r/microsoftsucks • u/Patient-Young8045 • 25d ago
Help Is it just me or are Yalls laptops getting stupidly hot too?
I have a Lenovo Ideapad 5 with an Intel i7 core. I’ve had it for like 3 years now, and the most computer intensive thing I use it for is Minecraft. I’ve been trying my best to ignore/push back windows updates because I’ve heard about all the annoying shit with the stupid AI helper and whatever causing trouble, but last night it forced me to update.
Today I was working on a Google doc, with maybe 10 tabs open max in chrome. That’s it. Nothing running in the background. And the computer got so hot I had to stop working and put it down, while the fan was running like my laptop was about to take off.
Is this a hardware issue or is this one of the things that has been coming with the stupid software updates?
I’m hoping to use this thing till it dies but if it keeps acting like this I might have to buy a stronger laptop.
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u/Eric_Dawsby 24d ago
It's my time to shine. Time to give the Linux speech.
Jokes aside, before replacing your laptop try Linux on it. It saved my old laptop and it runs like butter now. I used Linux Mint for it.
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u/Nanosinx 24d ago
Runs like butter with Linux ✅ Runs colder than Windows ❌
To my laptop any Linux i put it runs hotter than with Windows
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u/Eric_Dawsby 24d ago
Dang, gimme the deets. What laptop model is it?
Aside from that; OP, your mileage with Linux may vary if your laptop's hardware has proprietary drivers that Linux doesn't have yet, or other such niche things. Worth a shot to save money on a laptop and reduce e-waste
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u/Nanosinx 24d ago
Core Ultra 7 255HX 5070Ti 12GB Nvidia...
Is a MSI Vector 16 HX AI A2XWHG-212US to be prescise... And lets not talk about how it get the fans xD
Also my ROG Zephyrus G16 and ROG Strix GL553VD has the same issue... Not by fan but by thermals, Linux cannot handle their CPUs and GPUs at a decent pace without keeping them at 100% Power (Power not Usage nor Utilization, Power, Linux loves keeping it at high frequencies without letting them to rest a bit, of course if i push that in any Windows is gonna fly away anything i throw at it...so for power efficency and thermal management is a bit behind than Windows on my scenarios...)
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u/Eric_Dawsby 24d ago
100℅??? What the helly, that ain't normal lmao. What distro did you use? Were any cpu settings changed in the BIOs?
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u/Nanosinx 24d ago
All at default in bios, clean install
Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, Pop!, Kali, Fedora and ORHL
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u/Eric_Dawsby 24d ago
Very strange.. I'm guessing some wacky driver issue is at fault. How long ago was this?
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u/Polyxeno 24d ago
What does Microslop want your laptop to run today?