if you have the laptop for a long time (i would say more than 3 years) and see a big difference in peformance since you bought it, you could try repasting the cpu (or if youre not comfortable letting a repair centre do it).

you could also look if the cheap cooling pad and the laptop conflict in the airflow direction. f.e. if your cooling pad takes air out of the laptop from the bottom and the laptop has an intake on the bottom then it has no air to cool itself with. the opposite effect isnt too good either as the air being pushed out of the laptop has nowhere to go and is pushed into the laptop by the pad itself. looking into that is very important as different brands of laptops (and cooling pads) use different cooling methods and the conflict in the airflow direction could increase your temps significantly. solution: the cooling pad may have a switch for airflow direction. if it doesnt then you need to open the cooling pad and flip the radiators if thats even possible. i did that in my cooling pad and it helped a lot.

Get a monitor and flip the laptop upside down with the screen closed to allow the vents max airflow /srs

Put a book or a folded bunch of napkins under the back to elevate it. Probably all it needs is a bit more unrestricted air

Cleaning the fans and heatsink from dust it's a game changer.

Hell yeah dude!

Though I would consider turning the fan around, the intakes are on the bottom of the laptop so you want the fan blowing fresh air into the box not blowing it out.

Why do so many people still seem to struggle with the temps?? Mine never goes above ~85 C while gaming.

you just need a gap from the bottom I.E it sitting on the desk and not on a blanket. The box and intake fan (now that you turned it around) are prob still choking it off.

You over there laptop gaming like a barbarian when you could be:

https://preview.redd.it/txajryf1f3we1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e505a3edf9eb684d361064f9166853139ae4c3fb

This is the first thing I thought of, Oh Yeah!

As long as it doesn't get TOO hot, it shouldn't be an issue.

If you've tried the fan pads, the only other things really left are other ways to increase air flow, like directed external fans to push hot air away or opening it up and upgrading the heat sinks. Both would be cheap.

Depends on how comfortable you are opening the case. The heatsink fins should be cleaned & the thermal paste on the cpu & gpu should be replaced with new paste. One more thing is to get an external monitor & keyboard and actually place the laptop upside down. That way the fans are always clear for more airflow.

Big problem in the methodolgy: the time the stress test was run for wasn't specified. Overheating for laptops becomes a problem when the surrounding environment of the laptop (wooden table) is heated over a long period of time, causing the air to be preheated by the environment before entering the laptop. In my case this takes around 1h30 before the laptop starts throttling hard. The fan pads totally eliminated the problem, the table was still at room temperature regardless of duration.

Underclock it a bit, or set the Driver software to slightly lower aim values (heat, Power, FPS)

Clean it (if you are technically able to do that)

Replace the cooling paste with Liquid metal (if you are technically able to do that)

The trays you already use

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If that all doesn't work you need a Desktop with decent cooling

I can tell you probably won't be comfortable opening it up.

Instead, go buy a can of compressed air. Spray it into any vents you have on your laptop.

Good chance this will fix your problem.

You can get a pad for a car driver's seat that keeps your butt from getting too hot; it allows ventilation. Could you put the laptop on something like that?

These are the things I would do.

Undervolt the GPU and CPU. Take it apart and clean it. Reapply thermal paste to the CPU and GPU

To start with, keep it simple. Clean the laptop and change thermal paste . If you don't understand what or how, just search it at youtube, theres hundreds of similar videos.

I have the same brand and the same problem. It felt like i can cook an egg with the heat of my laptop. Gosh.

Ok personally I would just open it and clean out the air that itself should be a huge improvement and reduce your overheating issue. And thermal paste like some others have said is a good idea. You get some off of Amazon but you don't need to replace it when opening the laptop. But definitely it is recommended and very simple to do.

There should be four screws holding the heatsink to the CPU. Unscrew those (usually they are captive so you don't have to worry about losing them) and then use, preferably alcohol to clean off the old thermal paste and replace with new thermal paste. There isn't really a right amount but there is definitely a too much. If you want, about the size or a rice grain. And if you don't know what thermal paste to get, you can go for Arctic Silver.

Hopefully this was helpful. If you need help just ask.

TL:DR/ I recommend you open and clean it out

clean the all cpu fan dust and fan must be roted..if this is all is good...check the graphic chip is there...if graphic is there...and is it convertable....try it disable graphic...

Laptops often get quite hot what are the temps when gaming? Also do not use a wet cloth when using electronics on. You could easily kill it by causing a short circuit. Do not use water around or especially near the bottom where it has a clear path to the motherboard

Lol, you are killing the laptop,not slowly ,it may die in a week

You are blocking the airflow with tissue and you are pushing moisture inside the laptop.If moisture condenses inside it will instantly kill the part it touches

Clean the fans,use a good quality cooling pad

If it's not a gaming laptop then it's not surprising that it heats up? Minecraft used to heat the hell out of this old HP I used back in the day, there is no magic fix and especially the one you have used. My advice would be to get a laptop that can run games efficiently

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Well its not a gaming laptop so it does not have the cooling capabilities and good airflow.

All you can do is undervolt if possible, thermal repaste ,and clean out the fans.

repaste thermal paste, blow the dust out your heatsink, don't use your laptop on the bed/carpet

if all else fails, i'll just give up and decrease my cpu clock speed

edit: i decided to check my own laptop after seeing this post. i have a dell vostro 3400 with an i5-1135G7, exactly the same tdp and generation as yours. i keep it under 90degC by applying PTM7950 and set the maximum power to 18W.

this model is so crap that i cannot use the full 28W without some sort of extreme thermal issues, i'll pay attention to cooling next time i buy a laptop 😔

You don't fix it. This is typical behavior for a poorly built laptop. You can try repasting, but at the end of the day, the cooling is probably terrible, and the actual benefits of repasting are usually overstated.

