Greetings,
I am rather curious about one thing that I have noticed on my laptop recently.
While a gamer - sort of -, I'm also a temperature enthusiast and can't stop checking that my values are in normal range. As such, you can expect me to look at temp software and touch my laptop all day long. With this occasion, I noticed this interesting thing that I can't seem to explain.
So, first of all, for some specs and details:
The laptop is an Acer Aspire 7 (A715) with .. from what I recall, a metallic (I think Aluminum case) - i5-7300HQ 2.5 up to 3.5 Boost (however, I manually underclocked it because it wouldn't go under 3.4.-3.4 even when browsing or watching a video and that got me worried - how: I basically set the Maximum Processor State in Power Options to 99%; you can tell me if I should keep on doing this or not; if I leave it on 100% the laptop seems to get also hotter even though the performance while gaming or doing any other task is literally the same; and I mean, literally), and the GPU is a GTX 1050 2GB, with 4GB DDR4 of RAM to which I added another 8.
I also run with a secondary screen - a 24 inch I think AOC monitor connected to the laptop. The laptop itself is plugged in all the time and stands on a 5-fan cooler with 6 speed ranges (I usually keep it on level 3, quite cool air).
I used Core Temp and now currently using HWiNFO for temperature measurements. Since I recently started to play a more demanding game, I booted these two more often.
Normal gameplay (as in not a lot of things happening on the screen) sends my CPU and GPU max into 75 degrees with an average of 69-70 (from start of game until end of session). Naturally, when more things start happening, the CPU gets as high as 81-82 (but not higher) and pretty much the same happens with the GPU (80-81 and not higher), even if the intense sessions last for a long time.
So, as you can see, my temps are in quite normal ratings - some forums said that both Intel and nVidia come with a power cap, so to say, of maximum 100 degrees, while some said that an nVidia GPU is set for a max tj of 85 degrees. I'm still in the limits.
These being said, my main issue is the fact that one particular part of the cover, namely above the laptop's keyboard - from F5 to F12 - gets extremely hot, up to a point where I cannot hold my fingers there without going yikes. The laptop is around 2 years of age, and has always been on a cooler and with me with external mouse and keyboard. That part of the laptop - above the keyboard - is pretty much the only part of the laptop that gets hot. I should also mention the rather bad design of the laptop - there are no side vents, only on the laterals of the back of the case that are slightly tipped outwards.The air coming out from those vents seems to be quite cool.
So, my question is - what could be causing the case to get that hot and, if I continue with my gaming (because it gets quite hot even if the temps stay within the 70-75 mark) will this affect the laptop's health?
Feel free to ask any other questions that may be of help for you and thank you in advance to those that took their time to answer me!
edit 1: I forgot to mention that the case part in question does cool down quite fast, surprisingly, and that the cover in that area doesn't have any marks, heat signs, and so on, even though I've been basically gaming on this laptop since I got it, with mostly demanding games.
edit 2: I always forget something: there are little to no effects on performance while high temps or scalding hot case; I can freely watch an YouTube video, browse stuff on my laptop's screen, with the usual slower loading, of course, but nothing major that would get me annoyed.
I am rather curious about one thing that I have noticed on my laptop recently.
While a gamer - sort of -, I'm also a temperature enthusiast and can't stop checking that my values are in normal range. As such, you can expect me to look at temp software and touch my laptop all day long. With this occasion, I noticed this interesting thing that I can't seem to explain.
So, first of all, for some specs and details:
The laptop is an Acer Aspire 7 (A715) with .. from what I recall, a metallic (I think Aluminum case) - i5-7300HQ 2.5 up to 3.5 Boost (however, I manually underclocked it because it wouldn't go under 3.4.-3.4 even when browsing or watching a video and that got me worried - how: I basically set the Maximum Processor State in Power Options to 99%; you can tell me if I should keep on doing this or not; if I leave it on 100% the laptop seems to get also hotter even though the performance while gaming or doing any other task is literally the same; and I mean, literally), and the GPU is a GTX 1050 2GB, with 4GB DDR4 of RAM to which I added another 8.
I also run with a secondary screen - a 24 inch I think AOC monitor connected to the laptop. The laptop itself is plugged in all the time and stands on a 5-fan cooler with 6 speed ranges (I usually keep it on level 3, quite cool air).
I used Core Temp and now currently using HWiNFO for temperature measurements. Since I recently started to play a more demanding game, I booted these two more often.
Normal gameplay (as in not a lot of things happening on the screen) sends my CPU and GPU max into 75 degrees with an average of 69-70 (from start of game until end of session). Naturally, when more things start happening, the CPU gets as high as 81-82 (but not higher) and pretty much the same happens with the GPU (80-81 and not higher), even if the intense sessions last for a long time.
So, as you can see, my temps are in quite normal ratings - some forums said that both Intel and nVidia come with a power cap, so to say, of maximum 100 degrees, while some said that an nVidia GPU is set for a max tj of 85 degrees. I'm still in the limits.
These being said, my main issue is the fact that one particular part of the cover, namely above the laptop's keyboard - from F5 to F12 - gets extremely hot, up to a point where I cannot hold my fingers there without going yikes. The laptop is around 2 years of age, and has always been on a cooler and with me with external mouse and keyboard. That part of the laptop - above the keyboard - is pretty much the only part of the laptop that gets hot. I should also mention the rather bad design of the laptop - there are no side vents, only on the laterals of the back of the case that are slightly tipped outwards.The air coming out from those vents seems to be quite cool.
So, my question is - what could be causing the case to get that hot and, if I continue with my gaming (because it gets quite hot even if the temps stay within the 70-75 mark) will this affect the laptop's health?
Feel free to ask any other questions that may be of help for you and thank you in advance to those that took their time to answer me!
edit 1: I forgot to mention that the case part in question does cool down quite fast, surprisingly, and that the cover in that area doesn't have any marks, heat signs, and so on, even though I've been basically gaming on this laptop since I got it, with mostly demanding games.
edit 2: I always forget something: there are little to no effects on performance while high temps or scalding hot case; I can freely watch an YouTube video, browse stuff on my laptop's screen, with the usual slower loading, of course, but nothing major that would get me annoyed.
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