is this normal?

[genexis_x]

Dell set their CPU thermal throttle point at 100C

 

What model?

[Electronics Wizardy]

Yea that normal and withing spec of the cpu. Might as well crank up the power and temps to get faster burst performance

 

[Emilk]

Ok, just to clarify, this is just for 1 sec (probably faster) that it CAN record this temp with "heavy loads".

 

This is the Inspiron 13 5000.

[Emilk]

59 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Yea that normal and withing spec of the cpu. Might as well crank up the power and temps to get faster burst performance

 

Ok, nice! What do you mean with crank up the power? So I guess a shouldnt be worried about the temp spikes then? What I also noticed is that it takes about 1 min for the fans to settle after a heavy load, for example when completely stop every load on the cpu/gpu it takes a while for the fan curve to settle even if my temps are below 40 degrees celcius.

Edited March 5, 2021 by Emilk

[Kilrah]

He means that since it's within spec manufacturers have no reason not to allow it to get that hot.

 

So yes it's normal. So is the fans taking time to ramp up, manufacturers tend to tune for comfort rather than performance by default. My dell laptop has a "dell power settings" app where I can flip it between different performance/quietness modes, yours might have that too.