My CPU reaches 81 degrees Celsius after playing GTA V for 3 minutes!Please help me!

[Melvis]

And it is declared as a true gaming laptop as I said,right?

Yeah I think so, its not really any different from more modern ones really, just has less "bling" otherwise still has good specs like other gaming laptops in that $1000-2000 price range.

 

[HiTech_32]

I have a similar laptop to your and it the one in my "system specs " and what i have done to keep the temps down is one I have a laptop cooling pad and I used XTU https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24075/Intel-Extreme-Tuning-Utility-Intel-XTU- to under volt my i5 6300hq by .150 volts and I run ,my laptops system fans at 100% while gaming and i can normally keep it under 78 cels as long as it under 26.66 cels ambient temperatures and NO vsync......when it is over 26.66 cels Ambient temperatures then i also activate Vsync with in the game and then it runs whisper cool! ALso worth noting if you see your CPU dropping down to like .800GHZ under load and the temps are under 82 cels then the system probably kicked in the C state because the mobo VRM's got too hot and this normally happens when the system fans where NOT turned upto 100% before gaming...good luck with the gaming and temps!

Thank you so much!
Just I would like to ask you,what do you think ,does turning the system fans to 100% shortens the lifespan of the fans?
And also how much time do you play without break with the fans turned up to 100%?

 

[erixx]

You got fantastic tips from all the guys above.

I could only add one: turn your game settings down.

And stop looking at temps

 

[DRDNA]

Thank you so much!
Just I would like to ask you,what do you think ,does turning the system fans to 100% shortens the lifespan of the fans?
And also how much time do you play without break?

people will say yes but I say NO NO No.... I have never seen a system fan fail on a clean laptop and i have been doing this for a year and a half and with many many many long 3 to 4 hours long gaming sessions and the fan is still running strong. I also use to do repairs and only fan fails I saw on laptops was because they were full of dust and cigarette tar.

 

[HiTech_32]

people will say yes but I say NO NO No.... I have never seen a system fan fail on a clean laptop and i have been doing this for a year and a half and with many many many long 3 to 4 hours long gaming sessions and the fan is still riunning strong. I also use to do repairs and only fan fails I saw on laptops was because they were full of dust and cigarette tar.

Thank you so much!

 

[Komshija]

Nothing new for laptops which generally have terrible cooling. It reminds me of Dell's laptops (my included).

You can replace the stock thermal paste with something better like Arctic MX-4 and stock thermal pads (if there are any) with Arctic Cooling 6 W/mk. That shouldn't be too expensive. Make two small wooden wedges/legs (1-1,5 cm in height) and position them right under the rear rubber "leg". All that will decrease temperatures if done properly.

Return everything to stock voltages.

 

[DRDNA]

Make two small wooden wedges/legs (1-1,5 cm in height) and position them right under the rear rubber "leg". All that will decrease temperatures if done properly.

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oh yes good point! Also make sure the underbellies vents are not blocked by a lap or anything if your not using a cooling pad.

 

[RCoon]

1. You are on a laptop, a business 1,they have garbage cooling and cramped space

2. Your room temperatures determine how cool any computer runs.

You have 6 choices.
Read a Book on how to build, troubleshoot and repair pcs and laptops.
Safest bet would be to take to a shop.
Get a laptop cooler.
Get a Gaming Laptop.
Build a Gaming PC.
Did I mention, Take to shop.
Quit screwing with computers and get a Console.

If you're incapable of being helpful, don't bother posting in the first place. To say I'm getting well and truly sick of your behaviour is an understatement.

Sort it out.

 

[Komshija]

I'll take a photo of my solution when I got home from work and attach it in Ghetto Mods (here: https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/ghetto-mods.55387/ ), so people could get a general idea how it's done and how it should look like. It's easy to make and it is effective.

 

[jboydgolfer]

And it is declared as a true gaming laptop as I said,right?

It is classified as a gaming laptop.

Oddly enough ,it's fairly similar to the image this person who said it wasn't a gaming laptop posted. It's got a GTX 960 if the specs I found were correct , if that doesn't make it a gaming laptop I don't know what does. Certainly not being labeled with three letters (rog) that instantly increases its price by $500 doesn't make it one, unless of course you're a sucker

That's not a gaming laptop

THIS is a gaming laptop :
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A gaming laptop is THICK and HEAVY because it need COOLING for high performance hardware.

At the end of the day 80°C isnt unheard of for a laptop (while gaming) with the hardware yours has. You could possibly bring it to tech shop ,and have some thermalpaste that is more effective put in there ,but otherwise those temperatures are pretty indicative of what they should be

 

[HiTech_32]

oh yes good point! Also make sure the underbellies vents are not blocked by a lap or anything if your not using a cooling pad.

The laptop had a dust filter located on the air intake, and I removed it because many owners of this laptop model had also removed it because it blocked the air to enter the laptop!

Here is the proof:

And I substituted it with a tiny medical drape!

Edit :I put the drape on the outside of the laptop!

And I also use a cooling pad!

 

[Bill_Bright]

The airflow isn't the issue,the vents are clean and the fans are fine too.

Air flow is always an issue with notebooks. Consider the fact a tower case with lots of large fans that create a powerful "flow" of cool air through the case, plus a huge CPU heatsink fan assembly to remove the CPU's heat can be challenged to keep the system properly cooled. So it is no wonder notebooks struggle. Beside battery consumption, thermal issues inherent with notebooks is why both AMD and Intel have processors designated for "mobile" use.

Keeping the vents and fans clean is great, but sadly, most notebooks are not designed so users can easily expose the full innards for a thorough cleaning. That's why, IMO, calling any notebook a "gaming" or "desktop replacement" notebook is really just marketing gimmick. They can build the power of a PC into a notebook, but not the cooling. The better "gaming" notebooks end up needing cooling docking stations and then you have to wonder, are they really "mobile" computers anymore?

