Laptop CPU gets very hot in games like VALORANT. (In the Task Manager the CPU usage is 90%) Why is that?

ly
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For a long time I have had a "gaming" laptop with a Ryzen 5 (with 3.7 GHz), a RAM size of 8 GB, and two graphics cards. (A GTX 1650 & Radeon Vega 8 Graphics)

As such, I can play all the games I want to play smoothly and without problems.

Unfortunately, the CPU shoots quite a bit in terms of heat in some games.

In games like VALORANT, which runs smoothly for me, the CPU utilization goes into the 90% range (at least that's how I see it in the Task Manager).

Why is that? Can you somehow fix this heat problem with my CPU? : /

Ne

Which cpu is exactly installed?

ly

The CPU is a Ryzen 5: D with up to 3.7 GHz.

vi

Since there's really not much that can be done with laptops in terms of airflow, I can only recommend that you replace the thermal paste on your CPU. However, it is not that easy when you do it for the first time.

otherwise a pure CPU utilization is nothing special and as long as your CPU does not exceed 85 degrees I would say that it is still in the yellow range.

greetings

Dennis "SwizzyNack" information technology assistant

Ne

I personally would rather see that the GPU is used for Valorant rather than the CPU. What do you think about that?

vi

I don't know exactly how it is with laptops, but I'm pretty sure that the program / game pulls what it needs. So if valorant needs more CPU than GPU usage, that's probably the case.