why my gpu is going over 90c??

gavi7566

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so i've been playing Rainbow Six Siege on my laptop andand its more of a budget laptop and temperatures are going crazy. Its an i3 5th gen and gpu is radeon r5m330. It can atleast run at low settings at decent fps but it staets to heat and i am concerned about the hardware.
so i cleaned the fan and put some new thermal grease on it but still it starts to throttle cpu and destroys the game experience.
ambient temperatures would be like lower 30c.
My cpu is idle on 50c but cant tell for gpu because of switchable graphics.

one more thing whenever the cpu is on high load when playing game, after sometime its usage wont go beyond 50%. throttlestop shows it disabled one core of the two cores of cpu. why is that? can we disable it?
 
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Not all games use GPU and CPU equally. Some barely use the CPU at all while others run it at max. So maybe your laptop can handle max constant CPU usage or constant GPU usage but not both at the same time for a long period of time.

Either way not sure why the downvote. Good luck.

nzalog

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Laptops have limited cooling, they start off fine but can quickly get saturated if they are not designed well. I would not be worried about the hardware the throttling works well.

Has this laptop always behaved like this or is this new?
 

gavi7566

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this is a new thing i've been watching since a month. but it wont happen in other games. Is this game too heavy ? i compared with minimum requirements and it goes well through it.
 

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Not all games use GPU and CPU equally. Some barely use the CPU at all while others run it at max. So maybe your laptop can handle max constant CPU usage or constant GPU usage but not both at the same time for a long period of time.

Either way not sure why the downvote. Good luck.
 
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