Defiance Series: 17.3" Temps

[lewistimms]

Update after playing I am bread for 15 mins. Still not best pleased and am waiting to hear from PCS on Monday when they're open.

 

[de4life]

Whilst the average temps are nothing to be worried about, I assume the laptop is maintaining them through thermal throttling which is going to impact your clock speed. I wouldn't consider that an acceptable performance considering the cost of the laptop.

 

[lewistimms]

Whilst the average temps are nothing to be worried about, I assume the laptop is maintaining them through thermal throttling which is going to impact your clock speed. I wouldn't consider that an acceptable performance considering the cost of the laptop.

Exactly as I thought! We will see what the support team says tomorrow. As before I’ll keep this thread updated

 

[Oussebon]

assume the laptop is maintaining them through thermal throttling which is going to impact your clock speed. I wouldn't consider that an acceptable performance considering the cost of the laptop.

Time was I'd have agreed, however, a degree of throttling due to power and/or thermal limits is extremely common on 8th and 9th Gen laptop CPUs. This is probably not too surprising when Intel have been using CPUs like the 6700HQ on a 45W TDP, then bumped frequencies and added 50% cores on basically the same architecture. With the same TDP.

See: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/reported-throttling-on-8th-gen-mobile-chips.60205/

And see: https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/m...-recoil-ii-i7-8750h-gtx-1060-laptop-review/3/

Starting with the CPU, a peak of just 81C is a top result, and that is only furthered by the fact that this temperature came with the CPU clock speed holding at 3.1GHz across all cores. The [MSI] GS65, for instance, could only push all 6 cores to 2.8GHz, and even then the CPU still peaked at 85C.

Of course it's a question of degrees (no pun..). If it's throttling down to base frequencies under gaming load and/or melting itself in the high 90s (as yours seem to be), I wouldn't consider that acceptable either. But say you repaste and see temps in, say, the high 80s during intensive gaming and frequencies only a little over 3GHz, that's not entirely uncommon.