Hi all! I have been experiencing many issues with my framework 16 over these past few months. I was one of the “early” batches to get the laptop, and brushed some of these issues off. I can no longer justify this however, as it is making playing any games more stress than it is worth. I have two k…

I have since updated from BIOS 3.03 to 4.04, doing a completely fresh install of windows, and using the newest driver package. Thought I don’t believe a newer windows install and drivers would help, as I do remember having some similar issues on Linux too (although that was an unsupported distributi…

Welcome to the forum @Kei . If the machine is constantly running hot like this there is a good chance that the liquid metal has managed to pump itself out of place partially. There is a guide from Framework to change the liquid metal thermal material to PTM which does not have this effect over time…

[image] Uneven CPU thermals! Framework Laptop 16 I was benchmarking my CPU with different software and I had HWinfo open and noticed that each core has a substantial temperature difference. It used to not be like this and I’ve never pulled the heat pipes off th…

So basically I’d be looking at replacing the LM on my cooler? Seems simple enough, I’ll order some PTM 7950 and follow along with the linked post, hopefully once it arrives and I get through the replacement it should be usable again :slight_smile: Thank you both for bringing my attention to this!

CPU Temperature and GPU crashing issues

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Per_Magnus_Tveten June 25, 2026, 9:42am 4

This thread is all about the journey people did

Using the guide and knowledge from this thread, it was not a super horrible experience, especially knowing it’s a path that quite a few have successfully done.

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CPU Temperature and GPU crashing issues

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