PCH Overheating...what does this mean?

[td30mott]

I just recently looked into why my laptop is running so hot lately. I opened it up and cleaned out all the dust as well as repasted the CPU & GPU. Using hwinfo64 I noticed there is a sensor called PCH Temperature running at 80 degrees idle and 92 degrees when playing games. Is this ok?

 

[prit87]

80 at idle is too much for PHC temps BTW what is your motherboard and the motherboard can get overheated if the case air circulation is not good..

 

[td30mott]

Thanks for answering prit87. I have a G53JW laptop, the cooling has always seemed pretty good, after repasting the gpu I got the max running temp back down to 85C. I'm not sure what the specific motherboard is called. What exactly is a PHC, what does it looked like? Is there something I can do to fix this?

 

[td30mott]

80 at idle is too much for PHC temps BTW what is your motherboard and the motherboard can get overheated if the case air circulation is not good..

Hope you are still here 🙁

 

[prit87]

Sorry for the late reply....PCH is the chipset component of your motherboard. It tends to run a bit hotter than processors, especially at idle. Anything above 80 Celsius is considered high for chipsets, and beyond 90 Celsius is considered critical.

 

[td30mott]

Sorry for the late reply....PCH is the chipset component of your motherboard. It tends to run a bit hotter than processors, especially at idle. Anything above 80 Celsius is considered high for chipsets, and beyond 90 Celsius is considered critical.

so what do I do about it?

 

[prit87]

have u overclocked something ???

 

[td30mott]

no nothing

 

[prit87]

http://www.amazon.com/Thermaltake-Massive23-Notebook-Oversized-CLN0015/dp/B003ZUXXWO/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1407956027&sr=8-3&keywords=laptop+cooling+fan

use something like this it will help your lappy to cool down...