#MSI Pulse GL66 Extreme Overheating

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silk widget
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CPU: 12th Gen Intel(R) Core (TM) i9-12900H
Base Speed: 2.90 Ghz
GPU 0: Intel(R) Iris(R) XE Graphics
GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU

Recently, I have been having pretty bad temperature issues with my CPU and GPU. I had researched in to undervolting, however, Intel has completely locked this option for my model. Enabling Advanced BIOS doesn't even allow me to disable it nor gives me access to Intel XTU.

I'm having to set my video options in games to the minimum and even then I am getting CPU readings of 201.1F and GPU readings of 192.0F... this doesn't seem like it should be the case.

Recently, I started playing Minecraft and had the settings to the lowest I could possibly set them. Within ~15 minutes my laptop's fans were going full RPM and the keyboard became very hot to the touch. My laptop eventually ended up shutting itself off.

I am also using a cooling pad with decent RPM for the fan and a very large surface area. If I don't use the cooling pad the laptop becomes even hotter.

I have absolutely no idea what to do nor how to fix this issue. I'm leaning towards taking the loss and simply selling the laptop for something better, but I'd like to do all I can before I take that route.

woeful moon
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Have you seen the reddit thread above?

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have you tried repasting?

silk widget
# woeful moon have you tried repasting?

I've thought about repasting but my laptop is not even 2 months old. It's pretty much factory new and I only use it for 2 or 3 hours a day. A good chunk of the posts I see they recommend changing the thermal paste and pads after 8 months to a year.

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I have come across this thread earlier. I followed what I could. Enabling advanced bios does not, and I triple checked, give me access to any options related to XTU or undervolting.

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I have tried limiting CPU usage in my power plan but it seemed to have zero effect.

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Unfortunately, my model laptop utilizes Modern Standby under the power section in control panel, so the only configuration I have to work with is Balanced.

If I run cmd prompt as administrator and do "powercfg /a" it informs me that my system is not eligible for the other power plans. And importing / cloning the schematic for them does nothing.

left bone
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It's possible they botched the thermal paste/pads. If it's under warranty send it in for an RMA

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Or you could have malware, download anything sus lately?

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Actually Minecraft mod managers like curseforge had a breach in which malware would be installed on computers through modpacks. Wonder if you got hit with something like that and it's driving up temps and usage

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Could download Malwarebytes and scan, I think they have a free version or something