ASUS comes with Armory Crate installed that shows temps of CPU and GPU and has fan settings ranging from windows - silent - performance - and turbo. I noticed all fans settings cause my laptop to be at a constant 55 c or higher no matter what I was doing…ONLY on turbo will the temps drop down to 42 c or so, which is where they should be. I experienced some weird flickering twice on YouTube and I believe this is from a the temp being too high for too long. So now I am only going to use the turbo setting from now on.
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Worse can happen burn up
I briefly owned an ASUS ROG Zephyrus G15 with Ryzen 5900HS and RTX 3080, and while it got pretty warm when running a game it had no temperature problems when just idling or doing casual surfing.
What model/config do you have? If it’s really that hot even when doing nothing I would strongly suspect that there’s stuff running in the background keeping your CPU and/or GPU busy for no good reason, driving temperatures up.
Its a ASUS F17 with i5 11260h and RTX 3050ti. When the power management is set to performance or balanced the fans go off completely and the temp goes up to 55 c just idling doing nothing. When the power plan is set to turbo the fans run at 2800 rpm constantly and maintain a temp between 38 to 48 c. I assume that performance and balanced are set to only run fans if the temp goes above 60 c or something. It just seems weird to me to let the laptop sit at 55 c and the not running fans at all…is that normal?
No, I don’t think that’s normal.
One thing that I just remembered that I had to tweak on my G15 is adjusting Windows power management to allow the CPU to downclock itself when not doing anything strenuous. Most laptops have this out of the box, but for whatever reason the stock Windows on the G15 has the CPU locked at max clock speed all the time, which was making it run hot.
This isn’t my screenshot, but if you open “Edit Power Plan” from the Start menu and then click “Change advanced power settings”, do you see the options highlighted here? If you do, set “Minimum processor state” to 1% or 5% or something similarly low (nothing is too low) and then hit Apply. That should help a fair deal.
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Unfortunately the processor management option is not available on my laptop. I have been looking at the temps and fans and think maybe I was overreacting a little though. The fans do go off on performance and balanced but they kick on around 60 c and bring it down to 50 c…and from what I’ve read that’s normal for a laptop.
It’s definitely available, since it’s a feature on all CPUs for the past 15+ years. Some laptop vendors just hide the option by default for some reason. Try following either of the two methods in this guide to get it to show up.
While 50C is “normal” for a laptop, it’s really only normal in the context of doing work. 50C idle is not normal. Point in case, the Tiger Lake laptop I’m typing this from is sitting at about 35C right now with Edge and OpenHardwareMonitor open.