[SOLVED] What temperature is too high for Nvidia MX130 2GB?

[dahmad]

I have an i7 10th Gen laptop with Gefore MX130 2GB graphics card. While I am playing games like Battlefield 4 or Mafia 3, the temperature goes up to about 85-90 degrees. Is this normal for my laptop and GPU? If so, then what temperature is too high and should be avoided?

 

[JWNoctis]

Most laptops have poor thermal dissipation. For a relatively new laptop, if the fan intakes and exhausts are not obstructed, and the fans themselves are blowing plenty of warm air, then they are doing the best they can do.

You may consider dusting if it's more than a year old or so, or if it had seen a lot of usage in dusty places, like the average bedroom. There are plenty of guides elsewhere for that.

There are cooling stands available, which may or may not help depending on the design of both the stand and your laptop.

Modern hardware have built-in thermal protection: They will throttle if they get too hot, and (for the CPU at least) trigger an immediate shutdown if that doesn't help. Such features are designed to make the laptop last long enough through the warranty period, and hopefully until it was replaced by its owner. Actual immediate overheat damage is rare, but not unheard-of.