Having trouble making MSI laptop keep cool when gaming.

[Grim505]

I have an MSI GF65 thin laptop that is a year or two old. It has a RTX 3060 and an intel i7-10750H CPU. It runs great but it tends to overheat a lot, especially during the summer months here in the middle east, having an average CPU temp of 95C and a GPU temp of 75C when playing something like Apex Legends (Heat measurements according to MSI dragon center and touching the laptop and saying “wow, that’s hot”). This happens even when I have my Klim Cobra cooling pad under it and a fan aimed partially at it. I’ve tried changing power settings and setting max processor state to 90%-95% which helped initially but not anymore. I’ve heard about undervolting but the tutorials I found use throttlestop which doesn’t let me access the voltage settings for some reason (I think I read that some kind of BIOS update that forbids undervolting?). I’m not particularly computer savvy so I would like some help getting my laptop to not melt itself.

[Bruce]

I would have said an active cooling pad was your best bet, but it sounds like you already have one, but maybe it is not the best fit.
see if there are better ones with the fans more directly aligned, or more fans, or bigger fans.
that sort of thing.

there’s not a lot of options with laptops for extra cooling.

[georgeks]

Have you tried cleaning the ventilation slots with compressed air?

Just be careful not to blow the air directly onto the slots: you may break the plastic covers.

[Bruce]

@Grim505 - any news?

[Bruce]

Grim,
you logged in today but didn’t respond.
I’ll assume all is well and close this thread.