u/pwnznewbz

I bought this about 2 weeks ago. I have it plugged into a 2k monitor and am playing the Adventures of Elliott (not a super graphically intense game). My cpu while playing is sitting around 97 degrees C, which seems fairly hot or above toasty for a laptop.

I have it lifted onto a cooling pad from amazon, so fans and airflow shouldn't be an issue.

Is this normal? I changed the user scenario to cooler boost on extreme performance and the cpu temp drops to ~80 degrees but the fans are running extremely fast and loudly to do that.

Any advice is welcome; if it's normal, I'll worry less.