Lemmy is my laptop cooked? - eviltoast

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

  • Trinsec@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    That’s a bit hot for idle, yes. Probably a good time to clean out the fans and apply new thermal paste.

    • Amon@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • Trinsec@piefed.socialEnglish
        6·
        1 day ago

        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.