Inspiron 5593 idle overheating

I can only give you my experience with my 5593 and a Core i5 10th gen. The top part of keyboard above function keys gets warm, sometimes very warm and the fan ramps up very quickly. I know from briefly trying Linux Ubuntu that I did not experience much difference vs Windows except of course worse battery life. Not sure what Linux distro your using but these 10th gen CPU's require a more recent kernel to work properly. But since your experiencing more issues with Linux than Windows I would say your problem is software not hardware issues. These days with more cores and thin notebooks they run pretty hot. Intel says that 80 to 90C is not uncommon and should not be considered abnormal operation. I can definitely say running test like Prime 95 that stresses all cores makes the 5593 very warm to hot in certain places on keyboard due to location of CPU under it. In my opinion Dell juggled making the notebook fan quieter over increasing its speed faster for better thermal management. I know for myself this will be my last "thin" designed notebook I will buy.

Thanks for your response.

It definitely looks like the design is not optimal by any means, when it comes to heat management. However, I had solved the problem the previous time by just turning off the Intel Turbo Boost option. I suppose it could be that the newest kernel (which I have, 5.3.0-59-generic) may have issues with this laptop. I have also updated BIOS. I will check what happens with different kernels, it's possible that one of the previous had no problems with temperatures.

I may have found a solution:

sudo apt-get install thermald
This package should do the following:

Thermal daemon looks for thermal sensors and thermal cooling drivers in the Linux thermal sysfs (/sys/class/thermal) and builds a list of sensors and cooling drivers. Each of the thermal sensors can optionally be binded to a cooling drivers by the in kernel drivers. In this case the Linux kernel thermal core can directly take actions based on the temperature trip points, for each sensor and associated cooling device. For example a trip temperature X in a sensor can be associates a cooling driver Y. So when the sensor temperature = X, the cooling driver "Y" is activated.

Since I installed it and rebooted, I have only 4 occurrences of overheating with uptime of 2 hours.

I wonder, why this useful package was not pre-installed, but never mind.

Hi RuskinF,

Thanks for your response. I had already installed thermald the previous time I was experiencing this issue. As I said in my other reply, the newest kernel may have caused the reappearance of this problem. Nevertheless, you can't really call this overheating, it's running at 60 degrees, but it's very annoying to my fingers.

Is everyone still having the heating issue?

Yes, same issue till now. Doing anything on the laptop makes it to go up to 85.