recently noticed that the exhaust ports would be pumping some absolutely hot air enough to cause concern. watching 'HWmonitor' and seeing the cpu hit over 200*F, I took the thing apart and replaced the thermal paste with some new arctic silver5 and blew out all the fan dust bunnies. after getting back together and testing again that didnt seem to help at all! i was shocked so i started diving deeper into the rog software.
there is a ROG logo button on the top of the keyboard that hot swaps the modes from silent/performance/turbo and i used this all the time without doing any custom tweaking. the only reason i used it was because it would give me the higher fps refresh rates for gaming and kick on the fans to cool better(or so i thought was happening).
Turns out that when you hit those options it it clocking the ever loving mess out of the cpu/gpu and the temps were directly reflective of this. so what i did was set a custom option in there to basically not do any overclocking on the CPU side because the ryzen 9 5900HX is already powerful enough and usually never over 40% utilization anyways so why overlock and stress it more. now when gaming i see the cpu/gpu sittings at a comfortable 170*F / 76*C an still getting the higher 165hz frames. adjusted fans to optimal speeds as well.
(TLDR CURRENT ISSUE)
after making the above changes and watching resting temps stay around GPU: 102*F / 39*C CPU: 125*F / 53*C for casual browsing everything seems to be fine. HOWEVER when i walk away for a period of time and let my screen go dark HWmonitor will record temps of the cpu spiking up to 200*F/93*C again! ]
notes on system. disabled sleep and hybernation modes so the only thing it does after 20 mins is turns off screen. no screen saver, no rotating desktop background, no extra features! I have gone through startup tasks with revo and cleaned out almost every single things for startup and background processes. still spikes to almost boiling point WTF?
thanks for the read and please help!
