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Extreme periodic performance drops only in specific games, CPU temperature shoots up rapidly for no apparent reason

Can somebody please help me understand why these massive performance spikes are happening? https://youtu.be/v2P6i-WWP_0 This only affects specific games like Battlefield 2042 and The Division 2. ...
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Is my cpu damaged, or is there something else wrong

I have had this problem for a month now; let me explain how and when it began exactly one day in some spring vacation, I had turned off my computer for the night after gaming with a few friends on it; ...
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TLP vs sysfsutils for limiting machine temperature

Let's say we wish to keep our desktop, which runs Debian stable (with some minor upgrades from snapshots), relatively cool (e.g. because the machine has only passive cooling) by limiting the machine ...
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CPU 100% busy and computer very slow (from time to time)

I have a problem that something causes my computer to run at 100% cpu usage but nothing is in general processing. It looks like something is breaking up because suddenly all running processes got 10x ...
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CPU temperature issue but cpu core not full used

I think I have a problem with my processor. I recently changed my I5-9400KF to an I7-12700KF (I also changed my motherboard to the LGA1700 socket). But since I changed, my CPU temperature is very high ...
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Dell XPS 13 CPU Temps

I have a 2019 Dell XPS13 7390 with 10th Gen Intel Core i7 CPU. The original fan failed so I bought a replacement. The has the heatsink attached. The new unit had a square of what I believe to be grey ...
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MacBook Pro CPU temperature too high?

I have a MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019, Intel), and the CPU temperature when the computer is idle, is around 70° Celsius: Is this a normal temperature for the idle status, or is this temperature too ...
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Intel Turbo overheats my CPU

I have a MSI GF75 Thin 10SCSR laptop with Intel Core I7 10750H CPU. When turbo is on, each core's FID increases up to 45 and CPU temperature reaches 85-90C while gaming. But while turbo is off, FID is ...
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is 90c normal for i7-9750H in laptop

is 90c normal for i7-9750H when playing games in laptop and 85c for GTX 1660 TI
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CPU core temp MUCH higher than package temp

The CPU core temperature is MUCH higher than the package. The core sometime reaches 105 degrees Celsious and the package barely reaches 60 Celsious. Why is that? Will this damage my CPU? I got an AMD ...
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Can someone tell me why my laptop's showing such high temps? I'm unable to run most of the things i could run before

screenshot of task manager sorted by cu usagehttps://i.stack.imgur.com/xtS4t.jpg video of ask manager processes my temperatures reach upto a 100 degree celsius sometimes.Most of the time they're at 80 ...
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How can the temperature of the processor, in less than 1 second, jump from 44*C to 54*C?

Im monitoring my processor temperatures on a 5930K and for a few of the cores, I see the temperatures jumping from about 44-46C to 53-56C in a instant, and then a few seconds later, a instant jump ...
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What is the normal temperature range of Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz?

I was using this command to read the temperature of cpu: cat /sys/class/thermal/thermal_zone0/temp Then I was looking for some other options and suddenly found that there is another option to find out ...
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Location of temperature sensors on the mainboard?

I installed PSensor in order to monitor and adjust the CPU fan speed on my ThinkPad R60 (which was overheating) and was surprised to find a total of 14 different temperature readings: It seems there ...
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Cpu not boosting when undervolting

First of all here is my spec & configuration: Ryzen 5 3500 3.6Ghz(stock) Inno3d gtx1070 8Gb(stock) Team TForce Vulcan z 2x8gb 3000Mhz(OC to 3200Mhz) Asrock B450M steel legend Except for memory, ...
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Cpu overheating while playing video games

My PC specs are . I3 G3260 PROCESSOR . INTEL 4600 HD GRAPHICS . 4GB RAM STORAGE This is not a monster configuration for gaming but I can easily run games like Tf2 and Witcher 1 on this device ...
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Fans go to max without CPU stress in Arch Linux

My fans run very fast sometimes when I play media in Firefox (music, videos, video streams); sometimes even a notification sound from social media sites is enough. It does not always happen but it ...
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CPU Temperature suddenly to high

After I came back from holiday (computer was off for a few days). I startet my computer and run into this error message during boot: Photo of the error message during boot: Photo of BIOS information:...
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Is it possible to show an overlay with CPU temp and freq when not playing?

I actually learned to use RTSS and HWinfo to display an overlay with CPU temp and CPU frequency, but this solution seems to work only when I'm playing. There is a way or another program that can add ...
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Does spread spectrum clocking degrade a CPU's performance and cause it to operate at higher temperatures?

