CPU at 90°C

Question

Hello/Good evening, I'm new to the forum so I'm not really sure if I'm in the right category and I apologize in advance.  So here it is, I "recently" (6 months ago) bought a laptop,  Specs: Intel core i5 8th gen 2.3GHz (boostable up to 3GHz) 8GB RAM Geforce GTX 1050  I was able to play a few games without really having issues, but recently I downloaded Warzone and now the CPU starts to heat up a lot (93°C according to the game) and my disk has spikes up to 100% usage during the game. I tried to lower the disk usage but nothing works.  The game is playable at the end of the match but at the beginning I have many bugs, rollbacks and all with the graphics settings on minimum  It is also possible that my connection is causing the bugs but I'm not sure.  I fluctuate between 2 and 5Mb/s with an upload of 0.5Mb/s  This seems strange to me since I run games like Apex or GTA V with good graphics. I think I've provided enough info, thank you to those who will lend me a hand!

Kiilla · Accepted Answer

Here we see the information, the temperatures of your graphics card are good, but your CPU
is really overheating for just a game like Rocket League, 85° for only 18% usage.

Try cleaning the PC, dust in the ventilation grille can quickly clog it up.

If your HDD where the games are is (D), I suppose, try to free up some space; a disk that is too full is not good and you will experience freezes, and it makes it heat up. Defragment it, it will do it good; if I were you, I’d do a complete defragmentation and set it up to run overnight while you sleep, so it doesn’t block you.

Yes, I confirm never to defragment an SSD, it decreases its lifespan.

Be aware that R6 is a very demanding game; you need an i7 now to run it properly as it uses almost all the power of the processor, so your CPU will heat up quite a bit.

One thing is that Windows may be throttling your processor, check in msconfig.
Your software, if you install any, goes in (C), not (D).

Press the button > Windows+r > run > Advanced options > Number of processors, usually it’s set to 1 > check the box, click on the dropdown menu, and set it to the maximum number it suggests, maybe 4 if you have a 4-core processor > ok > apply > ok, restart your PC for it to take effect.

Normally, you should load faster, and it will relieve your CPU a bit in-game and may heat up less, but it's not guaranteed; at worst, it will only do it good, test it and see how it goes.

Kiilla · Answer

Hello,

Here are the required configurations to run Warzone:
https://www.tomshardware.fr/les-differentes-configurations-pour-call-of-duty-warzone/

I think your setup can run it at minimum because you don't have a high-end configuration. Maybe Warzone is too demanding for your laptop.

Be careful, 93° is very dangerous for your processor; an Intel processor can withstand up to 100°, but it might burn out your processor after that. Is there enough thermal paste on the processor? Since it's a laptop, I think it will be complicated to know.

What temperature do you get on your CPU with your other games, Apex and GTA? Are the spikes at 100% from your hard drive or your processor?

As for the rollbacks, it's due to the connection; it's lag spikes due to ping. If you're experiencing freezing bugs, it might be due to your processor overheating or also the graphics card.

Just because you're running your games with nice graphics doesn't mean your processor isn't overheating. Keep an eye on your processor and graphics card temperatures in your other games and post your results; with HWmonitor, HWinfo, or Speedfan. Otherwise, you can use MSI Afterburner to monitor all your temperatures in-game, and you can see them in real-time.

https://fr.msi.com/Landing/afterburner

There are tutorials to configure it; if you test MSI Afterburner while playing, you just need to take a screenshot.

Masted552 · Answer

Good evening,

Thank you for your response, I downloaded AfterBurner and here are the results:

The results seem quite high to me, I will try to disassemble my machine and reapply thermal paste and clean a bit, hoping that the temperature goes down.

I also noticed that the max temperature was 93°C, it would be possible to lower it through the BIOS or through software like Notebook Hardware Control (I'm not sure if it's still usable since it doesn't work on Windows 64bits https://www.pbus-167.com/.

To get back to what you told me, I think I have at least the minimum configuration (Is the minimum configuration defined by the developers? And does it allow the game to run smoothly, or just to launch it at all?).

Finally, the spikes at 100% are from my hard drive, I did some research and found that if it’s at 100% it could lead to decreased performance, so I deleted a few minor things that could be using it unnecessarily in vain : /.

Kiilla · Answer

MSI Afterburner is not like that, here you only have the temperature of your graphics card.
MSI Afterburner is used to overclock graphics cards, that’s not what we want and the software

can give you information about your (processor, graphics card, memory, RAM, fps)... that's the information we want, usage information, temperature while you play.

I will post an image from R6, look at the top left, you'll see all the information I was telling you about. Watch a tutorial and configure MSI Afterburner, so that we can see this information while you play and take screenshots.

If you follow a tutorial it’s not too complicated to display the information in-game and it will be useful for you later.

Did you also install Rivatuner Statistics? It will allow you to display the statistics; without Rivatuner you won't have anything displayed.

Here, check out this tutorial, it should help you, you just need to display the statistics, that’s all.
Once properly configured, you launch MSI Afterburner, it will automatically launch Rivatuner and then you launch your game, the display of the statistics will also happen automatically.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHnTUIWfYnM

Masted552 · Answer

So I'll note: make more space on my HDD and SSD (?)

As for the in-game capture, I have this from Rocket League; I'll do one later on Warzone if you need:

As for the PC, I did buy it new so there's no need to change the thermal paste.

Masted552 · Answer

Hello and THANK YOU to you,  I followed your advice and I can (finally) play Warzone properly (CPU between 70~75°C).  I made some space on my HDD, cleaned the dust by disassembling the PC, and I defragmented the HDD (with Smart defrag free), the game is much more stable now.  Thanks again to you :D

Kiilla · Answer

Hi,

Well, it's nice to hear that, I'm happy for you that our advice has been helpful and

it really helped you, yes indeed going from 93° to 70-75° is more within the norms now, enjoy yourself and have fun like a Geek lol ;)

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