Laptop graphics processor throttled by heat

psteichen

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Dec 14, 2016
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I have a 5 year old Samsung laptop with an i7 and NVIDIA GeForce GT525M. I've found that when gaming the GPU can only run for around 5 minutes or less at max before throttling down to around 40% after its temperature hits 95° C. Do I have a particularly crapy laptop, or is this pretty common?