Bought a new laptop with Ryzen 3700U. Swapped out the thermal paste and did a stress run on CPU-Z. Really heavy load made it go over 90 degrees Celsius peaking at 97.
While hitting 97 degrees the processor went up to 3,9 GHz which is really high for a laptop. Obviously the laptop didn’t thermal throttle either.
These are the temps under different load;
Idle - around 40
Gaming - around 70-80
Stress test - around 90
The laptop is very thin - there is not much room for cooling.
Should I be worried about the temperature and the thermal paste application? Ryzen claims max operating temperature to be 105 degrees.
Did I mess up the new thermal paste application or did the new thermal paste make it possible to even hit 3,9 GHz? What are your guys opinions?
Since gaming is in the 70-80 range, I would not worry about it. For one, laptops are not built for cooling, and aren't really true gaming machines, unless you buy a specific gaming laptop with an upgrade cooling solution, and even those will be limited thermally compared to a desktop/tower PC. The stress test result isn't that bad in my opinion. It's a laptop.