When playing any windows game the PC heats up to 90 no matter what it is doing. This doesnt happen a lot on other type of games like Wii or GC games (dolphin flatpak). Is there any solution or do I really need to find out how to disable TurboBoost?
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90C is fine, more important is the core speed and if it's throttling heavily which will impact performance.
If it's been several years it's also possible the thermal paste is not working as well anymore and needs to be replaced.