Do make sure your vents are clear.

I have two laptops from the Tiger Lake era. You can lower the temps by 15-20C by doing the following: Replace the thermal paste with Arctic MX-4, blow out the heat sink grills and fans with compressed air. Change the PL1/PL2 with throttlestop or QuickCPU to 20-28 for PL1 and 35-45 for PL2. You need to play with the PLs / bench test with something like Geekbench to find a balance between performance and heat. 20/35 will have lower temps but slightly less performance. 28/45 will probably get you max performance but temps will be higher. I think the laptops come with stock settings of 60 or 64. Dell sets them way too high.

Details? What laptop? Where is it sitting? What you doing at the time it gets hot?

Have you checked the fan and vents for dust buildup?

Just use good thermal paste, like goooood paste(like noctua nth1?)... and dont forget to repaste the VRMs with some thermal putty.

I had a similar situation an older Acer Nitro 5 (10750H/GTx1650) and I glazed the paste like a cake but we noticed the putty (pink stuff on VRMs) was mummy dust and didnt bother much to fix it at the time and gave it a push. The cpu was constantly at 95-100 C, but the worst part is when cpu stopped being under load, cooling down took 5-10 MINUTES just to cool down to normal temps, 5-10min of jet noise.

So yeah. Thermal putty on VRMs. I am waiting for that laptop to come back to me, I oredered some Upsiren Pro

not undervolt, underclock

i'm sure there's some applications that allow this on windows, or you can just go to the bios and set the fixed frequency

disabling intel turbo boost might helps

If anybody was curious of this Laptop model, it is a Dell Inspiron 5578 2-in-1.

It seems like Dell learned from their mistake because the next generation of laptops have intake vents right where the fan is

Did you remove the fan and clean the layer of lint the accumulates between the fan and the heat exchanger? This build-up of debris happens to all laptops and blocks airflow.

It did actually. Max temperatures dropped 10°C and the fan doesn't sound like a jet engine anymore. Placing on a flat surface you can also hear air movement when the fan kicks on.

If you wanna go full on, gently tap out the leading and trailing edges of the holes to make them into rudimentary louvers for even more air extraction.

>only guide being the dust circle the fan left behind

That's... actually a pretty good guide, it marks where the fan is blowing at. Good job.

If it got hot enough to throttle, this is accurate

- Dust it off with a canned air spray

- use a cooling pad with extra fans under it

- open it and change the paste.

This comes down to a physics problem. Your super thin laptop has parts (you didn't say which model of 4K Razer Blade Pro 17.3") that can produce upwards of 100+ watts of heat. There's no magic that can be done to expel all that heat, and the tiny little fans can only do so much. So you have a few options:

• Use the laptop in a colder environment
• Run the fans faster (may not be configurable)
• Make less heat

As far as making less heat - You can try to limit the TDP:

• Might be able to set CPU TDP in Windows power settings
• Can definitely limit CPU TDP with Intel XTU (I'd also undervolt to reduce the performance offset of TDP reduction)
• Manually underclock the GPU

If ur not doing intensive gaming, try lowering ur processor power, do you know how to do it?

Let me just start with, a cooling pad isnt going to make a difference / any significant change. ESPECIALLY when you're reaching the temps that you're hitting. I just want put this out because that's literally the copy and paste you'll see around the gaming laptop sub and I trurely find it amazing that ppl say this first and for most. I mention this because you're very likely to receive this advice from every other single person who responds to your post, (ie- the one moderator who commented).

Second, changing your thermal paste, elevating your laptop, playing in a cool temp room, cleaning air vents/inside of laptop, and undervolting your CPU/GPU are really the one the best things you can do.

I noticed you mentioned you and a thin and light laptop (w/ 4K) those laptops are notoriously known to over heat due to the design and small dense compact chassis and cooling estate.

Your cooler is bad. Maybe the heat pipes have a manufacturing defect and leaked the vapor that is supposed to help carry heat from your CPU to your fans. Replace the entire heatsink assembly if thermal paste re-application and fan cleaning did not help.

Everybody in this thread talking about how Intel sucks or Windows sucks isn’t paying attention. Your picture shows 5w power use currently and a maximum of 12w power use. That is between 30%-80% of what your processor’s TDP and it already hit the hard thermal limit of 105C. Maybe Intel has issues with high power usage on average and the newer CPUs will exceed their TDP which really kills battery life, but even a laptop with an underperforming cooler should hit the CPU’s TDP for a little while before throttling. This is not normal even for an Intel CPU and a laptop with a crappy cooler. That cooler is straight up broken.

No turbo. Undervolting. Repasting. Fan curve (if os allows). Lift the back of the laptop a couple cm or 1 inch. Lower the graphics. Play in the fridge. Laptop stands with fans (they do almost nothing)

I read the comments but got no answers, so here are my questions:

How many pipes does this laptop have, how many fans?

What are the specs, given that model is broad? Actual CPU/GPU specs.

What thermal paste was used and are there any thermal pads on VRM/VRAM, this last is only if there is a dedicated GPU?

How old is this laptop from purchase date?

Were it's fan or fans ever cleaned to include heatsink fins?

Let's start with these questions first and we will pinpoint your culprit.

Repaste and do an undervolt on cpu with THROTTLESTOP, i’m using it, stable 70-80 full load and no fps drop or performance drop

Disable turbo, and set the max ghz lower

https://www.techpowerup.com/download/techpowerup-throttlestop/

Edit: Dont disable turbo my bad, this will keep at minimun speed always, jut set the max speed Ghz a couple of digits