Question CPU spiking to 100c for half a second then back to normal

[LucaVK7]

I recently got a lenovo legion 5 pro i7 14650hx 4060, and randomly while gaming and keeping HWINFO up, I'd see my max temperatures on cores 1 and 3 reaching 99c and 100c so I kept an eye and noticed that they're spiking to that for a second before going back to normal, it only happens with these certain cores as well whkle being on balanced mode with ai, I ran cinebench full core test and haven't reached anything more than 83c so I'm not sure.

 

[Viking2121]

Do you have another piece of software open that also can tell your CPU temp? Sometimes that can cause some weird readings as they conflict.


But yeah for a laptop with a 24 thread CPU that can boost up to 5.2ghz, yeah thats gonna happen, you can repaste the CPU, would involve tearing the laptop a part somewhat, but that probably wont help a lot, as long as it don't sit at 100C on all cores consistently like during gaming or stress testing, peaking to 100C on a core here and there is not going to hurt anything at all, thats probably the cores that aggressively boost to 5.2ghz with light loads. Thats a lot to pack in a tiny laptop CPU with not much room for cooling it. So I honestly wouldn't worry.


Good Luck!