On my system monitor my laptop idles at 80+ degrees celsius

EDIT: strangely enough, it has a similar temperature on high load

EDIT2: Yes I think I will order thermal paste

  • y0din
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    32 days ago

    if you look at the CPU frequency at the high load you can see it’s clocked down which is a sign of overheating. it clocks down to prevent overheating because it’s unable to get sufficient cooling. you definitely have a cooling issue of some sort. it will only get slower and hotter until something breaks or it goes into thermal protection mode and shuts it self off.

  • Trinsec
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    32 days ago

    That’s a bit hot for idle, yes. Probably a good time to clean out the fans and apply new thermal paste.

    • AmonOP
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      22 days ago

      Thanks! Of course, the computer is of adequate retirement age (it’s going to turn 15 in August) or to be relegated to server duty, but it won’t hurt to make sure the thermals are all good.

      • Trinsec
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        72 days ago

        Addendum, that ‘similar temperatue on high load’ is because it’s thermal throttled at that point. See that it went from 2.9GHz to 1.6GHz. It won’t ever reach 100 degrees or close to that because of this safety feature.

  • AmonOP
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    22 days ago

    Thanks guys, I ordered thermal paste

  • cooljimy84
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    12 days ago

    Is it really that hot ? I.e. is it hot to touch where the cpu is or where the fan exhaust’s?

    • AmonOP
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      22 days ago

      The fan exhaust is hot and the fan is quite loud all the time.

      • @mybuttnolie@sopuli.xyz
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        32 days ago

        if it blows hot air, that means it successfully transfers heat off the cpu, so the blame is not entirely on the thermal paste (you should probably still change it though). clean the sink and the air intakes, laptops insides easily get tightly packed with dust.