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Why anyone wouldn't bother doing something as exciting as measuring their CPU temperature is mind boggling to me.
I wouldn't worry about it at those temps. My i5-8300h laptop gets hotter playing Company of Heroes. I use that Intel tweaking app as I'm considering messing around with voltages and have a cooling pad on order to see if that helps.
Generally doesn't go above 80c with CoH at the minute.
(the "high" and "crit" are the limit thresholds)
That's with a fairly big but silent air cooler. I'll stick to my desktop for this sort of thing, thanks
Didn't get above 60 degrees. Just illustrates the problems with cooling a laptop compared to a desktop.
Also, I struggle to work without three monitors, which makes most portable applications somewhat redundant
The Acer is going to my mum next week, just doing my usual tweaks. The Intel XTU stress test on this got up to 72C. Prime95 for an hour got it up to 92c.
I tried a loaned Coolermaster cooling pad It did absolutely bugger all.
Interestingly I have disabled Speedstep on my laptop. Seems to have a decent effect on temps.
Plenty of messing around with my laptop. Reenabled speedstep but disabled Intel Turbo Boost technology. Also opened up the laptop and redid the thermal paste on the CPU. Dropped by a couple of degrees C.
Turbo Boost is the big one though. With it enabled and the laptop power set to Max Performance, it was clocking above 80c after a Prime95 stress test.
With power at balanced and max CPU state at 99% and Turbo Boost set to off.... much lower. Keeping it like this now as it has more than enough grunt for my uses and the fans barely kick in.