Acer Nitro 7 AN715-51 runs hot and loud all the time.

AMGx

I purchased an Acer Nitro 7 a year ago. AN715-51 Intel i7-9750H Nvidia Geforce GTX1660Ti.

When using Firefox to watch Youtube (with four to five tabs open) the CPU runs at 5-20% with temperatures in 60-70 celsius; GPU at 0% and temperature of 50-55 celsius. The fans are set to auto and run at 2700-4000rpm.

When playing resource heavy games such as Rainbow Six Siege, StarWars Battlefront 2, Hitman I set the graphics quality to medium if not low. The CPU is utilized from 60-85% and is at a constant temperature of 92 celsius . I set the fans to max mode at 6122rpm. GPU is utitlized from 60-85% and has temperature of 60-80 celsius.

I used to ( and I still do) igonre the high temperatures and play Siege for 2-3 hours at a time.

Recently when I am browsing the web or writing a Word document the fan sound has become pereceptibly louder and runs at the afore mentioned temperatures.

Is this normal? Should I just accept that the Nitro 7 runs hot and loud or should I service the laptop?

StevenGen

AMGx said:

I purchased an Acer Nitro 7 a year ago. AN715-51 Intel i7-9750H Nvidia Geforce GTX1660Ti.

When using Firefox to watch Youtube (with four to five tabs open) the CPU runs at 5-20% with temperatures in 60-70 celsius; GPU at 0% and temperature of 50-55 celsius. The fans are set to auto and run at 2700-4000rpm.

When playing resource heavy games such as Rainbow Six Siege, StarWars Battlefront 2, Hitman I set the graphics quality to medium if not low. The CPU is utilized from 60-85% and is at a constant temperature of 92 celsius . I set the fans to max mode at 6122rpm. GPU is utitlized from 60-85% and has temperature of 60-80 celsius.

I used to ( and I still do) igonre the high temperatures and play Siege for 2-3 hours at a time.

Recently when I am browsing the web or writing a Word document the fan sound has become pereceptibly louder and runs at the afore mentioned temperatures.

Is this normal? Should I just accept that the Nitro 7 runs hot and loud or should I service the laptop?

Those are normal temps that you are getting, the AN715-51 will turn off automatically if it overheats or gets to critical temps, so don’t worry. The best thing to do is to repaste the cpu/gpu with one of the high temp paste from the Thermal Grizzly range and clean the fans. As when you play hard core games these laptops do overheat, so you can also buy a tablet laptop cooler to increase crossflow ventilation to your AN715-51 while gaming. There is not much more that you can do as there is another drastic alternative to all and what I've suggested and that is to either drilling holes or make extra vents into its case for extra ventilation that allot of people have done to other laptops that run very hot while gaming.

AMGx

While reading online I gathered that temperatures above 90 celsius is bad and long periods of high temperatures can damage components.

Are you saying gaming laptops like Nitro7 can withstand long sessions of high temperatures with no long term deterioration?

But what bothers me most is high temperatures (70-80 celsius) while idle or on low load (such as web browsing) and the fans noisily speeding up to compensate for that.

I had assumed that an i7 and 1660Ti would make tasks easy but the CPU seems to stress out and heat up even when multitasking with just a browser and Microsoft suite. Friends of mine with laptops of other make having i7 or i5  run games with low temps.