If that's the case then there was something wrong with it right out of the box, I've only had my laptop for about 4 months and it shut itself down on the first day. Which is a shame cause I paid for it to have good thermal paste applied.
I don't know about Intel but my Ryzen 7 4800H had the same overheating problem. Was at 40% load according to GamingCenter and was hitting 80-90 degrees to the point where the overheat protection would kick in and turn off my laptop.
Thankfully I've just found a video that shows you a way to...
I chose the exact same specification except I made my M.2 ssd a 2TB one instead, I'm really glad you wrote this review because I was sceptical at how it would turn out since this will be my first gaming setup. Now I can't wait for it to arrive. :)