Hello Illegear folks,

I've purchased a Laguna recently (i7-8750H, gtx1070 config), I'm just a little concerned with the thermals I've been observing over the first two weeks. My CPU idles at around the low 50s to low 60s and while running games such as Dota2 and CSGO, they tend to fluctuate between the 70s to high 80s region. And for AAA title games such as Rise of the Tomb Raider, GTA 5 and Witcher 3, at CPU intensive parts (for instance in GTA 5, population variation rendering and etc) I'm observing CPU temps as high as 95.

Thermals for GPU on the other hand is sitting comfortably at 70+ degrees, which I have no problem about it.

I have established some kind of expectations on CPU thermals because I previously owns a z7 (i7-7700hq, gtx1050ti config) and even at max loads, I've never seen anything going more than 90 Celsius degrees (idles at high 30s and sits at around 70+ during gaming). So I'm just curious if what I'm experiencing is consistent with your temperature benchmark for the new Laguna and should be consider as something normal across all 8th gen Laguna (and perhaps all 8th gen laptops out there)? Or is there just something unusual for my particular unit?

Even though, I've tried some undervolting and they're in fact achieving great results in terms of minimal performance trade off for better thermals, but given that this is a new machine, I think the last thing I would like to do is to be relying on 3rd party utilities just to keep my CPU thermals cool.

This post has been edited by Adriaz: Aug 24 2018, 10:33 PM

Thanks for the valuable input there! So based on what you're saying, seems like higher temps are to be expected for all 8750H regardless, that might actually cross out one of my worries about my device being the faulty one. If that's the case, I guess I'll stick with my undervolting practice and then see if a repaste is really necessary - as a matter of fact, I opted for the Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut upgrade and to be repasting on top of that 2 weeks after I gotten my new laptop sounds abit ridiculous.

On the other hand, I have to admit that liquid metal sounds really really tempting but I would think is rather risky for a new laptop as mine. Let's see if the other Illegear folks do come back with any sort of temperature benchmark for their latest Laguna model on coffee lake so that I've a better idea as of how to manage my expectations here!