Also note that a processor can go from cool to over-heated in just a few clock cycles. And that 6700HQ can run at 3.5 Billion clock cycles per second! So 3 minutes is a very long time for a processor.

That said, according to the Intel ark specs for your processor, that processor has a maximum Tjunction rating of 100°C. So you do have quite a bit of wiggle room left.

 

[HiTech_32]

Air flow is always an issue with notebooks. Consider the fact a tower case with lots of large fans that create a powerful "flow" of cool air through the case, plus a huge CPU heatsink fan assembly to remove the CPU's heat can be challenged to keep the system properly cooled. So it is no wonder notebooks struggle. Beside battery consumption, thermal issues inherent with notebooks is why both AMD and Intel have processors designated for "mobile" use.

Keeping the vents and fans clean is great, but sadly, most notebooks are not designed so users can easily expose the full innards for a thorough cleaning. That's why, IMO, calling any notebook a "gaming" or "desktop replacement" notebook is really just marketing gimmick. They can build the power of a PC into a notebook, but not the cooling. The better "gaming" notebooks end up needing cooling docking stations and then you have to wonder, are they really "mobile" computers anymore?

Also note that a processor can go from cool to over-heated in just a few clock cycles. And that 6700HQ can run at 3.5 Billion clock cycles per second! So 3 minutes is a very long time for a processor.

That said, according to the Intel ark specs for your processor, that processor has a maximum Tjunction rating of 100°C. So you do have quite a bit of wiggle room left.

I am thinking about to start using the Extreme Cooling feature of my laptop while gaming,it turns the fans up to 100% !

But I care about the fans lifespan!

 

[Vayra86]

I am thinking about to start using the Extreme Cooling feature of my laptop while gaming,it turns the fans up to 100% !

But I care about the fans lifespan!

Fan speed can only do so much, usually going to extreme speeds only shaves off a few degrees C, its absolutely not a linear relationship between fan speed / temp. Most laptops carry radial fans and they are built for higher RPMs (because they usually run at high RPM due to less air moved per 'round', the 'blades' are tiny). What matters more is the ambient temperature, or the 'air they can draw in'. Any degrees C cooler ambient will result in a linear reduction of temps of the hardware. This is why you see some reviews measure temperatures in 'C above ambient'; they show a graph with 25 C in it, which means the component runs 25 C hotter than your ambient temperature is at any time.

About 'true' gaming laptops... only a really fat one with even fatter ánd well implemented cooling can be considered a powerhouse. The rest is throttle mania and sells on spec lists but not on everything else. Basically this means there are a small handful of real gaming laptops in the absolute top of the product stack and the rest IMHO should be avoided.

 

[Bill_Bright]

But I care about the fans lifespan!

Fans are cheap. While a properly working CPU is able to protect itself by throttling back in speed, or shutting down completely before actual damage occurs, there are MANY other components inside your notebook that are heat sensitive too that need proper cooling. If they over-heat, they can be damaged. Then it is new motherboard time. Do you care more about protecting your motherboard? Or your fans?

 

[HiTech_32]

My new question to all of you is what do you think about using the fans at 100% while gaming,and for how much time without break?

 

[Vayra86]

The answers are already in the thread. Read.

 

[Bill_Bright]

for how much time without break?

How is anybody supposed to know when a fan (or any device) will fail? Until Man can make perfection 100% of the time, assume all fans will fail. Could be tomorrow, could be 10 years from now.

 

[HiTech_32]

How is anybody supposed to know when a fan (or any device) will fail? Until Man can make perfection 100% of the time, assume all fans will fail. Could be tomorrow, could be 10 years from now.

No,no ,you didn't get my question!
I wanted to ask about for how long game sessions per day to use the fans at their maximum,is approximately safe for the fans?

 

[trparky]

I've always been of thought that the words "gaming" and "notebook" are two words that should never be used together in the same sentence.

 

[dorsetknob]

what do you think about using the fans at 100% while gaming,and for how much time without break?

yes fans at 100% while gaming as for how long do you Own a Stadium Buddy

 

[Bill_Bright]

No,no ,you didn't get my question!
I wanted to ask about for how long game sessions per day to use the fans at their maximum,is approximately safe for the fans?

My answers remain the same.

 

[Vya Domus]

I wanted to ask about for how long game sessions per day to use the fans at their maximum,is approximately safe for the fans?

No such metric exists , as far as I am concerned you can leave them at 100% all the time.

 

[yotano211]

That's not a gaming laptop

THIS is a gaming laptop :
View attachment 101116

A gaming laptop is THICK and HEAVY because it need COOLING for high performance hardware.

A gaming laptop doesnt have to be that thick or big. I had a Eurocom F5 with a i7 7700k running at 4.8 at max with temps at 89C, it wasnt that thick or heavy. It weighed about 6.7lb. It usually ran at 4.5ghz.

 

[unclewebb]

Do it in the bios. If there is no setting, that means it is not supported.

The 6th Gen Skylake and later Intel CPUs all support Speed Shift. You do not need an option in the bios to enable it. Speed Shift can be enabled in any OS including Linux and Windows 7 and up. It is not a Windows 10 only feature.

An EPP setting of 0 should be used for maximum performance and is similar to the Windows High Performance power plan. An EPP setting of 80 is similar to the Windows Balanced power profile. The default EPP setting is usually 128.

Intel rates the 6700HQ to be able to run reliably up to 100°C so no worries.
https://ark.intel.com/products/88967/Intel-Core-i7-6700HQ-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_50-GHz

70°C, 80°C, 90°C really doesn't matter to the CPU. Intel designed it to run at full speed at any temperature as long as it is less than 100°C.