Hello there,

I am seeking for your help with identifying the root cause and may be a solution for my overheating issue with HP Pavilion x360 Convertible 14-cd0xxx machine. I got this PC 2 weeks ago, it runs very smoothly during everyday use except one annoying and I guess very frequent term which is gaming. During gaming left side of my machine (where the intel core i5 CPU is) gets extremely hot (during gaming stress it reaches about 80-85 C), it burns my finger - can't hold it for longer then 10 seconds on affected surface. It's very annoying as it is a newly purchased notebook.

I have the bumbelee package installed on my PC and tlp configured too. I use Debian stable repos and have a nvidia mx130 within machine.

Not so really sure what logs could be useful to investigate this issue but I am glad to share them if you describe me their command (myself isn't a pro Linux user). Please have a look on this and let me know if you have any idea to lower this temp of CPU.


Any help, advise is going to be well-appreciated.

You are over stressing the processor running games on it, there isn't enough air flow to keep the processor cool, likely you will burn something out, if you keep gaming on it, just not built as a games machine.

I tend to agree with the previous post though, as I understand it, 85C is well within "normal high" temperature range for that CPU and I would guess it is thermal throttling a bit to keep it there.
You could see whether there are any fan controls or other heat related settings in BIOS though that would likely just cause the fan to ramp up quicker or the CPU and/or GPU to thermal throttle sooner and more.

Thank you so much for posting your thoughts here. I just do not to understand why HP sells PCs with dedicated nvidia cards if the Fan can't cool machine properly down when using that resource. Any way it's not only GPU related as I have tried to game without activating nvidia with optirun, using just basic intel dedicated gpu.



Thanks for the hint. However I haven't got too many options over fan controlling unfortunately. I can only enable it or disable it :/

The CvPU and GPU produced the heat they produce.
If the vlaptoip overheats then it's not designed correctly. Sorry, that's it.

Sure, understood. Thank you for sharing your opinion. I believe I am just going to invest in a proper cooling pad which might somehow support gaming experience and wellbeing of the machine.