Swift SFX14-41G Is my laptop temperature too high while gaming?

LewisRingBearer

Hi, I recently bought an Acer Swift SFX14-41G laptop and downloaded CPUID HWMonitor. I booted up a game and afterwards it said the CPU and motherboard max temps were at 96.6°C and 95. The GPU is was at 87°C, are these normal temperatures? Will this damage the battery/CPU/GPU etc. It has a AMD 5600U and RTX 3050. I read online that high temps for laptops are normal and it can't get too high as it will just throttle itself to lower it.

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JackE

Too high. Make sure laptop sits above a hard surface so air vents aren't blocked, Then try another temperature monitor freeware like CoreTemp to confirm temperatures

StevenGen

LewisRingBearer said:

Hi, I recently bought an Acer Swift SFX14-41G laptop and downloaded CPUID HWMonitor. I booted up a game and afterwards it said the CPU and motherboard max temps were at 96.6°C and 95. The GPU is was at 87°C, are these normal temperatures? Will this damage the battery/CPU/GPU etc. It has a AMD 5600U and RTX 3050. I read online that high temps for laptops are normal and it can't get too high as it will just throttle itself to lower it.

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Those temps are way too high for the cpu and gpu as they are on the verge of your laptop turning off from high heat and safety of doing damage to your laptops components! Get a top end tablet laptop cooler and repastre the cpu/gpu with a high quality paste and put the carbon high quality tor replace the OEM pads (see the Thermal Grizzly range) as they are the top products for this application. Or even repaste with Conductonaut liquid metal thermal compound (which you should follow all the appropriate instructions) as liquid metal compound is very dangerous if it spills around either the gpu or cpu onto the mobo as it will shorten and damage your laptops circuitries as its conductive.

Liquid metal compound is a great dissipator of heat but you need to repaste the cpu/gpu more often. try all these things out as and if you do it will reduce your temps considerably but I can't guarantee that your temps will reduce enough for your laptop to be at an acceptable and much lower range? Also try to increase ram to the max of your laptop and make sure that you have this laptop up to date with its latest Windows, AMD and all drivers that can contribute to your laptop working harder than it should be, which will reduce temps also.

billsey

Actually that is OK if you are looking at peak temperatures. Watch to see where they sit at an average while gaming instead of just looking at the highest they reach. I'd expect numbers closer to the low 90s. As you mention, the CPU and GPU will throttle to hold things down in that range. They will also force a shutdown when temperature exceed 100C, but you aren't getting there. The suggestions here are well worth following to help keep the number down and I expect the other responses were thinking your averages were that high, not your peak. I'm using Core Temp for monitoring and when I just looked all cores had peaks of 98 or 99, and the only gaming I've done today has been Microsoft Leisure games, so pretty low impact.