High temperature on i7-8750h

[Sacha7]

Hey there,

Can I ask what idle temperatures you are getting and do your fans ever go off? I am getting 50-60oC idle temperatures, the temps will creep past 60oC then the fans will come on at high speed cooling it down to the 50 range. Is this the same with your laptop? Or can you browse/watch videos without the fan every turning on?

[MsKO]

Hi,

In idle I would say that the average temperature is somewhere between 50-60 degrees Celcius. The fans kicks in rather loudly quite frequently pretty much whatever I'm doing with the computer.

[Rapsux]

undervolt the processor. look at who has doen this before and use their stable number or a little less.

wthermal repaste. use kryonaut from thermal grizzly (or if you want to risk your pc and warranty use liquid metal)
my thermal repaste knocked 15 degrees off of my load tempertures. (i7 7700hq rx580 8 gb 32 gb gskill 500 gb nvme + 2.5 raid enclosure 500gb)

in intel extreme tunin utility knocking down the turbo boost max to 40 or even 35 is worth a little improvement, but if you bring it under 30 expect to get clock speeds that arent as high as you would normally get.

verify the surface youre using for the laptop  has good air flow and if you can keep your ambient tempertures in the 70s or below (f)   it will only have a positive effect on your performance.

also soak up the winter temperatures. 

[MsKO]

Thank you very much for your reply.

I actually turned my computer in to service and after a couple of tries without any success of fixing the issue I instead got a new one. The temps are now a lot better and even without undervolting they hardly exceeded 80 degress celcius.

The problem is thus resolved.

[Darro20]

Hi

Im thinking of buying the omen 17. Can I ask did you get omen 17 as the replacement and what cpu and gpu combination you got? The temps are great, did you get the 80c with changing any power or boost settings, or did you leave them as they were?

I would be interested to hear anyone with omen 17 with 8750h/8300h cpu about the thermals please? Do you know whether the omen 17 got thermal bios updates like the omen 15 as I could not see them on the drivers pages?

Thanks

[WesseH]

Hi,

I got my Omen 17 delivered yesterday.

i7-8750h, 16 gb ram, GTX 1070.

I haven't done any tweaking as yet as, obviously, I am just getting it set up with the software I need.

Temperatures I've noted so far:

Background downlaoding + browsing (reading this thread for the most part) CPU temperature @ 68-70 C, this had me slightly worried, which is how I found this thread in the first place. However, this is based on all the load of downloading my apps, games, and software to get it setup for my intended use.

Once background downloads stopped and CPU usage dropped from 24-32% to 2-6% the temperature dropped to 52 C steady within seconds. at this point I took it off the solid wood of my desk and placed it on the cooling pad of my old 15.6" laptop. This further reduced idle temperatures to 40 C on the GPU and 42-45 C on the CPU.

Playing Civilization VI, GPU temperature went from 45-48 to 62 C (with 55% load at peak), CPU went from 52 to a peak of 80 (using no more than 65% of capacity at any time, presumably because it only used 4 cores), but the CPU for the most part remained in the 65 - 75 C.

 When I then played Payday 2 without adjusting the graphics settings I got a BSOD on the first interaction during a mission. After rebooting and raising the graphics settings to match the machine it put less pressure on the GPU and CPU than Civ, peaking at about 65 C on CPU and 55 C on GPU.

I'm sure I will shortly play games or undertake work that pushes the CPU above 80 C, but for now I am quite content with what I am seeing. I don't do too many very long high-demand sessions, so seeing the laptop cool itself back down to less than 60 C within a minute of stopping demanding operations I am quite happy with this device.

Hope this helps.

[MsKO]

Yes, I got the same modell as a replacement. 17", i7-8750h and 1060m.

The temperatures I first stated was without undervolting, but for some reason they quickly got worse. Anyway, I have been using the computer undervolted most of the time (this CPU can take som serious undervolting, -160 without any issues!) and the temperatures generally peak around 80 degrees Celsius while under load but with the rare and ocassional spike above 90 degrees.

Overall I would still say that it´s a good performance, but I do believe that Intel pushed out six core CPU´s a bit too early.

[MsKO]

Sounds as if you temperatures are alright! Just as you mention, the temperatures do drop of fairly quickly. The problem I had with spikes were all due to the fans kicking in a bit too late when the CPU was put under sudden preasure.

[Darro20]

Thanks for the responses.

Does the cpu temp more or less stay in the 70s on high load?

Anyone repasted yet? Just wondering what effect that would have on temps.

Thanks

[TomNL]

I also have this processor and it was also constantly on a temp above 90 degrees while gaming but I managed to fix this by using the free intel software "Intel Extreme Tuning". I undervolted as much as possible (Look up some tutorials to see how this works. It's quite easy and doesn't impact performance at all) and I also disabled "Turbe Boost Short Power Max" and lastly I turned Turbo Boost Power Max down to 20,00W. This does impact performance a bit but (for me) not noticably. Below I added a screenshot of my settings and my temps while I was playing Battlefield V. As you can see It's on a stable 83 degrees and my processing power is relatively stable at 3.88 GHZ while playing which is about (4 - 3.88) 0.12GHZ lower than normal. And If that's to hot I can easily lower it by offering up some performance.

PS: I have the HP Omen 15 with the I7-8750h PCU, GTX1060 6GB GPU and 16GB of ram. I also had no experience with gaming laptops and temperature problems before this so this is no professional talking but this is how I fixed it after a day or a day and a half of googling and testing so I hope this helps some other people.

PSS: I also turned my CPU power under Power Management down to 99% when on battery and sometimes also on the charger. This put's the CPU on the base clock of 2.1/2.2 GHZ and put the temp down to MAX 79 degrees (or 69 degrees I don't remember), so this basically just turns off the tubo on this CPU.