Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3-15IMH05 laptop overheating on AC but not on battery
by generic_person from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5F7MY)
Hello,
I've recently bought a new Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3-15IMH05 laptop (with the intel i7-10750H CPU and Nvidia gtx 1650ti GPU). I use Debian 11 (Bullseye) with the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Everything seems to work well, but there is a problem: when I play games while on AC power, the CPU temps climb up to 98C, but when I play the same games while on battery power, the CPU temps stay only around 70C or less (the performance of the games doesn't really change).
I have TLP and thermald installed. According to the TLP config, the CPU scaling_governor is set to powersave both on AC and on Battery. The enegry_performance_preference was by default set to balance_performance on AC and balance_power on battery, so I tried to change it to balance_power on AC too, but it didn't help the overheating issue. I don't have any custom thermald settings so that should be the default.
If it helps, here's the logs from tlp-stat:
While on AC power:
https://pastebin.com/W4psurQH
While on battery:
https://pastebin.com/GzBGtjJg
(through pastebin, too long to fit into the post)
I'm not really sure what could be wrong here, so I'm not sure what more to try right now. I tried searching for this problem but I haven't found anything relevant yet. Thanks for any help, and just ask if you need any more information or logs.
I've recently bought a new Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3-15IMH05 laptop (with the intel i7-10750H CPU and Nvidia gtx 1650ti GPU). I use Debian 11 (Bullseye) with the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Everything seems to work well, but there is a problem: when I play games while on AC power, the CPU temps climb up to 98C, but when I play the same games while on battery power, the CPU temps stay only around 70C or less (the performance of the games doesn't really change).
I have TLP and thermald installed. According to the TLP config, the CPU scaling_governor is set to powersave both on AC and on Battery. The enegry_performance_preference was by default set to balance_performance on AC and balance_power on battery, so I tried to change it to balance_power on AC too, but it didn't help the overheating issue. I don't have any custom thermald settings so that should be the default.
If it helps, here's the logs from tlp-stat:
While on AC power:
https://pastebin.com/W4psurQH
While on battery:
https://pastebin.com/GzBGtjJg
(through pastebin, too long to fit into the post)
I'm not really sure what could be wrong here, so I'm not sure what more to try right now. I tried searching for this problem but I haven't found anything relevant yet. Thanks for any help, and just ask if you need any more information or logs.