XPS 15 7950 overheating issues

Hello everyone,

Since last week i have my new laptop, the Dell xps 15 7950.

CPU: i7 9750 2,7ghz - 4,5 ghz boost

GPU: nvidia geforce gtx 1650

RAM: 8gb

However I have been running in to some serious overheating issues.

 

Out of the box the temps where over 99c on almost all cores while playing a game (Divinity original sin 2) with the result of serious throttling and almost complete loss of FPS (down to around 5-10 fps).

 

The things is have done up till now are:

* repasting with kryonaut thermal paste

* undervolting to -179,7 mv on both Core and Cache using throttlestopper and also setting max turbo watt down to 70 instead of 90 and setting the turbo to a max of x39 on all 6 cores.

 

The result is that I have now got the temps down to a maximum of 90 and an average of about 85 while running Cinebench 15 in loops. (this excludes the first spike while fans are not running at max yet).

But this still leaves me with the question wether this is normal for these laptops? In my opinion 90c is still very hot concidering the agressive undervolt and downclock i got going right now. Could this be a kind of faulty hardware or is there more i can do to lower temps?

 

Love to hear from someone with more knowledge or with the same model.

Sincerely,

Rups