laptop thermal throttling

[Omarika12]

my laptop's gpu is thermal throttling and idk why. i mad sure that all my fans are clean but still no luck

my hardware:

cpu: intel core i3 5005

ram: 12 GB ddr3

storage: crucial mx300 ssd

gpu: geforce 920M

[spartaman64]

maybe you need new thermal paste?

[Omarika12]

ok ill try thermal paste, should i buy a specific type of thermal paste or should i just buy the first thing on amazon? (sry im not really that good at computers

 

[spartaman64]

6 minutes ago, Omarika12 said:

ok ill try thermal paste, should i buy a specific type of thermal paste or should i just buy the first thing on amazon? (sry im not really that good at computers

 

any reputable thermal paste would do. IC diamond, arctic silver etc

[Omarika12]

2 minutes ago, spartaman64 said:

any reputable thermal paste would do. IC diamond, arctic silver etc

ok thx

 

[Omarika12]

so i put thermal paste and my temps went down but still thermal throttling even though my temps are low 60-70

[ShadowChaser]

6 minutes ago, Omarika12 said:

so i put thermal paste and my temps went down but still thermal throttling even though my temps are low 60-70

Your laptop not running at full tilt is not indication of thermal throttling. It's like when your car idles at 800rpm when you're at a red light, but can rev up to 4000rpm when you need to go ham when it turns green. At cruise you might be in the neighborhood of 1-2k rpm. Your laptop is doing the same. It's using as much power as it needs (aka not 100%, but not 5% either) in the tasks its doing. Even if your temps are in the 60s to 70s, the game or application may not be utilizing the processor or gpu 100%. Hope that explanation helped!

[Omarika12]

1 minute ago, ShadowChaser said:

Your laptop not running at full tilt is not indication of thermal throttling. It's like when your car idles at 800rpm when you're at a red light, but can rev up to 4000rpm when you need to go ham when it turns green. At cruise you might be in the neighborhood of 1-2k rpm. Your laptop is doing the same. It's using as much power as it needs (aka not 100%, but not 5% either) in the tasks its doing. Even if your temps are in the 60s to 70s, the game or application may not be utilizing the processor or gpu 100%. Hope that explanation helped!

ok... but since i have a geforce 920m it goes to 100% in any game/gpu intensive app and thats when it throttles

[ShadowChaser]

@Omarika12"Throttles" What exactly is throttling? The clock speed?