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i have this ROG Strix GL 553 VD, on Win10 that wchich is acting up from the past 4 months, as almost no airflow from the vents despite i maxed out the rpm via ROG Control Center. this issue had me unable to play any games that heavily use the GPU as the heat will likely damage the internal components, and my cpu temp had been steady on 55+ degrees celcius on standby. i did brought my laptop to the local service center as i am still within 2 year warranty and had them replace the fan, but the problem still unsolved.
Do you hear noise? Maybe try another program? And please try measuring your temps and tell me. As 55c on a CPU is not bad, for being idle, sure, it’s a little above average, but on a laptop like that I don’t expect it to be too much better. Open a game, and use MSI afterburner to measure your GPU temps. CPU I would say is safe up to 80c, (and could technically go higher but on a laptop I would expect to throttle at that point and definitely further), but 70’s would be safest. GPU is about the same, but can really handle higher. 80c is fine for a GPU, and can really go up to 90c - 100c being fine but you wouldn’t want that as its constant temps. Looking up your laptop, people say it’s a pretty loud machine. Do you hear noise? Feeling air might be hard a laptop, best thing is to just hear it. If you can not hear it, while playing a game, then try using a different fan control program. Speed fan can work, although I have heard reports that it doesn’t allow you to control fan speed on it through a laptop. BUT. You can see the RPM of the fans still. Get that and see if it is doing anything.
fyi : at the first time i bought this laptop, the heat never goes above 40 degrees the thing is, the fan does rotate and it does sounds as if it still fully functioning. last time i brought it to the service center, the diagnostic tests all working just fine. but that does not change de fact that i need to use vacuum fan plus extra cooling fan to such out the heat of my laptop when i play Deus Ex : Mankind Divided even with the lowest resolutions and graphic settings available. i even set my Nvidia GTX 1050 graphical settings to the lowest for this game and still the heat warms up my entire laptop. frankly speaking, services provided by the ASUS Service Centers in my region were very bad. i described my issues hoping that they will try to figure out what was wrong (the fan still rotating but no air flowing out of it) but they just blame the drivers were not up to date, and they (without contacting me beforehand) went and reinstall my windows 10, and adding outdated drivers (as all of those newly drivers were in 2017, the year i bought my laptop) And when i installed Just Cause 3 to test it, somehow the technician switched the graphic processor from my Nvidia to the onboard intel hd630 with the lowest setting (i see everything literally pixelated afterward, even Just Cause 3 goes like colored sands splashing around on my screen) the most surprising thing is that he (technician himself) had no idea of how this GL553VD supposed to work. he just followed the standards of operations even without testing my laptop beforehand as he convinced everythin wrong was on the drivers not on the hardware. my gaming laptop can still function well for office use but i bought this laptop so i can play games to my hearts’ content. now i have spent 6+ months without gaming any AAA titles and i am suffering from it as for fan control, i have the gaming center from asus, there i even showed that despite the manually-maxed out fan boost, barely any air flows out of it. i was so angry that they insisted this is perfectly fine even after my game crashes due to overheat (the fan did not blow any air out of the system). i wanted to explain some science of thermodynamics in relations to cooling down the electrical components, but talking to these people are no difference than talking against walls
