Some light gaming on the Ryzen 5 3500U -- temperature limits

[Noodle_Master]

I'm pretty happy with this chip. Good enough to play some light games with friends. I wanted to know how far I can safely push the temperature of this chip. At stock, the CPU only thermal throttled at 94C. I felt that was a little too high, so I used a third-party app called, "AMD APU Tuning Utility" to change power and thermal limits. Now, it stays at a steady ~88C.

 

I wasn't comfortable increasing the thermal limits until I knew it was safe to do so. How far can I push this chip's temperature without sustaining long-term damage? I plan to be using this thing for at least the next 3-4 years. I only game for about an hour at a time, if that matters.

[SignatureSigner]

I derped its a laptop

I doubt there is much you can do 

I would make sure your cpu vent is unobstructed but beond that you have other limits

[Noodle_Master]

3 hours ago, SignatureSigner said:

I derped its a laptop

I doubt there is much you can do 

I would make sure your cpu vent is unobstructed but beond that you have other limits

There is much I can do. As I said, in my post, I'm using a third party app that allows you to set temperature limits for your laptop chip. It does work. I wanted to know how high I could set this temperature limit without having my chip sustain damage. Thanks for the reply, though.

[Qyygle]

Laptops are set with thermal throttle limits for their chips, 100* is usually the default for AMD/Intel, that's what they consider the dangerous limit. Manufacturers usually set something lower in their firmware, but ~90* is normal to see.

 

If you just reset the adjustments you made with the software, it should default back to whatever the original was. 94* is high, but probably within spec. To lower the temps, you could try repasting the heatsinks, raising the back of the laptop to allow more airflow, or using a cooling pad. I'm not too familiar with what AMD tuning software is out there, but if it's possible, you could also try disabling the turbo limits on the CPU clocks. If you get acceptable performance from lower clocks, that'll cut out a lot of the power usage.

[Noodle_Master]

8 hours ago, Qyygle said:

Laptops are set with thermal throttle limits for their chips, 100* is usually the default for AMD/Intel, that's what they consider the dangerous limit. Manufacturers usually set something lower in their firmware, but ~90* is normal to see.

 

If you just reset the adjustments you made with the software, it should default back to whatever the original was. 94* is high, but probably within spec. To lower the temps, you could try repasting the heatsinks, raising the back of the laptop to allow more airflow, or using a cooling pad. I'm not too familiar with what AMD tuning software is out there, but if it's possible, you could also try disabling the turbo limits on the CPU clocks. If you get acceptable performance from lower clocks, that'll cut out a lot of the power usage.

Thanks for the reply. I'll see what I can do!