I am running an Aspire A515-51G (Core i5 8250, 8GB RAM, Gefore MX150, windows 10 home).
I owned the laptop for about 3 months, use it for pretty much anything,
and its running well. With an MX150, I can play a couple of decent
games on it - mainly, League of Legends, Diablo 3, STarcraft 2, stuff
like this. When I do, everything is ok. Temperatures (in Celsius)
measured by coretemp are as follows: idle 39, 45 - 60 doing light
stuff, and something between 65 and 82 when running games ( depending
on ambient Temp and on how long i have been playing). 80 degrees arent
all that good tbh, but it is a mass market multimedia laptop, not a high
end gaming monster, so i wasnt expecting more out of that machine. As
far as i know, running at 80, even for extended periods shouldnt affect
the lifespan of the laptop in a meaningful way. (I hope i am right about
this.)
However - after closing a game,
the cpu fan slows down quickly as soon as i step out of 3D, and this is
when the temperature spikes: Because the components are still hot, but
the fans are whirling on a low setting, temps briefly rise to 85, 88 and more ( Maximum was 93 ). It doesnt stay that high for long, just an instant:
I
am logging all the gaming sessions with coretemp. I set the logging
interval to 4 seconds and numbers above 84 only show up in
the max temp column and not in the current temp column, which makes me believe the components stay that hot
for no more than 1 or 2 seconds. So my questions are:
1. Is stuff like this dangerous to my PC?
2. Is there a manual way to change the fan settings on that aspire? I dont really mind the machine being loud while playing ( or shortly after ), i mean who gives a *****. I entered the BIOS/UEFI, but there are no settings pertaining to the cpu fans there, and i dont think speedfan can change the settings either.
Extremes over 90 dont happen often, and not after a short session, but this has happened at rather low ambient temperatures, and i d be lying if I said i wasnt worried.
I have the dropbox link to a typical coretemp log here:
Quite telling is the timestamp on 16:20:15 for Core 1 : By this time, current Temp was 71 and max was 83, but 4 seconds later current was 75, but max temp had jumped to 94, on the next timestamp, it had gone down to 69.
Thank you for listening - I am looking forward to clarification on that matter,
Sincerely,
Henry Q
( edited the title to add the model name )
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Tried cleaning internally, tried reinstalling windows and this behavior stills the same, honestly i dont have any hope of acer fixing it now.