Is your laptop set to maximum performance mode in power settings and gpu settings?
For nvidia gpu this should be set
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That's not going to help, it needs to be able to downclock to cool down and free up power.
Yes it set to maximum performance. Actually I think some windows service broking it. Like DWM.exe it controls all graphic management.
Like this ?
@Mussels
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Looking at this:
Maximum results show CPU never passed 3.6GHz, but did max out at 100% usage
It still hit 80C, your throttle temperature
The CPU itself did not throttle, which implies the board itself has a throttle feature at 80C. This is pretty common.
Total system has a wattage max of 90W, so any extra power used on the GPU will detract from the CPU, and vice versa - you'd have to check the wattage of your power brick
GPU sat at 60C with a 73c hotspot, well inside the 'Good' range. Maximum of 40W power used for it, also good.
You need to redo the thermal paste on your CPU, and clean out the CPU's heatsink - it seems to have seperate cooling to the GPU, and the GPU cooling is doing fine.
To test what i mean with the CPU throttling, run cinebench R23 and watch the CPU clocks. They should hit your 3.6GHz you've set, but the "effective clocks" will dip up and down.
you'll need to expand the sections here to see it, but basically the laptops motherboard cuts the VID to the CPU to downclock it, faster than most software can see it - so you need a constant all core load to keep the values sustained, so you can see what they remain at.
This will only be accurate and useful if you check these results while the CPU is at 100% load, not after
At anything other than an a full all core load, this isnt reliable as sleep-states also lower effective clocks.
