CPU temperature very hot, should I be worried?

[Wallby]

I have my laptop on a stand. The carrying platform has a rectangular shape with a hole in the middle. Most of the bottom air intake is covered by said stand, though somewhat large strips aren't covered. All other air passages are not covered. The platform is made of plastic and sits at a 30° angle. It's this one: Leitz Ergo Verstelbare Multi-hoek Laptopstandaard, 80% gerecycled plastic | LEITZ

I checked the temperature a while back just to see if when it felt warm to the touch it wasn't getting too hot, and the GPU (NVIDIA 4050, not the 155h's Arc GPU) temperature never exceeded about 70°C. And I believe no other component exceeded 70 or 80 degrees either. I think I was using a different stand at the time as well. Didn't really think to check with the new stand.

The GPU temperature is still the same with max temperature being 76°C, while playing a game. However, I was getting some input lag, and I thought it might be my internet, but it wasn't when I checked the speed. Turned out my CPU was slightly above a 100°C. I think that what might have caused the difference is that I had Deezer music open in the background (in Edge) while playing the game, whereas otherwise I have YouTube Music on. I think this could be relevant as I checked what apps were causing the highest resource usage, and only CPU usage for Deezer was significant, about 3%. YouTube Music uses less than 1%.

Restarting my laptop, letting it cool down and playing with YouTube Music in the background instead, I didn't see any input lag again. Though the CPU temperature did go up to 106°C according to HWiNFO. I pinned a couple sensors to the task bar, and checked while the game was running. The average CPU temperature appeared to be around 100°C.

I don't really know what the CPU temperature is supposed to be. I don't remember if it was this high in the past as well. The weather is getting warmer, though it is not so warm yet that the indoor temperature is above winter room temperature with heating on, so that shouldn't be a factor.

I don't know if it was this high just once, or perhaps more often if I haven't noticed it (though never had any problems effecting gameplay before). Should I be worried that it could have done some damage to the cooling mechanism of my laptop? I don't know if that is likely. It seems odd that the CPU in this laptop, 155H, gets this hot. The game is THE FINALS. So it is a newer game. But still. I don't want to assume it is all fine if it can be detected early.

[Wallby]

Selected the wrong section. Is not a software question, but hardware.