laptop cpu usage too high

[joaopt]

I have an old laptop (Asus N53SN, 8gb ram, SSD, i7 2630QM), for what i use it i guess i do not need to spend money on a new one, i have a much newer desktop but i still need a laptop for daily use.

It always worked fine until a couple of months back with the last windows creator update. The update got stuck on a loop, tried to do the update, failed, started over, did this several times. I finally formated the laptop and everything seemed fine.

 

But ever since my cpu has some weird behavior, always at high speeds, fan going crazy.

Before i never heard the fan except when gaming and i do not game on it for some time.

Now the fan is full throttle almost all the time, in HWINFO the speeds go to turbo bost even just opening opera and a single tab of LTT forum, but in task manager the CPU load never goes above 5%.

Besides the obvious noise from the fan, and is it loud, theres the insane heat from the vent and of course crazy temperatures, it easily goes to high 80's and even 90's and throttles. 

 

I have been limiting the speeds in windows power settings. I managed to find a setting profile that limits the cpu so it never goes past 2.0Ghz, so basically no turbo boost. This way it never goes crazy with the fan or the heat but it also gest really slow at the point of freezing the browser just on facebook whyle writing a comment.

 

What the hell. Can someone help please. 

[Tech Cheeky]

Same! I have the ASUS M51v Series and It Has High CPU USAGE and HOT Battery, Hot Transformer, And Hot PSU!

[Glennieboyyy007]

what programs are running according to the task manager?

also about the heat, have you ever opened it up to remove the dust?

[joaopt]

Just now, Glennieboyyy007 said:

what programs are running according to the task manager?

also about the heat, have you ever opened it up to remove the dust?

there is no process that uses much of the cpu, like i said with 5% usage overall this still happens.

I opened the laptop recently, cleaned (it has a good design, dust does not accumulate) and exchanged the thermal paste for a new one, but did nothing for the problem

[Tech Cheeky]

In task manager, everything is usual. And I will open it up.

I also dont have battery connected, instead i get the power transformer.

My laptop gets hot when using more intense software like games

[Glennieboyyy007]

1 minute ago, joaopt said:

there is no process that uses much of the cpu, like i said with 5% usage overall this still happens.

I opened the laptop recently, cleaned (it has a good design, dust does not accumulate) and exchanged the thermal paste for a new one, but did nothing for the problem

the sorry, but i don't know any other thing that it could be

1 minute ago, Tech Cheeky said:

In task manager, everything is usual. And I will open it up.

I also dont have battery connected, instead i get the power transformer.

My laptop gets hot when using more intense software like games

laptop's tend to get pretty hot when gaming, as they need to push many frames eventhough their air cooling is very restricted, leading them to heat up a lot

[Tech Cheeky]

Although even after browsing for 30mins without anything open, just windows 7 and chrome, It Heats Up!

[RadiatingLight]

Have you tried a reinstall again?

IDK

[joaopt]

39 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Have you tried a reinstall again?

IDK

of windows? i did it twice with 2 different copies.

 

I forgot to say, it even goes nuts just when i'm in the bios. Because in there i guess the windows power settings dont work, the fan goes wild. I have no way to see the speeds and temperatures when i'm in the bios but i imagine it goes to turbo bost and insane temperatures.

[Shadestones]

50 minutes ago, Tech Cheeky said:

Although even after browsing for 30mins without anything open, just windows 7 and chrome, It Heats Up!

Any laptop that has this CPU is probably very old, therefore it stands to reason that the thermal paste on the CPU has dried up and is due for a new application if possible. Accumulation of dust is also a big deal with aging laptops because it will make the cooling system inferior over time.

[Sors]

I had a toshiba laptop that was doing this, and all I had to do was clean up the heatsink with compressed air because it was fill with dust.

[joaopt]

23 hours ago, Sors said:

I had a toshiba laptop that was doing this, and all I had to do was clean up the heatsink with compressed air because it was fill with dust.

thanks, will try that