Lemmy is my laptop cooked?
Lemmy is my laptop cooked?
On my system monitor my laptop idles at 80+ degrees celsius
EDIT: strangely enough, it has a similar temperature on high load
EDIT2: Yes I think I will order thermal paste
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That's a bit hot for idle, yes. Probably a good time to clean out the fans and apply new thermal paste.
Thanks! Of course, the computer is of adequate retirement age (it's going to turn 15 in August) or to be relegated to server duty, but it won't hurt to make sure the thermals are all good.
Addendum, that 'similar temperatue on high load' is because it's thermal throttled at that point. See that it went from 2.9GHz to 1.6GHz. It won't ever reach 100 degrees or close to that because of this safety feature.
you beat my comment by 3 minutes 😂