the best thing probably would be to not use laptops for these intensive cracking purposes. second thing could be to just use your CPU (install the Intel OpenCL Runtime for Intel Core and Xeon processors, yes this is true even for AMD CPUs). 3rd thing you could try is to use -w 1 to reduce the performance and therefore also the utilization/load/heat.
How do you measure the utilization ? It's very clear to us that the task manager doesn't report the correct Utilization (the windows task manager only works with very few built-in or whitelisted applications, like media players or editing software etc)... you can use something like afterburner or GPU-Z instead to see the GPU utilization... or otherwise just look at the hashcat status prompt (pressing the s key on your keyboard), it has a line mentioning the "Util", it should be 100%.
Yeah, doing intensive and long cracking jobs on a laptop that doesn't have (any at all or sometimes very bad) cooling solutions, is discouraged. Several laptops share the heatsink/cooling system between CPU and GPUs and than they even heat themself up because "connected"/shared.
How do you measure the utilization ? It's very clear to us that the task manager doesn't report the correct Utilization (the windows task manager only works with very few built-in or whitelisted applications, like media players or editing software etc)... you can use something like afterburner or GPU-Z instead to see the GPU utilization... or otherwise just look at the hashcat status prompt (pressing the s key on your keyboard), it has a line mentioning the "Util", it should be 100%.
Yeah, doing intensive and long cracking jobs on a laptop that doesn't have (any at all or sometimes very bad) cooling solutions, is discouraged. Several laptops share the heatsink/cooling system between CPU and GPUs and than they even heat themself up because "connected"/shared.