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Hi Guys,

I have a HP Omen 17 (2017 model), my sister got it from China (studying there), it's been running pretty hot. When I am doing something as simple as browsing the web, the fans speed up and SpeedFan tells me that my CPU is at 70 odd degrees ....I am worried that it's gonna kill my laptop.

When I installed Doom 2016, it ran great, but after 20 odd minutes, the screen would go black and I will have to hold down the on button to reboot.

I was thinking that I have 2 options, reinstalling windows and repasting the CPU. I don't see reinstalling windows doing much however I am nervous about the repasting as I have never done it before.

I was wondering if you guys could advise on what you think will get me to better temps and a more stable laptop.

Thanks in advance
 
Fresh AS5 thermal paste.
Undervolt GPU. (AMD or NVidia?)
Custom CPU fan curve that gets more aggressive at 70C
Intel extreme tuning utility to change max boost wattage thus lowering temps and inhibiting thermal throttle.
 
Decent thermal paste would certainly help.

I'd start with first checking if there is anything suspicious running that's totalling the CPU. I mean, heating up so much when you're browsing the web is not normal. My laptop only turns into a turbine when I game, otherwise it's mostly quiet.

After the suspicious activity check, clean out the heatsinks if you can. Just flip it over, open it up, and give them a clean. Blocked heatsinks are bad. If there isn't proper airflow through them, you have a convection oven that can browse the internet.
 
Task manager is basically constantly running, there are times when the CPU load hits 100% but I shut it down quickly.....however there is still this constant ramping up. I think I'll run an anti virus and all of that good stuff and see if that helps. In the mean time I will order some quality thermal paste....

Would anyone have a link to some good stuff?

Thanks in advance
 
When the laptop gets hot like that (excluding gaming though), when you open up task manager and order by CPU usage, what do you see running? Sounds like something that shouldn't be running going AWOL or something.
 
mr_norris said:
Decent thermal paste would certainly help.

I'd start with first checking if there is anything suspicious running that's totalling the CPU. I mean, heating up so much when you're browsing the web is not normal. My laptop only turns into a turbine when I game, otherwise it's mostly quiet.

After the suspicious activity check, clean out the heatsinks if you can. Just flip it over, open it up, and give them a clean. Blocked heatsinks are bad. If there isn't proper airflow through them, you have a convection oven that can browse the internet.
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HP Omen is notorious for overheating, bad design with a lot of frustrated owners venting...
 
CodeTechToch said:
Hi Guys,

I have a HP Omen 17 (2017 model), my sister got it from China (studying there), it's been running pretty hot. When I am doing something as simple as browsing the web, the fans speed up and SpeedFan tells me that my CPU is at 70 odd degrees ....I am worried that it's gonna kill my laptop.

When I installed Doom 2016, it ran great, but after 20 odd minutes, the screen would go black and I will have to hold down the on button to reboot.

I was thinking that I have 2 options, reinstalling windows and repasting the CPU. I don't see reinstalling windows doing much however I am nervous about the repasting as I have never done it before.

I was wondering if you guys could advise on what you think will get me to better temps and a more stable laptop.

Thanks in advance
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3rd option, like Mogo said, is opening it up and cleaning out the dust. My 3 year old laoptop went from regularly throttling to 1ghz to never even running the fans full blast after a good clean..
 
Mogo said:
This may be a silly question but are you sure that the fans aren't blocked? ie it's not on your lap?
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Nope, it's always on my desk, I think I shoukd also raise it a couple of centimetres to allow it to breathe better.

ponder said:
HP Omen is notorious for overheating, bad design with a lot of frustrated owners venting...
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That's sucks because what I read was the opposite.

mr_norris said:
When the laptop gets hot like that (excluding gaming though), when you open up task manager and order by CPU usage, what do you see running? Sounds like something that shouldn't be running going AWOL or something.
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Well it does spike, and I kill the culprit quickly but there are time where I will hear the fans go crazy and check the task manager and nothing will be eating the CPU usage
 
Is it a recent problem? Or has it been ongoing?
If the former, have you updated via Windows Update recently?

I am on Windows 7 and updated via Windows Update and after that my laptop would run very hot with the fan going crazy when doing virtually nothing or simple tasks. So I used System Restore to restore to an earlier update and things returned to normal.

If you don't come right a fresh Windows install might help..... or it might not.
 
SoldierMan said:
Is it a recent problem? Or has it been ongoing?
If the former, have you updated via Windows Update recently?

I am on Windows 7 and updated via Windows Update and after that my laptop would run very hot with the fan going crazy when doing virtually nothing or simple tasks. So I used System Restore to restore to an earlier update and things returned to normal.

If you don't come right a fresh Windows install might help..... or it might not.
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No it's been like that for a while.... I'm aware of the latest Windows10 issue (I'm on win 10), and this precedes it
 
Just a shoutout to those who helped, I decided to try out the least invasive and cheapest option I had....

I propped the back of my laptop on 2 highlighter (free of charge) and Lo and behold, my laptop is CONSIDERABLY quieter and cooler....

It looks like it just wasn't getting adequate air flow.

So I think that I may invest in a R250 Laptop cooler to see if I can improve it further.

Then I may change the thermal paste just for kicks (if I have time)

That's for all of the help everyone, I will post here after I have tried and test the laptop cooler, just in case any one in the future has similar problems
 
Before you spend money buying a laptop cooler, I would recommend that you clean the cpu heatsink. It is prone to collecting dust on the inside which blocks off airflow. I have seen a similar issue in three different laptops and in all three cases it resolved the problem.

There are videos on YouTube showing you how to take specific laptop models apart. Find the one for your laptop and then decide whether it is something you want to attempt yourself.
 
My Nephew had an older i7 gaming laptop that was super slow (Thermal throttling), I reseated the CPU with some decent thermal paste. Sorted.
 
Just a shoutout to those who helped, I decided to try out the least invasive and cheapest option I had....

I propped the back of my laptop on 2 highlighter (free of charge) and Lo and behold, my laptop is CONSIDERABLY quieter and cooler....

It looks like it just wasn't getting adequate air flow.

So I think that I may invest in a R250 Laptop cooler to see if I can improve it further.

Then I may change the thermal paste just for kicks (if I have time)

That's for all of the help everyone, I will post here after I have tried and test the laptop cooler, just in case any one in the future has similar problems

For random freezing problems with my acer laptop, I tried the solutions from the link:
https://www.corenetworkz.com/2019/09/acer-aspire-laptop-freezes-randomly.html

I fixed the Windows APIPA problem on my acer aspire laptop. https://www.corenetworkz.com/2008/02/how-to-resolve-issue-when-ip-getting-is.html
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Assuring adequate airflow will reduce overheating problems. You mentioned the task manager often display 100% CPU usage.

Did you check which process consuming the CPU more?
 
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Clean out the dust bunnies, normally do it every 3rd month and the stuff that comes out of some of the electronics is rather miff.
 
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