therealczgamer
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First of all, my laptop:
Lenovo L340-17IRH Gaming (81LL00F5CK)
Nvidia GTX 1650
Intel Core i5-9300HF
16 GB RAM
1 TB SSD
(from how many posts about the l340 i've seen here, it looks this laptop has really crappy cooling lol)
So i've had thermal throttling problems while gaming for a few months now, but it's only in the last 30 days where it got very noticeable.
Spent quite a lot of time trying to fix it, including messing around with throttlestop, cleaning the laptop's insides, changing all power related settings... Eventually i managed to get the CPU temps under control, but the GPU is still problematic: It reaches it's maximum temperatures of 87°C within 5 minutes in SOME games (others work fine and only really throttle after very long gaming sessions, despite being similar in graphical intensity) and then keeps itself capped at it's base clock speed until i restart the laptop. Now since i've already cleaned out the dust from the laptop, and apart from undervolting the gpu (which i didn't try because i don't really understand the curve editor) there doesn't seem to be much else that can be done about GPU temps, so i guess repasting is my last option here. (believe me, i tried every single software related solution i found)
Question is, will it actually be worth the effort? I will be getting a laptop cooling pad in a few weeks, should i just wait for that and see if it fixes the issue? or does this seem like an issue caused by the thermal paste or a different component?
Any feedback on this would be appreciated.
(i will send more technical details/logs if necessary)
Lenovo L340-17IRH Gaming (81LL00F5CK)
Nvidia GTX 1650
Intel Core i5-9300HF
16 GB RAM
1 TB SSD
(from how many posts about the l340 i've seen here, it looks this laptop has really crappy cooling lol)
So i've had thermal throttling problems while gaming for a few months now, but it's only in the last 30 days where it got very noticeable.
Spent quite a lot of time trying to fix it, including messing around with throttlestop, cleaning the laptop's insides, changing all power related settings... Eventually i managed to get the CPU temps under control, but the GPU is still problematic: It reaches it's maximum temperatures of 87°C within 5 minutes in SOME games (others work fine and only really throttle after very long gaming sessions, despite being similar in graphical intensity) and then keeps itself capped at it's base clock speed until i restart the laptop. Now since i've already cleaned out the dust from the laptop, and apart from undervolting the gpu (which i didn't try because i don't really understand the curve editor) there doesn't seem to be much else that can be done about GPU temps, so i guess repasting is my last option here. (believe me, i tried every single software related solution i found)
Question is, will it actually be worth the effort? I will be getting a laptop cooling pad in a few weeks, should i just wait for that and see if it fixes the issue? or does this seem like an issue caused by the thermal paste or a different component?
Any feedback on this would be appreciated.
(i will send more technical details/logs if necessary)