How does one optimize for better system temperatures on Linux while doing heavy tasks (e.g. gaming) during summer heat.

Are there tools for creating ‘gaming/balanced/economy’ profiles for example that limit the GPU and CPU depending on the requirements?

Should I find a way to customize fan speeds?

I am trying to find everything I should do from the software perspective before I move on to buying better cooling hardware.

I am currently reaching 100+ celsius temps maximum on both the GPU and CPU while gaming, on idle it’s like this:

System info:

  • Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    2 hours ago

    I find that setting the power profile to “Power-Saver” makes a huge difference.

    KDE has support for that built-in, although I’m not sure, if distributions install the corresponding daemon on desktop systems: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/upower/power-profiles-daemon

    You should be able to cycle through power profiles with Meta+B on KDE.
    You can also see and change the profile via the systray icon for the battery, but on a desktop system, that presumably won’t be shown by default.

    Otherwise, powerprofilesctl is also an option, as described in that link.