Hey guys, seems to be a lot of contradictory opinions on CPU temperature on the internet, so I’m going to try here.
Had my laptop about a year, use it for gaming and 3d/animation work. Recently noticed while playing some games the CPU is hitting 100’ and staying around the 90’ mark. This cant be good. Not sure how long it has been doing this but I’ve only really looked into it and monitored with HW Monitor to get actual temps.
Took it apart and cleaned out the dust from fans etc, no difference I can see. I have throttlestop but see that the options are all locked. Was going to try and undervolt. Could it just need a repaste/change of thermal pads?
Any help appreciated!
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Razer 17 i9 12900H Too hot
+1Yes, I’d repaste it and undervolt if possible.
Allso try to keep it on a stand, to provide better air circulation from the bottom.
How do I undervolt if everything is locked in Throttlestop. Anyone know a way around this?
same shit
unfortunatly the only way to reduce the heat is to either buy a laptop cooling pad or turn off turbo boost in throttle stop, the i9 12900h is locked by intel and there is no current way to undervolt it yet. however you can go into the settings and turn off the mux switch which will turn off the intergrated cpu graphics and only use your amd or nvidia gpu. i did this on my laptop and while gaming temps stay under 90 i also have the llano laptop cooler which helps alot to keep temps down when gaming heavy
there is one possible way not to overheat the laptop.
open Synapse and put the CPU in low or middle mode.
low mode is till 2600 mHz
medium is till 3220 mHz
High mode and boost CPU make a laptop work on 5 mHz which make your laptop hot
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