Overheating issues

[Luiso.]

I bought an Alienware M15 R3 with the specs RTX 2070, 16GB RAM, Intel icore 7 10th gen, with 1TB SSD. This is my first time gaming on PC, I'm currently transitioning from console. Before anybody says I got ripped because I got an Alienware lol I bought it on a black friday deal and the only reason why I chose to start gaming on a laptop is because I needed to upgrade from the one I had for my college courses, and of course I wanted to game.

Every time that I run Cyberpunk I'm getting GPU temps from 90 to 100 degrees even with the full performance option turned on... I made sure all drivers are updated and disk is clean. Other games like Read Dead Redemption I get 80-90 degrees which I think is normal (correct me if I'm wrong), and on Phasmophobia I get 70-75 degrees.

I am not that experience with PC gaming hardware as it is my first time gaming on this side of the gaming world. Any help and recommendations will be much appreciate it. I really want to play this game, but every time I run it I'm afraid I will mess up my system.

 

[elgameo]

You most probably will not really break your system. Once GPU gets too hot it is throttled and in emergency cases the laptop turns off.
Cyberpunk is a very demanding game for PCs though, that's why you experience high temps.
But as long as nothing crashes you should be fine.

 

[Luiso.]

So I shouldn't have anything to worry about unless it crashes? If that happens should I downgrade the game performance options? Right now I'm running the game with the default performance, which my laptop configured to everything high/ultra.

Btw, thanks for the quick response!

 

[elgameo]

I would not worry. It probably will not crash anyhow due to the GPU throttling when to hot.
Just enjoy the game!

 

[Luiso.]

Game starting to crash 15 mins into it. Only way to play it is to lower the settings and not even that works sometimes...idk what to do

 

[ahtis89]

I always set the fan speed manually to 80% and that drops the temperature to under 80C when playing. My 2070 only has one fan and it's blower-GPU so the temperature is higher then those with multiple fans.

With factory settings the fan favors low noise and max heat 85C.

 

[rastamanphan]

laptops can't handle thermal load that well. try to lower the settings one at a time to see if that helps (resolution is set at 1080p, ya?). Also, if you prop your laptop up a bit (place a pencil under it), it could improve the amount of airflow thru the chassis leading to cooler temperatures. You really don't want to hit 80C+ on any computer, much less a laptop.

 

[JamesJerona]

The game is very unoptimized therefore making your CPU to work very very hard to calc things far away from your vision bubble. Also very demanding graphically so makes your GPU to work at its max. Therefore you need very good cooling which a laptop cannot offer. So you either need to make some very good airflow to it or lower the game to some very low res and low settings.

You can check your temps and usage with MSI Afterburner.

 

[Luiso.]

Thanks for the replies, this was really helpful! I lowered the graphics and it's running smooth now and my gpu is at a normal temperature.

 

[lameover]

"gaming notebook" is a well-known myth and false advertisement.

 

[Shoklen]

If you are on a laptop, the best thing you can do for gaming is get a cheap "laptop cooler" that goes under the laptop while it is running - brings the temps down as it forces more air into those tiny laptop vents. Cheap one is like $12, decent one around $20, i wouldn't spend more then that, it's just fans in a plastic cage..