What is temp is normal?

Tim10
Tim10 Member Posts: 27 Enthusiast WiFi Icon
edited November 2023 in 2019 Archives
What is the normal temperature for a laptop CPU? I have a helios 300 that sits at 60 degrees in idle but goes up to as high as 90 when gaming, it gets to the point where I can feel the heat through the keyboard. Is this normal or should I be concerned?

Edit: It would also occasionally have a weird spike to 70 or around 80 in idle.

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  • JackE
    JackE ACE Posts: 44,891 Trailblazer
    Answer ✓
    Anything under about 94*C is normal under heavy load for these machines. Jack E/NJ


    Jack E/NJ

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  • JackE
    JackE ACE Posts: 44,891 Trailblazer
    Answer ✓
    Anything under about 94*C is normal under heavy load for these machines. Jack E/NJ


    Jack E/NJ

  • Tim10
    Tim10 Member Posts: 27 Enthusiast WiFi Icon
    Thankyou!!! I was worrying if it was getting too hot and might be harmful in the long run
  • xapim
    xapim ACE Posts: 7,253 Pathfinder
    edited March 2019
    @Tim10 after 85+ it will start to thermal throttle (if not earlier its the silicone lottery) and you will loose all performace if you are experiencing that i suggest optimizing windows/undervolt and lastly repaste check my signature


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  • Destroya1221
    Destroya1221 Member Posts: 43 Enthusiast WiFi Icon
    Have you tried undervolting?
  • Tim10
    Tim10 Member Posts: 27 Enthusiast WiFi Icon
    Destroya1221 said:
    Have you tried undervolting?
    those temps are undervolted yes
  • Tim10
    Tim10 Member Posts: 27 Enthusiast WiFi Icon
    edited March 2019
    xapim said:
    @Tim10 after 85+ it will start to thermal throttle (if not earlier its the silicone lottery) and you will loose all performace if you are experiencing that i suggest optimizing windows/undervolt and lastly repaste check my signature
    I have already undervolted the laptops and those are the temps. When I first load up it would go at around 60 at 2900 rpm but if I do something heavy like games it would gradually go up to 90 at 5000 rpm (it doesn't matter which game, it'll still go up to 90) and at would slowly go back to 60 at 2900 rpm after gaming

    It's something like this
  • JackE
    JackE ACE Posts: 44,891 Trailblazer
    Tim10 If it were mine and I've used the thing steadily for a year or so, I'd probably alternately vacuum the intake ports and blow air in thru the exhaust ports a half dozen times to chase out dust bunnies that may have burrowed in & around the thermal modules. Then, instead of firing up PredatorNonsense and tweaking/fretting over its myriad don't-do-much settings & don't-mean-much monitors, I'd probably just set my power plan to balanced and play the games to see what happens. Hey, if the thing does what I want and plays the way I want, I'd leave it. If not, I'd probably go back to the performance plan and not worry much about temps being harmful. Built-in safeguards like auto throttling and shutdowns happen when temps average not spike above certain thresholds. Jack E/NJ  

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