My 11th gen i7 overheats and throttles. hwinfo64 shows that I have multiple instances of the CPU package and IA Cores hitting 104C. The Package/Ring Thermal Throttle sensor was tripped. As was the Core Thermal Throttle sensor.
Hell, the WD SSD was hitting 62C…insane for an SSD.
All this on Windows 10.
This laptop has to sit on a cooling pad 24/7 so as to not overheat and shut down.
Fixing to try a TIM swap.
ill switch to Linux before I move to W11. I tried W11 on this laptop before…no dice
And the fan does work. I can hear it like a jet engine right now.
Well then I recommend you try Fedora 37. I understand the Windows 11 hate, I felt the same way about Vista…have not had WIndows on any of my non work machines in 12 years…and now I don’t even have it installed on my work machines. Good luck. If you can get yourself a hold of some Honeywell PTM7950 I highly recommend it. Paste it, and forget it. Thermals are great with it and it is easy to apply.
im fixing to apply Noctua NT-H1
Hello,
I also experience unnerving heat problems and I only bought the AMD Ryzen™ 5 7640U (up to 4.9GHz, 6-core/12-thread) version of the 13" 13th gen. How should the problem be amendable if there are only some tiny teeny air ducts JUST BELOW THE CASING which in case you didn’t know is the place the whole laptop does by design stand on. Don’t ask me how fast I get a hot LAP when I place the LAPTOP there. But also when placed on a table - who is responsible for this strike of genius for this fundamental design flaw?
Please frame.work team! Explain to me how you can be serious about this?! Until now I am quite unhappy with the laptop and I feel like I have bought some china product. This feels really bad as I a) wanted to support your idea of “open source”-hardware in the mindset of Louis Rossman for disenshittification. And b) I wanted a “Linux laptop” as you state yourself on your website. But I would maybe better have bought a dell again. not sure if they support linux. My last one did and I never had any quirks.
Can someone give me an answer as to the placing and size of the airducts?
Thanks
Maximilian
The intakes are on the entirety of the bottom. This is pretty much industry standard across every laptop. If you block it there is no air going into the laptop, and yes it will overheat.
The vents for the outgoing air are along the left center where the display hinges. This is also a common standard across the industry.
That being said 1) Make sure you are on the latest BIOS. 2) Repaste the heatsink it sounds like a bad factory paste job which is also a common problem industry wide. I have yet to buy any prebuilt/assembed machine where the paste job was not bad. The degree of suck has varied, but they have universally sucked. 3) Make sure the fan and heatsink are not clogged with dust. If you using on a soft surface i.e. blanket, fleece, or similar material parts of it will want to migrate to the inside of your machine.
This is all assuming you are running appropriate workloads. If you are running 70b LLM models on it then nothing is going to keep it from getting hot.
All that being said I have used my Intel 12th gen based Framework 13 under a wide variety of conditions and experience no such issues.
