i5-7200U high temperatures

[jeppe986]

Hello guys, I just got a Lenovo ideapad 710s with a i5-7200U cpu, and the temps on it are surprisingly high. I was playing hearthstone while I was running a windows defender scan, and temps reached 80 degrees celcius. Is this normal?

I measured using both speed fan and HW monitor.

Its often a very rapid rise in temp. It drops super fast as well. It can go from75C to 50C in like 15 seconds. Should I contact them, or am i worrying for no reason?

Thanks!

Edit: temps seem to be considerably higher in "balanced" than power saver.

 

[Ecky]

That CPU throttles at 100c, which is apparently what Intel considers to be the temperature threshold they should stay under to ensure it doesn't degrade and have a shortened lifespan. Many gaming laptops run 85-95c and have no issues.

"Power saver" prevents your CPU from reaching full clockspeed.

 

[lakimens]

Set it on high performance, that's where it runs at full power.
I don't think it should be that high.
I have a laptop with a i7-2670QM and GT540. These are the temperatures I used to play on. Sometimes I played while both of them throttled.
Now, my Sandy Bridge is 45W, this Kaby Lake is 7W, meaning it should run a lot cooler, don't you think so?
It won't damage your CPU, but I know the feeling when your laptop is very hot, to the point that it's uncomfortable to touch.
These are safe temperatures for laptops.

EDIT: If you're so worried about it, buy a cooling pad, it should help a little bit.

 

[jeppe986]

The laptop itself isnt warm at all. The only reason that i'm able to tell that its hot is because of speedfan.

I'm not worried per se. It's more wondering whether it can handle the higher temps. Its not even 24hrs old, so a cooling pad shouldnt be necessary. Thanks for the answers

Is it unsual the it jumps very quickly in temps? When cooling itll go from 65to 55 to 40 to 55 in a couple of seconds.

 

[lakimens]

If the laptop is not hot, then you're golden, it can handle high temps, just keep it on hard surfaces.
Soft surfaces can block the holes under your laptop and restrict airflow, if that happens the laptop will heat up much faster.

 

[jeppe986]

If the laptop is not hot, then you're golden, it can handle high temps, just keep it on hard surfaces.
Soft surfaces can block the holes under your laptop and restrict airflow, if that happens the laptop will heat up much faster.

Great. I was just concerned since my old laptop never got above 60ish degrees, and it was an intel cpu aswell.

 

[Hugo_Shebbeare]

As long as you are willing to void your warranty, then you can open up the laptop and make some adjustments that manufacturers are too cheap to include. There's barely any copper in laptops anymore, and you can see a foil even used instead of the real thing. So, instead of running a super hot laptop all the time, I broke off 9 plates from an old multi-sockete server copper heat sink, and used the thin heat dissipation plates within the case to stop the hot palms from the battery and hard drive (these thin plates came in handy on both sides of each). I also put a plate around the memory, and everywhere I could fit close to the CPU, even attaching more copper to the tiny band of copper they use in laptops currently. Thus, all this work to handle the heat and strengthen these cheap cases has produced a max temperature of 71c in full burn mode, power high perf, etc. Regular workstation usage avg is down to 40-50c range, which certainly doesn't feel at all uncomfortable since nicely contained by all the extra copper. Also, adding 8 large air vent holes to the bottom helped, as long as you use the proper filters to stop debris coming in....luckily, I cannibalized off an old XPS for this filter tape.