Laptop temperature on idle is 60 degrees Celsius

I have dual boot and noticed that laptop gets way warmer on Manjaro than on Windows 10.
I looked around and tried to tweak things.
I switched off turbo boost.
Switched off balooctl.
Installed thermald.
And yet after I turn on my laptop I’m still getting 55-60 degree temperatures.

paste <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/type) <(cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone*/temp) | column -s $'\t' -t | sed 's/...$/.0°C/'
INT3400 Thermal  20.0°C
SEN1             47.0°C
SEN2             47.0°C
SEN3             47.0°C
pch_cannonlake   55.0°C
B0D4             53.0°C
x86_pkg_temp     53.0°C
iwlwifi_1        60.0°C

PCH seems to be common issue, I’m not so sure about iwlwifi. d
I have only browser open right now and the back of my laptop is hot.
This doesn’t happen, or at least I never noticed it, on Windows 10 unless I game.
I have integrated and NVIDIA 1550ti, via Optimus I set NVIDIA as default.

That’s your WiFi chip. Something is wrong if it’s hotter than your CPU. Are your fans working? Maybe it’s time to clean out the dust bunnies.

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Well, I tried to blow some dust away, but it didn’t look too bad, I can feel the fans at 55-60 degrees, though I don’t hear them. It’s just that it doesn’t overheat on Windows with the same hardware.

Which is? Please post your system info as outlined here:

Sure.

System:
  Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64 
  root=UUID=29deaf49-34de-4405-862c-b7c9df170718 ro quiet apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.21.3 tk: Qt 5.15.2 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM 
  Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 81FV v: Lenovo Legion Y530-15ICH 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 v: Lenovo Legion Y530-15ICH 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: NO DPK serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO 
  v: 8JCN44WW date: 08/13/2018 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 43.2 Wh (98.0%) condition: 44.1/52.5 Wh (84.1%) 
  volts: 12.6 min: 11.4 model: CPT-COS L17C3PG1 type: Li-poly serial: <filter> 
  status: Unknown 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 15.51 GiB used: 1.88 GiB (12.1%) 
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-8300H bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6 model-id: 9E (158) stepping: A (10) 
  microcode: DE cache: L2: 8 MiB bogomips: 36812 
  Speed: 800 MHz min/max: 800/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 
  4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon art 
  avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid 
  cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb erms est f16c flush_l1d 
  fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida 
  intel_pt invpcid invpcid_single lahf_lm lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor 
  movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm 
  pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp 
  rep_good sdbg sep smap smep ss ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp 
  syscall tm tm2 tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer vme x2apic xgetbv1 xsave 
  xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel 
  bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] vendor: Lenovo 
  driver: nvidia v: 460.56 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10de:1c8c class-ID: 0300 
  Device-3: IMC Networks Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo 
  bus-ID: 1-6:3 chip-ID: 13d3:56a6 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.10 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: 
  loaded: modesetting,nvidia display-ID: :0 screens: 1 
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2") 
  s-diag: 582mm (22.9") 
  Monitor-1: eDP-1-1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142 
  size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 395mm (15.5") 
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 460.56 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Cannon Lake PCH cAVS vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel 
  v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl,snd_sof_pci bus-ID: 00:1f.3 
  chip-ID: 8086:a348 class-ID: 0403 
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO running: yes 
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 0.125.0 running: no 
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 14.2 running: yes 
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.23 running: no 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 Plus Bluetooth driver: iwlwifi 
  v: kernel port: 4000 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:3166 class-ID: 0280 
  IF: wlp7s0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global 
  broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus-ID: 08:00.0 
  chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200 
  IF: enp8s0 state: down mac: <filter> 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 
  bus-ID: 1-14:4 chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001 
  Report: This feature requires one of these tools: hciconfig/bt-adapter 
Logical:
  Message: No LVM data was found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found. 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 1.36 TiB used: 1.03 TiB (75.4%) 
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required. 
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung 
  model: SSD 970 EVO Plus 500GB size: 465.76 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B 
  logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 rotation: SSD serial: <filter> 
  rev: 2B2QEXM7 temp: 38.9 C scheme: GPT 
  ID-2: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 
  size: 931.51 GiB block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  rotation: 5400 rpm serial: <filter> rev: LCM2 scheme: MBR 
  Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 120.56 GiB size: 118.17 GiB (98.02%) 
  used: 96.24 GiB (81.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p5 maj-min: 259:5 
  label: N/A uuid: 29deaf49-34de-4405-862c-b7c9df170718 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 100 MiB size: 96 MiB (96.00%) 
  used: 25.2 MiB (26.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 
  label: N/A uuid: 0227-CDD9 
  ID-3: /run/media/ww/9270B63170B61BC3 raw-size: 585.89 GiB 
  size: 585.89 GiB (100.00%) used: 545.32 GiB (93.1%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda2 
  maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A uuid: 9270B63170B61BC3 
  ID-4: /run/media/ww/A03229043228E0D0 raw-size: 336.59 GiB 
  size: 336.59 GiB (100.00%) used: 68.14 GiB (20.2%) fs: ntfs 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 label: N/A uuid: A03229043228E0D0 
  ID-5: /run/media/ww/CEB24C78B24C66D5 raw-size: 344.63 GiB 
  size: 344.63 GiB (100.00%) used: 343.4 GiB (99.6%) fs: ntfs dev: /dev/sda3 
  maj-min: 8:3 label: N/A uuid: CEB24C78B24C66D5 
  ID-6: /run/media/ww/EE5C-6E50 raw-size: 1000 MiB size: 996 MiB (99.60%) 
  used: 19.7 MiB (2.0%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: N/A 
  uuid: EE5C-6E50 
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default) 
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 
  dev: /dev/nvme0n1p6 maj-min: 259:6 label: N/A 
  uuid: d6a68c8b-f4f7-468c-aea3-76e30d93873d 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 size: 16 MiB fs: <superuser required> 
  label: N/A uuid: N/A 
  ID-2: /dev/nvme0n1p4 maj-min: 259:4 size: 507 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: EC128B74128B4316 
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 16 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900 
  Device-1: 1-2:2 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: Keyboard,Mouse,HID 
  driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  power: 98mA chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300 
  Device-2: 1-6:3 info: IMC Networks Integrated Camera type: Video 
  driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA 
  chip-ID: 13d3:56a6 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter> 
  Device-3: 1-14:4 info: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: Bluetooth 
  driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s power: 100mA 
  chip-ID: 8087:0a2a class-ID: e001 
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 8 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s 
  chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: nvidia temp: 49 C 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 281 Uptime: 3m wakeups: 1 Init: systemd v: 247 tool: systemctl 
  Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 11.1.0 Packages: 1535 pacman: 1528 lib: 488 
  flatpak: 0 snap: 7 Shell: Bash v: 5.1.0 running-in: yakuake inxi: 3.3.03

5.9 is EOL (End Of Life) and has not received any updates since December. Try either the latest stable kernel which is currently 5.11 or an LTS (Long Term Support) kernel like 5.10 or 5.4.

There’s also a BIOS update available.

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Thanks a lot. I switched to 11 and updated BIOS, I think it helped.

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