The laptop I use, is had an AMD CPU and GPU. With 6.6* Variant of Kernel, I had issue, that the CPU Scaling was very aggressive. Maybe because it is a gaming laptop. Bios Update fix that and with the 6.7 Kernel run really smooth. The work with p-state parameter, not convince me. Cause the values a written fix in the bios. And if the producer of the laptop, don’t allow scaling the temperature curve, need some deep hack and don’t want to lose the guarantee, in case the laptop brick.
well yeah, it heats up your room while performing computing tasks 
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Thank you everyone for attempting to help me resolve my problem.
Firstly about cleaning my laptop, I clean the fans and change the thermal paste once every 6 months, so I’m pretty sure this is not the problem. Now when I switch to nvidia (performance) from intel only using prime-select the cpu idle temperature is around 48 degrees. This left me wondering if there were some problems with the latest intel display drivers or is the fan spinning slower than it actually should for the cpu load causing poor heat dissipation.
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Holy moly…that’s great of course, but the frequency is surely overkill…I doubt it should be changed even every year.
Are you running it with the Intel driver xf86-video-intel? Maybe try uninstalling that reboot and run on the kernel module. Changing thermal paste that often is just a waste. If you are using the best thermal paste that gives the best cooling properties and applying it properly i don’t think you need to do that for a year or a number of years.
I was about to make a post about this, but I’m going to try @Pudge 's advice first. I’ve been running this on an HP Envy with an 8th gen i7/16gb RAM, and for the last week or so my RAM and CPU usage have been surprisingly high at idle.