Laptop Overheating?

[thestrangebrew1]

The last couple of days my laptop has been stuttering when playing wow. Just started around monday. Using Afterburner to get temps, my gpu is running between 75-84C. Latency based on game is around 80-90ms, and I'm getting stuttering once every minute that lasts around 15 seconds. I've turned down settings, and I'm getting good speeds on my internet. Not sure what's going on. Other players don't seem to have this issue, so it's not the servers.

Specs:

Dell Inspiron 15-7577
Core i-7
16gb Ram
Nvidia 1060 Max Q
4k display.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[blankslate]

Try QuickCPU there are guides out there on it. if you're sure your stuttering is based on the CPU that might help...

for the overheating with an intel CPU try the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility again there are guides out there for it. the main setting you want to tweak is Core Voltage Offset.
I have mine at -0.105 V and WoW runs well and my temps have been reduced by about 7-8 Celsius

depending on the generation of CPU you can get get a stable system with undervolts that will reduce CPU temps buy up to around 15 degrees Celsius but I think around 5-7 degrees is more common based on various forum posts about individual's results with undervolting.


Good luck

Also if you see the message about wow voice chat disconnecting and reconnecting around the time you stutter you can implement firewall rules to block inbound and outbound communications to and from the following *.exes from within the Win 10 firewall

wowbrowserproxy.exe

wowvoiceproxy.exe

wowvoiceproxyT.exe

in the _retail_/utils directory in the wow folder

Hope this helps.


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[thestrangebrew1]

Thanks I'll take a look at these utilities and see if they help. I know I've never seen the wow voice message you refer to.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

Last night running the extreme utility, my cpu was being thermal throttled. I turned the core down -0.50 and played a bit and it seemed to work pretty well, but I only played for about 20 mins before I hit the sack. I'll test it out for a longer period tonight to see if I get the same issues. Thanks for the tip!

 

[blankslate]

Thanks for the tip!

You are welcome
as mentioned before certain generations of "core" series CPUs tend to have more or less tolerance for undervolting so you might be able to go noticeably lower in voltage or maybe not.


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[JustMe21]

Have you also tried using some canned air to blow out the vents?

 

[mindless1]

How many hours use, especially at high load like gaming? Not only would I try compressed air (but be careful not to damage the fan doing so), I'd think about opening it up to clean dust out better and get an idea if the fan is wearing out and has a resultant RPM drop.

I mean if it wasn't overheating since day one under similar load, something has degraded since then, unless the environment is different like placing it on a compressable surface (bed, couch, etc) where the vents are partially blocked.

 

[blankslate]

if you use canned air to blow out the vents be sure to use a paperclip or some cardboard or something you juryrig to hold the fans to keep them from spinning.

if you blow compressed air through the laptop vents the fans might spin at a much higher rpm than the motors run them during normal use and possibly damage the fan motor.

Be careful when blowing air at the fans in the laptop — if you make the fans spin too quickly, they could be damaged. Blow at the fans from many different angles, using short blasts of air.

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