Laptop i7 reaching high temperatures while gaming

[jordyvanekelen1]

Hello! I was playing The Witcher 3, and I noticed my laptop's (HP Gaming Pavilion -15-cx0963nd) CPU (i7-8750H) reaching very high temperatures like 95 degrees on some cores, and at that point I closed the game.

Strangely enough lowering the settings of the game makes no big difference in temperature, should I be worried and is there a way to prevent this any other way? It can't be too dusty I reckon as it's just a few weeks old. I also ran IntelProcessor Diagnostic tool and there were no problems found, although it did say the max. temperature is set to 105 degrees. Isn't that too high? I don't know much about hardware so I'd be glad if somebody could give some advice.

 

[shmoochie]

Sadly, that is the norm with laptops that have such hot processors. I will say that they are built to run hotter than desktops, so seeing temps in the 80s-90s is normal. One thing you could try is downloading Throttlestop and setting the max multiplier to something like 3.2 or 3.4. Laptops aren't really made to withstand boosted clocks for long periods of time which is what happens when you are playing witcher.

Another solution could be to buy high quality thermal pads and paste, and then take it into a tech to replace the stock stuff that Intel put in. That can potentially void the warranty though so you might want to talk to HP before going that route.

 

[jordyvanekelen1]

Sadly, that is the norm with laptops that have such hot processors. I will say that they are built to run hotter than desktops, so seeing temps in the 80s-90s is normal. One thing you could try is downloading Throttlestop and setting the max multiplier to something like 3.2 or 3.4. Laptops aren't really made to withstand boosted clocks for long periods of time which is what happens when you are playing witcher.

Another solution could be to buy high quality thermal pads and paste, and then take it into a tech to replace the stock stuff that Intel put in. That can potentially void the warranty though so you might want to talk to HP before going that route.

Thanks for your answer! Would you advise me to buy thermal pads/paste regardless? The temperatures seems to be 'relatively stable' around 95 degrees but wouldn't the system melt at 100 degrees (even though it says 105 degrees max)? Can it hurt in the long run to just let it run on 95 (presumed it's stable)?