Does spread spectrum clocking cause a CPU to operate at higher temperatures? If so, why? Spread spectrum clocking minutely varies a CPU's clock speed to spread out RFI to meet FCC and EU guidelines. ...
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Which is hotter (in temperature): i5 or i7? - 8th gen, both 15W [closed]

I'm specifically interested in the i5-8250U vs its alternative, the i7-8550U. I've seen this review about a Thinkpad that has been tested thoroughly with the i5-8250U processor. But right now where I ...
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CPU throttling: energy_performance_preferences

I was looking at ways to keep the CPU cool when running long jobs (40-70 mins long) that use all available cores at maximum available frequency. Also I have a lot of these jobs to run. First I came ...
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Lowering the throttling temperature in Windows 8 for a laptop

I've seen a lot of posts about disabling the throttling temperatures but none regarding setting them. I have an Acer V17 Nitro, i7 laptop and it's CPU temperature reaches 95°C before throttling. It's ...
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Temperature on MAC and keyboard cover

I use the MacBook Pro and since it cost me expensive, I decided to add some security methods for it. I bought a special MacBook keyboard cover (on the left on the link here) in the hope that it will ...
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How does a large case size helps in better cooling

Still today everyone seem to prefer a bulky case for their desktop builds, even when modern motherboards (ITX) and power supply can be fitted in much compact place, so my question is, how does an ...
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Liquid metal between die and IHS: Problems with vertical mount?

While ambient air temperature and humidity stayed the same, temperatures on my Intel Core i7 6700k @stock are slightly increasing. It is cooled by a beQuiet Dark Rock Pro 3, thermal compound is Arctic ...
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Excessive Temp and Frequency Limiting Under Load

I've got a DG41WV Intel board running a Q6600 CPU with a stock cooler and a GeForce 8500 GT video card. I had been having some trouble with seemingly random crashes and allot of noise from the cooler ...
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Are the temperature and fan speed normal in my laptop?

My laptop is HP Pavilion DV6-6b51ea. The laptop is around 5 years 10 months old. Configuration: Intel Core i5 2430M 2.40 GHz 6 GB RAM x64 based processor ATI Radeon HD 6490M gpu Intel HD 3000 ...
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Is 70-80°C a safest operating temperature for PC?

I have AMD FX-8350 Octa core processor running at 4.0 Ghz stock speed on stock cooling fan. I also have ultra low end GT 610 Asus 0dB (no fan) 2GB graphics card. While gaming the CPU temperature is ...
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My CPU temperature is jumping down and up when browsing

When i'm just browsing the web (not watching a video) my CPU usage and temperature starts bouncing like a ball. It drops and then rises again. And now as im writing this my cpu fan is quiet like a cat ...
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Maximum Laptop CPU temperature?

I have an HP 15 -ay016nv with i5-6200U and while gaming the maximum CPU temperature is 69 Celsius , measured with RealTemp , and when CPU is idle the CPU temperature is 25-30 Celsius. Are these ...
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How do I make my FX-8350 stop throttling at 64ºC?

If my AMD FX-8350 reaches 64-65ºC it kinda resets to lower the temperature, then starts going up again, reaches 64ºC and goes down again. Here's a picture of it happening: The second dip is because ...
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Cpu shows very lows temperatures

I just built a new computer: CPU:Intel Core i5 6600k MOBO:GA-Z170X-GAMING 5 (REV 1.0) COOLER: Cooler Master EVO 212 The problem is that I got impossibly low CPU temperatures on my system (-1°C, -...
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Can CPU temperatures below "critical" cause severe permanent damage to my computer?

I have a Toshiba Satellite P755-S5215 laptop, from 2012. It's got a 2.2 GHz Intel Mobile i7-2670QM CPU, with a stock board and integrated graphics. It's a good workhorse, but sometimes it undergoes ...
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about cpu temp and fan speed

i've a problem im facing sometimes, my friends' PC had an intel pentium D dual core (3Ghz at 800Mhz FSB)was very slow, fan (3pin cooler master) running at ~1550RPM, ram 4gb running 35% load. i ...
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What's the right choice to run a cooler Cpu (quiter laptop)?

Assuming that on the same laptop with an intel "i-series" processor I could have exactly the same workload, in order to achieve the lowest cpu temperatures it would be better: Higher CPU clock speed, ...
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Lenovo laptop temperatures while gaming

I have been a little concerned lately because my laptop temperatures are a bit suspicious, I have a Lenovo Y400 and i've been monitoring my temperatures with HWMonitor and I found out that while I'm ...
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Can you cool a cpu with a case?

I thought about cooling the cpu without a fan. And it brought me to using the case of the computer as a heatsink to cool the cpu and other components. Is this possible?
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DVD drive seems to spin at a high speed with no disk inside - But CPU fan is the culprit, because of CPU high temperature

I am using Windows 7 (x64) and my DVD drive starts spinning slowly, then goes faster and keeps running so for tens of minutes: exactly the same behaviour as to normally use a disk, but with no disk! ...
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Will just a couple of thermal "trip" shutdowns typically damage a CPU?

The short version If a CPU gets so hot that the system turns itself off because of a thermal trip signal just a couple of times, is it likely that the CPU will be damaged? Or does the trip do its job,...
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