Hi.

My laptop (i9-13950hx (B0), 4080, 32gb, Win 11 23H2) is 6 months out of warranty and is suddenly overheating on idle to the point where everything is throttled and basic tasks are too much to handle.

I read about the Intel degradation issue a few days ago and figured I’d update everything to the latest drivers and that’s when I noticed the problems. I’ve gotten a lot of CLOCK_WATCHDGO_TIMEOUT BSODs ever since. I tried rolling back Intel and Nvidia drivers, which took many crashes (Nvidia specifically), and now it’s a little more stable (I can browse and maybe watch a Youtube video at the same time). The only thing I can’t rollback is the BIOS update.

I did a repaste, but that didn’t change a thing. Sitting at 90-100°c idle. CPU and GPU utilization is nonexistant. I turned on the computer this morning and opened HWMonitor immediately. The temperature was at 68ish. I launched a game to see how fast it heats up and within 20-30 seconds it was at 100°c and throttling to where the game had 2-3 FPS. The fans are blowing, there’s hot air coming out of the exhaust. I have not overclocked or undervolted, everything is stock, apart from an extra SSD:

I saw people on Reddit with a similar issue. They had their motherboards swapped out under warranty, but mine has expired so I’m not sure what I should do. I don’t game very much, this is my main computer for video editing work and this issue is about to cut into my project deadlines. Any thoughts?