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Hi guys,

I just bought an ASUS ROG GL552VX for photo editing and the CPU temps a quite high especially on one of the cores when i export photos from Lightroom and the fans are going to the maximum speed. The CPU (I7-6700HQ) reaches 91°C and stays at 49-55°C in idle.
I am not gaming at all.
Are these temps normal? See the screenshot attached.

Thanks in advance!

 
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No them temps are NOT normal! You have intake vents on the bottom of that laptop, are you sure they are not being hindered? I would also recommend a laptop cooler like this>>> https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00J0NZYOK/?tag=tec06d-20

I use this one and have a very similar laptop in my sig and my max temps are around 62Cels on full load with the cooler and room temperature 22.77 Cels.

Welcome to TPU!:lovetpu:

EDIT what are your ambient room temperatures?

 
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49-55°C in idle.

No that is not normal, this CPU should run around 30~35 idle...
Something is blocking the intake/exhaust vents..

If this is not the case, RMA!

EDIT what are your ambient room temperatures?

^This, if your ambient temp is over 30 degrees C it would be possible.
 
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Something about that seems a little warm, my gl551jw (4720HQ) stays around 30c-40c (ambient anywhere from 22c to about 26c)at idle and usually tops out at about 80c during heavy CPU use (gaming, virtualization, etc) can we get some CPU utilization percentages to go along with the temps?
 

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Clean all vents and fans out, do not obstruct vents, get a secondary laptop cooler.

Replace thermal compound on cpu. Otherwise send it back. Laptops that are thin tend to do the worst on temperatures.
 

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Clean all vents and fans out, do not obstruct vents, get a secondary laptop cooler.

Replace thermal compound on cpu. Otherwise send it back. Laptops that are thin tend to do the worst on temperatures.

I just replaced the thermal compund on CPU + GPU and now stays on 40 °C idle and 75-80°C maximum on a Lightroom export job.
It goes to 91°C in Prime95 after only 10 seconds of test and i stopped it.
The heatsink and the cooler are very clean.
What do you think?

Thanks for the reply.
 
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Temps sound better, but what is your room temperature? Also, what are your windows power cpu configuration? If your minimum processor state is set to something around 100% the 40c sounds a bit better.
 

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I just replaced the thermal compund on CPU + GPU and now stays on 40 °C idle and 75-80°C maximum on a Lightroom export job.
It goes to 91°C in Prime95 after only 10 seconds of test and i stopped it.
The heatsink and the cooler are very clean.
What do you think?

Thanks for the reply.

You are fine, prime 95 etc are designed to put a system through the works.
 

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Temps sound better, but what is your room temperature? Also, what are your windows power cpu configuration? If your minimum processor state is set to something around 100% the 40c sounds a bit better.

At the moment my room temperature is around 22-25C. I will have to check the cpu power config when i'll power up the laptop. Thanks!

You are fine, prime 95 etc are designed to put a system through the works.

So everything is ok now with these temps? I saw that ASUS uses very cheap materials for these laptops. I should've buy a HP or DELL with similar configuration.
 

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At the moment my room temperature is around 22-25C. I will have to check the cpu power config when i'll power up the laptop. Thanks!



So everything is ok now with these temps? I saw that ASUS uses very cheap materials for these laptops. I should've buy a HP or DELL with similar configuration.

They all tend to be cheap, unless if you get a laptop the size of a textbook and a half. Then you are paying a arm etc and they are desktop replacement or true gaming laptop.
 
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HP and Dell don't do that good of a job, either and is certainly worse than Asus ROG.

Afterall, Asus ROG brand is one of top of line for gaming laptops. You may just have a leaky chip.
 
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I just ran a Cinebench R15 benchmark and the temp went up to 84c.
This is after i changed the thermal paste. Should i get rid of the laptop or it's just because the benchmarks are pushing the CPU to the maximum?
I've tested the 2033 Metro game and the temps are going up to only 80c.

What should i do?
Thanks.
 
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is the cpu downclocking during cinebench?
80° during gaming sounds fine to me for a laptop whithout a extra cooling pad(and they should work whithout it)
 
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A lot of times when there is a single Core and its running much hotter than the others, it can be indicative of poor heatsink contact ,or poor thermal paste application/performance.

