High idle temps for Core Ultra 155H

[DeathAndNoTaxes]

Bought a "Refurbished Good" Vivobook laptop a few months ago. Checked everything about the laptop and all was fine, just the advertised cosmetic damage. Today, my curiosity piqued and I knew that Intel Meteor Lake CPUs run fairly hot, but I actually never checked my own laptop. My laptop was basically idling for an hour around 10% usage, and the temperature on the MyASUS app showed around 80 C. My ambient room temperature is 27 C. Chatgpt said the CPU temp should be 35-50C. The fans look reasonably clean, and the fans run on Standard Mode which should be fine for an idling CPU.

Maybe the thermal paste is bad? Should i use another software to monitor?

[pressed_for_time]

Higher than expected idle temperatures on laptops can be caused by background processes such as file indexers. Might be worth seeing if Task Manager is showing anything.

[DeathAndNoTaxes]

The temperatures have cooled this morning. I ran the laptop on battery and turned on energy saver and turn fans to Whisper mode, started streaming some 4K60 video. CPU usage 9% and the CPU temperature was only 50C. Temps did rise when I turned off Energy saver and plugged in the laptop. My default power mode is "Performance mode" when plugged in. Kept streaming the video, E-core temps were stable around 70-75C while P-core temps fluctuated between 70-90C. I'm using HWiNFO.