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#1 Today 06:21:20
- Jodi42
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- From: India
- Registered: 2025-06-09
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My CPU is running hot at 98 temp but fans are not spinning fast enough
❯ cpupower frequency-info
analyzing CPU 1:
driver: amd-pstate-epp
CPUs which run at the same hardware frequency: 1
CPUs which need to have their frequency coordinated by software: 1
energy performance preference: balance_performance
hardware limits: 404 MHz - 4.79 GHz
available cpufreq governors: performance powersave
current policy: frequency should be within 1.10 GHz and 4.79 GHz.
The governor "powersave" may decide which speed to use
within this range.
current CPU frequency: Unable to call hardware
current CPU frequency: 4.32 GHz (asserted by call to kernel)
boost state support:
Supported: yes
Active: yes
amd-pstate limits:
Highest Performance: 166. Maximum Frequency: 4.79 GHz.
Nominal Performance: 111. Nominal Frequency: 3.20 GHz.
Lowest Non-linear Performance: 38. Lowest Non-linear Frequency: 1.10 GHz.
Lowest Performance: 14. Lowest Frequency: 400 MHz.
Preferred Core Support: 1. Preferred Core Ranking: 191.
❯ watch -n1 sensors
Every 1.0s: sensors arch: Mon 15 Jun 2026 11:49:44 AM IST
in 0.040s (0)
spd5118-i2c-19-51
Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter port 0 at 0b00
temp1: +60.0°C (low = +0.0°C, high = +55.0°C) ALARM (HIGH)
(crit low = +0.0°C, crit = +85.0°C)
hp-isa-0000
Adapter: ISA adapter
fan1: 3327 RPM
fan2: 2986 RPM
pwm1: N/A
amdgpu-pci-0600
Adapter: PCI adapter
vddgfx: 1.32 V
vddnb: 1.04 V
edge: +71.0°C
PPT: 30.00 W
sclk: 933 MHz
BAT0-acpi-0
Adapter: ACPI interface
in0: 12.92 V
power1: 0.00 W
mt7921_phy0-pci-0300
Adapter: PCI adapter
temp1: +66.0°C
spd5118-i2c-19-50
Adapter: SMBus PIIX4 adapter port 0 at 0b00
temp1: +62.5°C (low = +0.0°C, high = +55.0°C) ALARM (HIGH)
(crit low = +0.0°C, crit = +85.0°C)
k10temp-pci-00c3
Adapter: PCI adapter
Tctl: +97.2°C
nvme-pci-0500
Adapter: PCI adapter
❯ nvidia-smi
Mon Jun 15 11:44:31 2026
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 580.159.04 Driver Version: 580.159.04 CUDA Version: 13.0 |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 ... On | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N/A |
| N/A 64C P0 38W / 80W | 1140MiB / 8192MiB | 1% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| 0 N/A N/A 1284 G /usr/lib/Xorg 373MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 11725 C+G ghb 574MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 134668 G alacritty 10MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 135849 G ...rack-uuid=3190708988185955192 102MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 136478 G alacritty 10MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 136950 G alacritty 10MiB |
| 0 N/A N/A 137594 G alacritty 10MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+usually at this temps i would see fans spinning at 5000rpm but that is not happening anymore after the I updated my system. I am using handbrake right now.
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#2 Today 08:40:39
- seth
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- Registered: 2012-09-03
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Re: My CPU is running hot at 98 temp but fans are not spinning fast enough
Do you run any userspace https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Fan_speed_control or are the fans controlled by the firmware (UEFI)?
Does the CPU eventually rather clock down rather than the fans keeping it < 100°C?
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