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You don't specify temperature of which component but from what I've been reading if you get more than 86 degrees C on the GPU there is something wrong since this is supposed to be the thermal limit in BIOS. Above this temperature the GPU will throttle down to reduce temperature.
I have undervolted both CPU and GPU and would recommend it since it does seem to reduce temperature and give better performance (less throttling). I've also turned off CPU turbo since it produces a lot of heat without necessarily improving game performance.
Sounds about right from everything in this forum and the official forums. The strix line runs hot. I suggest undervolting like the previous poster mentions
86 cpu and 86 gpu after 5 minutes in Asus RealBench which stresses the cpu with AVX instructions (like Prime95) and stresses the GPU for rendering.. It's a great test to see if your system is super stable and maximum temps under a more realistic scenario instead of doing Prime95 + Furmark. However, I haven't tried games (yet) still playing around..
And those numbers are post-repasted with liquid metal.. And it didn't change the max temps much at all likely because of the shared cooling setup inside, all pipes go over both the cpu/gpu.
I crash with RealBench at -150mv core/cache.. but it seems stable at -145mv/-145mv so far.
My previous MSI GT62VR would do about the same undervolt before it got flaky.
And it also idles higher than most other machines i've used.. already mid 40s and about 50c on the gpu.
I don't think it's bad all in all so far, you'll just have to be okay with higher idle and load temps than a much thicker system or a system that has seperate pipes/heatsinks per cpu and gpu.
FWIW, I think the obsession with temperatures on these laptops is a bit much. My GL702 idles at about 48-50 CPU/GPU, very very quiet at that too and great for general puttering about and doing work etc. Gaming can go as high as 87 CPU and GPU, but I've been using it solid for 2 months now and having no problems whatsover. Only natural that fairly slim gaming laptops are going to run on the warm side, as did my previous MSI GS70 (which was substantially louder with the fans). That old MSI is still going strong after 3 years.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
