This is more of a query but I set up a HP Pavilion 15-p157sa laptop with Zorin OS 17 but running the Cinnamon DE for a friend. I believe it's always had an issue with getting hot and I thought it was just when it was running Windows 10. While doing some tests I noticed the CPU went up to 50% when moving the mouse around the screen and worst when moving the mouse over tabs in Waterfox. When running Freetube the temperature peaks between 65-70C as the CPU runs high.
I was curious if anyone has any suggestions on how to lower the laptops need to use a lot of CPU while not doing too much despite already being in power saver mode.
Some sellers... hoping to gain a reputation for Fast Computers overclock what they sell.
This happened to me. I was fighting high temps too often because of OverVolting and Overclocking.
Where things get interesting... Undervolting my machine not only cooled it significantly, it created a sharp increase in performance.
You can perform this within the BIOS advanced settings on Gigabyte motherboards.
This, of course, assumes you have cleaned the fans, tried thermald and the usual suspects.
Your CPU is an Intel I-5 4288U, which is a dual core chip using the Haswell architecture, which was released in 2013.
Movement of the mouse driving CPU usage up to 50%, was most certainly common back in the 1990's era chips, which was why benchmark software always said, "don't move the mouse." lol
I'm curious to know, if you are using the built in trackpad on the notebook, or if you are using a top end mouse with a high poling rate. Typically, high poling rate mice
(think 1000 hertz) can put substantial load on old chips.
Aint that the truth! Were seeing that a lot these days from secret shopper rounds. Buy a pre-built computer sight unseen, putting faith in the company to do it right. You get a computer delivered with lose screws, has a different GPU then you picked out, and is overclocked, it chokes on the heat it generates from its lack of adequate cooling.
@Aravisian I've heard of underclocking so I'll get I'll try my hand at it with the links. @StarTreker No, I was using the trackpad when testing the mouse.
You could clean up the Air Vents, the Fan and put on fresh Thermal Paste. On a Laptop not the nicest Work, I know. but it could help.
Another Thing would be to use Zorin Lite. Or do You already use it? In Your Profile isn't this Info. Or try another Distro like MX Linux with xfce for Example.
The vents have been cleaned and it recently got the CPU repasted. Actually I remember the guy who did it mentioned something about the CPU throttling itself when I asked if there was a reason it still got hot after repasting. It's running Zorin 17 Pro though a lot of the programs have been uninstalled as they weren't being used and to lighten the load.
