I'm using the laptop from november 2023 and i mainly use the Game Balanced profiile, sometimes the Game Quiet profile (setted with NitroSense).
I use it almost only for gaming and i'm moderately satisfied with performance. The avarage fps in games is good even if the 99th percentile is considerably lower than the average with some episodes of stuttering.
The GPU temperature is low (max 70°) even if it works for hours at 100% and in general i don't have any problem with GPU even if i switch in Game Performance profile.
The CPU behaviour (i7 13620h) is not good as the gpu one. The medium temperature in games is 60-70° but it is sufficent a little loading form to push the cpu immediatley over 90° causing thermal throttling on some or all the p-cores even if the cpu load is almost always in the interval from 10% to 30%.
Also when i use chrome and move fast from one tab to another i can see (through HWiNFO) that some of the p-cores have gone in thermal throttling and i have some short freeze.
When i'm gaming i don't really realize that the p-cores have gone in thermal throttling. Maybe some episodes of stuttering are correlated with them but i cannot be sure about that.
If i run some cpu stress test like this one:
https://silver.urih.com/
after few seconds some or all the p-cores go on thermal throttling even in Game Quiet Profile.
Now the questions are:
Is this normal?
Before this laptop i had a HP Pavilion with i5-3230m and ATI hd7670m. It never goes on thermal throttling even if i run the silverbench for hours. I can play for hours with it with CPU going 100% (not on 10 - 30% like this Acer) and it never goes on thermal throttling.
I thought that thermal throttling was a rare situation that can occur in some hard scenario but here i can see that it is the standard behaviour.
The second question is:
There is a way to avoid this thermal throttling maybe by modifing some voltage configuration in bios or something else?
I use a laptop stand and the medium cpu temperature are low during game (60-70°). Peaks are the problem. In only few seconds the CPU can move from 60° to 95° causing the thermal throttling.
