My FW13 always seems to be really hot. With not much running, temps will hover around 70C (see screenshot). This is noticeable because the fans will kick in loudly if I do anything even a tiny bit taxing, such as watch a video or compile some code. It’s hard to use on my lap. Is this normal? Does everyone just live with the fans ramping up and down all the time, or do I have bad thermals in my CPU?
I’m running Fedora 40 with power profile on Balanced.
These CPU temps are within the normal range. Are you running in the performance profile or powersave?
Adding my response from another thread because this one is quite similar.
FYI, KDE’s system monitor is power hungry, you get significant CPU and GPU usage just from this program. You may want to use other more lightweight programs like btop, s-tui and/or radeontop
Sort by CPU %?
Think the operative concern from OP is " all the time?".
The secondary concern (not mentioned)…Heat comes from power consumption, so, how’s battery life?
Can’t say if this is the case for OP’s Framework, but on my Lenovo Flex 5, it gets to the 80s doing basic tasks such as web browsing or video playback when in the performance profile.
Ouch…sounds rather toasty for relatively basic tasks.
I also have a FW13, running Fedora 40 (Typing this reply on it now, it’s my daily use machine). When doing light tasks like web browsing or word processing, it stays pretty cool to the touch (warm on the bottom, nothing extreme), and I never hear the fan. The fan is sometimes running, but it’s very faint. I have to hold the computer up to my ear to tell the fan is running most of the time.
If I do heavier tasks the temp of the bottom of the laptop will ramp up and sometimes the fan ramps up, but not normally just from watching a video. Though watching a video will make the bottom get noticeably warmer, it doesn’t normally make the fan run. I never monitor the actual temps, but in light use, it’s generally silent.
I wonder if OP is experiencing some form of the video decoder energy inefficiency. There’s a thread on that.
Something like this (old, but there’s on-going development):
And this:
Just want to add…maybe boot it into single user / console mode…and see if it’s still hot.
I noticed poor battery life and heat. It ended up being Ente Auth running in the tray just burning away in the background.
