Question Is this normal for heat?

[SAVAGE907]

I was stress testing my newly acquired refurbished Acer Nitro 5 laptop and seen some high temperatures in my CPU. It has a Intel Core i5 8300H and a 1050ti. the GPU was operating at full capacity and never got over 160 F. But the CPU was really only using about 30% to 60% of its power and reached 204 F in less then 30 minutes. I had both of my fans maxed out the whole time too. And I haven't overclocked or done anything that might cause this. What do you think?

 

[Karadjgne]

1. Please don't use °F, that gets confusing, please use °C instead as that's the standard numeric for pc's worldwide.
160°F = 71°C
204°F = 96°C

2. What stress test? There's many that use forms of AVX technologies, far more than necessary and that'll give a false temp reading as 100% cpu load will read temps like it's at 130% ish.

3. It's a laptop. It's got very minimal cooling ability. 71°C with a load is pretty normal, it's actually low for some gaming loads, especially if the igpu is used. 96°C is very normal for any high stress app, but you probably saw evidence of thermal throttling if the cpu was only using 30-60% at 96°.

 

[julienruc]

Sadly, laptops are generally quite terrible when it comes to heat, especially when it comes to gaming in general.

Can you tell us what temps you're getting at both idle and whilst gaming? Along with usage %?