Is 60°C at browsing safe ??

[shivammangla]

Hello. I have a Asus R510JX (X550JX) laptop with i7 4720hq and gtx950m. My laptop was having some problem and the asus guy changed the mobo. I think he was a newbie and he didn't removed the thermal paste from cpu fan which was not replaced (fan was not attached to mobo, just joined with some screws). What my question is that my laptop on idle sometimes touched 50°C temp and stays at 60°C when browsing with 2 tabs opened in chrome with nothing else running. So should I reapply thermal paste ??
Even if I only clean fan, thermal paste has to applied compulsory to both gpu and cpu becoz of my shitty laptop design. Can u suggest any thermal paste ??

 

[Ecky]

Many laptops run warm at idle because they shut the fan off to safe power and reduce noise. 60c will not harm it. More important is load temperature - your CPU will throttle at 100c, and if it's throttling under load, you may want to consider re-seating the heatsink with fresh paste.

 

[shivammangla]

Many laptops run warm at idle because they shut the fan off to safe power and reduce noise. 60c will not harm it. More important is load temperature - your CPU will throttle at 100c, and if it's throttling under load, you may want to consider re-seating the heatsink with fresh paste.

Yes. My laptop also doesn't run fan at small load. But is their anyway to make it run everytime (for me noise and battery backup is not problem)

 

[Ecky]

The only thing that would serve to do is run your battery down and wear out the fan faster. These CPUs are designed to run at high temperatures. If you really want to (and I assure you it will do no good), there may be a setting in BIOS to "always run fan".

EDIT: To make a bad car analogy, it's like saying, "My engine always runs hot, almost 200 degrees!" when that is a normal, expected operating temperature for them.

EDIT2: In Windows power profiles, changing your fan profile from passive to active may also achieve this.