Also cooling vents, cooling fan , heat dissipation system in general needs cleaning

Last year I repaired a Dell laptop for a buddy that was behaving similar to what yours is doing and the heat dissipation system was entirely clogged with lint, and the thermal paste was just about the same as the toothpaste thats on the outside of the toothpaste tube that dries out hard
 

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A lot of times when there is a single Core and its running much hotter than the others, it can be indicative of poor heatsink contact ,or poor thermal paste application/performance.

Also cooling vents, cooling fan , heat dissipation system in general needs cleaning

Last year I repaired a Dell laptop for a buddy that was behaving similar to what yours is doing and the heat dissipation system was entirely clogged with lint, and the thermal paste was just about the same as the toothpaste thats on the outside of the toothpaste tube that dries out hard

Well, the laptop is brand new and i replaced the thermal compound few days ago.
Usually the 2nd and the 4th core are running hotter, especially the 2nd one.
 
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you can select in cinebench how much cores ya want to use
my cpu has a diff of 10° between hottest and coldest
keep care when opening your notebook that the screws dont get worn-out.
 
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my 2670qm easily goes past 90 if i leave it on auto fan during rendering/encoding

i do have a max fan button, that doesnt really make it go below 90 though... especially if it's towards the turbo speed rather than the base speed at full load

i dont understand why you people are acting like a laptop with very small pieces of metal (surface area) & a small blower fan will be capable of the desktop cooling we're used to

i also dont understand why you people completely ignore manufacturer targets, intel having a tjmax in the 90s & laptop makers going for the lowest fan speed for the lowest noise without obvious throttling

those temps after doing the paste sound great to me for an i7 at full load in a laptop form factor
 
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Well, the laptop is brand new and i replaced the thermal compound few days ago.
Usually the 2nd and the 4th core are running hotter, especially the 2nd one.

And what are your load temperatures now and idle temperatures now?

If it's 84° after running cinebench you should be fine. As @kn00tcn said, those CPUs can go up into the 90s.

If those times are making you uncomfortable you're going to need to set a more aggressive fan profile. But manufacturers tend to air on the side of silence, so temps can get up towards the higher end of the scale
 

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And what are your load temperatures now and idle temperatures now?

If it's 84° after running cinebench you should be fine. As @kn00tcn said, those CPUs can go up into the 90s.

If those times are making you uncomfortable you're going to need to set a more aggressive fan profile. But manufacturers tend to air on the side of silence, so temps can get up towards the higher end of the scale

The idle temp is around 40c at the moment.
 
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see, idle temperatures in particular have no relation to anything on their own

if your room temperature is warm, your idle goes up / if asus decides to keep the fan silent on idle, your idle goes up

the only thing anyone should care about is real world (not a burn-in) load temp, it should be in a place where the cpu is not throttling (like, below 1ghz) trying to cool itself off, & where the fan is not at max speed so there is room to cool it further OR max fan speed results in 80 something degrees

(though, a burn-in test shouldnt result in a disaster, it should last a bit, maybe throttle at times)

everything is clean, fresh paste that actually lowered temps, there's nothing else to do on a laptop, this is the limit of physics when using standard paste & standard copper heatsinks/heatpipes
 
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Laptops get hot, laptop CPUs get hot, if you checked dust, vent blocking and put on new paste then that is all you can really do.

If you still don't like it, get a fat laptop without nice logo but with good cooling. Laptop CPUs can run into their throttle point and this one does.
 
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the throttle point is past 90, well, we dont really know until we see the clocks drop in realtime, so i wouldnt say this one hits the throttle point, not until the summer during rendering
 

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the throttle point is past 90, well, we dont really know until we see the clocks drop in realtime, so i wouldnt say this one hits the throttle point, not until the summer during rendering

Yeah, i am thinking about the summer to be quite honest, but because i am not gaming and the temps are going up only when exporting from Lightroom, i don't think it's really a problem unless is going over 90c.
So at the moment it's 40c Idle, maximum 80 when exporting from Lightroom and that's pretty much it. I guess it's the maximum i can get from a laptop like this.
Thank you all for your replies, you were very helpful. ^_^
 

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Those aren't abnormal for that model laptop.
 
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