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Certavi
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 Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 8:23 am Post subject: Intel i7-7700 HQ too hot - need advice |
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Hi,
Problem
When playing my favourite games I noticed my temperatures were running very hot i.e. 84 degrees on GPU and 97 degrees on CPU.
Steps taken
- Cleaned laptop from dust and dirt inside and outside
- Reapplied thermal paste
- Complete clean install of Windows
- Today tried undervolting
None of these things have helped to reduce the temperature of my CPU, although the undervolting did seem to lower the temperature of my GPU to around 50 degrees Celsius. Any further advice? I'd like to play my games without wrecking my machine any more.
Information
15"6 laptop built by PC-specialist in 2017
CPU Intel I7 7700HQ
Graphics card GeForce® GTX 1060 - 6.0GB GDDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 12.1
8GB RAM
Windows 10
Idle CPU temperature of around 60-65 degrees Celsius
Cooling fans always running between 2800-3600 RPM
CPU core clock runs at 3 GHZ when gaming and high temp
Help question
The laptop has never crashed (yet) and game run smoothly without frame rate drops when trottled at 97 degrees. However it's far from ideal, I read I need to be more in between 80-85 degrees... How do I get there in additioin to above steps? Help! |
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Mr.Scott
Joined: 15 Jul 2014
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Location: Upstate NY USA
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:17 am Post subject: |
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| It is the nature of the beast. Laptops get hot. If you have already re-pasted with a decent quality paste and the machine is free of dust and the fans are working, that's about the best you're gonna do. |
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Calbris
Joined: 06 Feb 2019
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Location: Singapore
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 9:31 am Post subject: Re: Intel i7-7700 HQ too hot - need advice |
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| Certavi wrote: |
- Reapplied thermal paste
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What kind of thermal paste did you apply?
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15"6 laptop built by PC-specialist in 2017
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Model, please? This is very vague.
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I read I need to be more in between 80-85 degrees...
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Generally speaking, yes. Although, not all laptops are guaranteed to have a load temperature around that mark. They vary by a lot, so don't take that as 'truth', because your laptop might be 'designed' to run at a much higher temperature.
Some have a load temperature in the low 60s (e.g. Toshiba Satellite P25), and some have a load temperature in the high 90s (e.g. Fujitsu LifeBook U810). There's simply no 'standard' for their load temperature. |
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Certavi
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 11:54 am Post subject: |
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Thank you for your answers.
I had the thermal paste done by a professional and don't know the type of paste.
The chassis/type of my pc is called a 'Proteus V', but as it's custom built I'm not sure how much use you have for that information
So the throttling is set to 97 degrees and it appears it reaches that temperature rather quickly when even running less-than-heavy games.
The maximum temperature for my CPU is specified by Intel to be 100 degrees, but 97 is a bit too close for comfort then no?
Ofcourse I can't be sure that 97 is not okay, but I also can't be sure that it is and won't severely affect the lifespan of my laptop.
Can some CPU's really run this hot for years and it not be a problem in a laptop? |
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svmlegacy
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2021 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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| Certavi wrote: | Ofcourse I can't be sure that 97 is not okay, but I also can't be sure that it is and won't severely affect the lifespan of my laptop.
Can some CPU's really run this hot for years and it not be a problem in a laptop? |
The thermal throttling system of the CPU is designed to protect it. They'll throttle well before any damage is occured. They'll even cut their power if it continues to climb over Tjmax. Trust these protections for a mobile CPU that isn't overclocked. If you've already done the thermal paste properly, there's not much else that can be done. |
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