My temperatures are 90+ even after undervolting.

Devendra1282004

Hello,
I have purchased my Acer Predator Helios 300 and my laptop temperatures reach 90+ after 5 minutes of gaming. I have tried every game and even undervolted my laptop. The FPS are 60+ till the first minute and after that it reaches 1 or 2 FPS. Almost all games that I've played gave me the same results. Please help me. When I am playing GTA V then the temperatures reach 98 after 5 minutes and FPS drops from 60 to 2. Please help. There is enough space for laptop to breathe. I have tried almost every method on YT. Now this forum is my last hope..........

My Laptop Specs are as follows:

Acer Predator Helios 300 Core i5 9th Gen
(16 GB/1 TB HDD/256 GB SSD)
(Windows 10 Home, 6 GB Graphics/NVIDIA Geforce GTX 1660 Ti/144 Hz)
PH315-52-58DM/PH315-52-5520 Gaming Laptop
(15.6 inch, Abyssal Black, 2.4 kg)

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invador0007

Things you can try:
1-> Try cleaning the fan, dust clogged in fins can heavily increase temperature and using a laptop stand even a book to raise the back of laptop to 1 inch can do the trick.
2-> Even after cleaning you are getting high temperatures, check your undervolt is it -128mv or resettled to 0mv with HWmonitor if so try undervolting it again with ThrottleStop (it's safe).

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3-> If it still in 90's all the time, try changing the thermal compound with some recommended TIMs like Arctic MX4 that'll resolve the issue (refer to YouTube there are lot of video on thermal compound application) but keep in mind after changing the thermal compound over/under tightening, uneven pressure on the heatsink will also increase the temperature, make sure to tight the screws correctly.

I hope this will resolve the high temperature issue.

invador0007

Another thing you can try is limiting the maximum Power(TDP) of the CPU to get the temperatures under control but that comes with performance loss yet not that significant loss.

Devendra1282004

Can you please guide me?? The FPS are really low as well. It not seems to be like a Gaming Laptop...

busu3

Undervolt with throttlestop and then download hwmonitor to see if the voltage offset of the cpu has changed. If it has become the undervolt value, then most likely ur fans are clogged or thermal paste is dried out. If ur laptop is in warranty, give it to acer to fix the above 2 things or u can do it by yourself(if its not in warranty).

Devendra1282004

busu3 said:

Undervolt with throttlestop and then download hwmonitor to see if the voltage offset of the cpu has changed. If it has become the undervolt value, then most likely ur fans are clogged or thermal paste is dried out. If ur laptop is in warranty, give it to acer to fix the above 2 things or u can do it by yourself(if its not in warranty).

Ok. Thanks for the suggestion. I will check. Have a good day.

busu3

Devendra1282004 said:

busu3 said:

Undervolt with throttlestop and then download hwmonitor to see if the voltage offset of the cpu has changed. If it has become the undervolt value, then most likely ur fans are clogged or thermal paste is dried out. If ur laptop is in warranty, give it to acer to fix the above 2 things or u can do it by yourself(if its not in warranty).

Ok. Thanks for the suggestion. I will check. Have a good day.

Happy to help!

ajax97

invador0007 said:

Things you can try:
1-> Try cleaning the fan, dust clogged in fins can heavily increase temperature and using a laptop stand even a book to raise the back of laptop to 1 inch can do the trick.
2-> Even after cleaning you are getting high temperatures, check your undervolt is it -128mv or resettled to 0mv with HWmonitor if so try undervolting it again with ThrottleStop (it's safe).

3-> If it still in 90's all the time, try changing the thermal compound with some recommended TIMs like Arctic MX4 that'll resolve the issue (refer to YouTube there are lot of video on thermal compound application) but keep in mind after changing the thermal compound over/under tightening, uneven pressure on the heatsink will also increase the temperature, make sure to tight the screws correctly.

I hope this will resolve the high temperature issue.

I got IA offset of 0V in HWMonitor but after installing XTU it is showing -0.128V. Why is that, does Intel XTU messes with stock undervolt?

Devendra1282004

Hi,
My gaming machine I Predator Helps 300 2019 and the avg tempratures are 70 and Gaming 98+ so I planning to repaste it. I am stuck between two of them. Should I buy Arctic MX4 or Thermal Grizzly? Please be kind enough to answer.
Thanks

busu3

Devendra1282004 said:

Hi,
My gaming machine I Predator Helps 300 2019 and the avg tempratures are 70 and Gaming 98+ so I planning to repaste it. I am stuck between two of them. Should I buy Arctic MX4 or Thermal Grizzly? Please be kind enough to answer.
Thanks

If you know how to repaste you should go with the kryonaut. If its your first time, you can buy mx4 and try your best repaste because with mx4 you get a lot of paste. Then later of needed, you can use kryonaut since you would know how exactly you should apply the paste.

invador0007

ajax97 said:

invador0007 said:

Things you can try:
1-> Try cleaning the fan, dust clogged in fins can heavily increase temperature and using a laptop stand even a book to raise the back of laptop to 1 inch can do the trick.
2-> Even after cleaning you are getting high temperatures, check your undervolt is it -128mv or resettled to 0mv with HWmonitor if so try undervolting it again with ThrottleStop (it's safe).

3-> If it still in 90's all the time, try changing the thermal compound with some recommended TIMs like Arctic MX4 that'll resolve the issue (refer to YouTube there are lot of video on thermal compound application) but keep in mind after changing the thermal compound over/under tightening, uneven pressure on the heatsink will also increase the temperature, make sure to tight the screws correctly.

I hope this will resolve the high temperature issue.

I got IA offset of 0V in HWMonitor but after installing XTU it is showing -0.128V. Why is that, does Intel XTU messes with stock undervolt?

Intel XTU seems to interfere with the off set done by predator sense, I would suggest you to completely uninstall XTU fresh install Predator Sense that will restore the Off-set to default underclock done by acer.

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