Ideal temp for gpu and cpu

[ragnar28]

I recently got a game which was quite cpu tintesive, after playing it for a while my laptop started heating up to the point of where I though I could smell burning.
I stopped and monitored the heat and saw that with CPUID monitor both my cpu and gpu was sitting at 90C now im not sure if theres a limitation to the thermo ( on how far it can measure )
because it never went above the 90. Most of what I read on online searched say 90 is bad. People are talking about running at 70 degrees Celsius as for intensive gaming.

Is this true? I have done what I can cleaning out the laptop, cooling pad but i dont think there is a way I can stay at 70. Is this the norm? Im happy to frop the game as too much for my comp rather than damaging anything

 

[ubuysa]

It depends on the model of CPU and GPU, if you do a web search for them you'll find that Tmax (or Tjunc) temperatures quoted. They are the maximum safe temperature for that particular model.

That said, 90C doesn't sound excessive for most modern CPUs/GPUs and you won't smell burning if they get too hot. If you're smelling burning I would advise that you stop using the laptop at all until it's been looked at by an expert.

I'm assuming this isn't a PC Specialist built laptop?

 

[SpyderTracks]

I would say 90c on the cpu is to be expected and well within operational temperatures for the CPU

But the GPU shouldn't be hitting that high, should be nearer 83c max I'd say, otherwise it will hit thermal throttling.

I would suggest there's an issue with the GPU cooling specifically.

Can you post your full specs?

70c will never be achieved on a modern laptop, that's dreaming.

 

[ragnar28]

Nope not my main this is one of my older guys lying around I was planning to give it to my kid as a starter.

I found that my fan was indeed clogged after opening up the whole laptop. I also decided to get the thermal paste and clean the old stuff off and re apply the new, the old paste was cracking off.

Man what a difference. I cannot even hear my fan, gpu, core temperatures are resting just below 60 degrees celcuis. When I run something cpu intensive a game or even editors it only touched 80s in the 4 cores, and the gpu and then the fan brings it down quite quickly. ( this is what Cpuid is telling me )
Quite happy with this.

The laptop in question is a old one stock standard HP g7 I think. I know its a i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHZ, 16gb ram, i think intel 4000 onboard graphic card.

Was probably just some time for tlc.

 

[SpyderTracks]

Nope not my main this is one of my older guys lying around I was planning to give it to my kid as a starter.

I found that my fan was indeed clogged after opening up the whole laptop. I also decided to get the thermal paste and clean the old stuff off and re apply the new, the old paste was cracking off.

Man what a difference. I cannot even hear my fan, gpu, core temperatures are resting just below 60 degrees celcuis. When I run something cpu intensive a game or even editors it only touched 80s in the 4 cores, and the gpu and then the fan brings it down quite quickly. ( this is what Cpuid is telling me )
Quite happy with this.

The laptop in question is a old one stock standard HP g7 I think. I know its a i5-3210M CPU @ 2.50GHZ, 16gb ram, i think intel 4000 onboard graphic card.

Was probably just some time for tlc.

ah, that's MUCH better! Very pleased.

Any laptop needs a repaste and clean out internally once in a while.

I'm really pleased it made such an improvement! It's amazing how many people think the laptop is old and will never work as it once did and so bin it.

I personally do a clean out every 6 months by exposing the internals and blowing some compressed air through the fans and fins. Then I repaste about once every 2 years also.