Brand New Asus Zenbook Pro Overheating

[Rishi_Nair]

Hi everyone,

I recently (2 days ago) got an Asus Zenbook Pro UX501JW laptop as a portability/very light gaming machine. However, I've been noticing that with very minimal load (10-20% cpu usage, 20-30% ram) the laptop beings to overheat and the fan gets very loud. Primarily I've been suing this for document editing, watching YouTube and movies, and played CS:GO once. According to speedfan the cpu temperature is 55 degrees Celsius, and this is with only chrome and spotify open. When i ran light games like CS and TF2 the temps jumped up too 70-80 degrees. Is this normal and I'm just paranoid or should I be worried and exchange this machine?

Specs:
CPU: 2.6GHz Intel Core i7-4720HQ (quad-core, 6MB cache, up to 3.6GHz with Turbo Boost)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M (2GB GDDR5 RAM), Intel HD Graphics 4600
RAM: 16GB DDR3L (1600MHz)
Screen: 15.6-inch, 3840 x 2160 IPS Display
Storage: 512GB PCIe x4 SSD

Thank you very much

 

[TechyInAZ]

80C is normal, especially for ultra books. That's the unfortunate side effect of ultra light weight/thin laptops for gaming, and is the primary reason why I rarely ever recommend ultra thin gaming laptops for gaming.