Core i5 2410M getting hot during games

It's an intel, that's what they do lol. No I'm just giving you a hard time although I do see tons of posts on here about heat issues with the iX series CPU's. I would try cleaning out some of those fans on your lappy first.

You can try one of those notebook platforms with the cooling fans to blow more air directly on the underside where the air intake usually is, and try blowing it out of course.

The laptop is only a month old and i have only just started gaming. It is also on a pad which has 3 fans....

also, i tried to run TR on CPU 0 and 1 (which is basically 1 core 2 threads -.- and i thought i5's was quad cores) and the temps were 75C 70C (compared to 85C 84C)

Running on only 1 thread (CPU 0) made the game slightly sluggish and I figured its using 1 core so what the heck, might has well use both threads.

I still would like to test and keep my max CPU speed to something lower and keep all cores on for a game to see whats best  

Intel quotes the T-JUNCTION (temp) at 100*C so I would probably just run it full out. Depending on your notebook make and model I would look it up and see what users are saying about the heat. Do you have it plugged in while playing? Sometimes the charging adds extra heat and since it's a notebook there's not many places for it to go.

I have figured out another way. It just happened that my power wasnt plugged in while playing Tomb Raider GOL, and when I was done playing after an hour or so, I checked the temperatures. I was surprised to see the temps at 70 and 62 for the two cores in CoreTemp, instead of the usual 85-80

The cpu was infact throttling during the game to lower the temps and avoid having the fan running at full speed. Kinda nice, since the gameplay was unaffected.

I checked under profiles (it was Balanced profile , unplugged) and there is an option for this under processor power management --> system cooling policy.



Changing it to passive (while plugged in) did not initiate the throttling effect.  

However changing to Power Saving mode (plugged in or not) instead of Balanced mode, did achieve throttling while gaming, which kept temps lower.\o/

This is ok for Guardian of Light gaming.

For Starcraft 2 and Skyrim, however not so. Ex of Starcraft 2 .

Fraps : 60fps (Balanced Plugged in = 2.2Ghz)
Fraps : 30fps (Power Saving Mode Plugged in = 800Mhz~1.2Ghz)

The problem is it doesnt throttle to higher speeds very much (ofc since its in power saving mode) rarely going above 1Ghz even during game loading.

The only solution I see is if somehow I can fix the upper/max freq limit to 1.5-1.6Ghz.

 

Next box down in maximum processor state you can lower the max cpu speed by percentages. If you have a 2.2 and set it to 50% max then it will only run at 1.1 GHz, or 75% and it should run at 1.6 GHz.

What is the brand and model of this laptop? Most laptops really don't keep things cool like they should to keep costs and the total weight down as people tend to complain greatly about weight. A cooling pad for laptops will help push temps down a little but not by much.

Bah, I was pretty sure it wasnt working as intended. But thanks for restating it.

It works. @ 80% it is 1795Mhz.

Ill play with the settings to see whats best for performance/heat.