Slovedon Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 All of my systems before now have been mostly GPU bound, so I'm not completely familiar with the CPU testing side of things. I believe my CPU is poorly pasted, and overheating/throttling more than it should. What is the best program/procedure to test this? Any other related advice is also welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3hFirefly Posted August 24, 2013 Share Posted August 24, 2013 I would say look for the average temperature of the Processor. From what I've seen around the net 60C is the highest idle temp. With it having a safe operating of 100C. I would say Get "Core Temp" and "CPUZ" and do some benchmarking with a few resource intensive games and browsing internet pages with a bunch of flash objects (flash objects always seem to mess with the temp and clock speeds of my AMD APUs I don't see why intel would be any different). See if the Clock Speed jumps around and the Temp climbs real fast. If the CPU gets to about 95C and stays there I might check the thermal and replace it with some high grade thermal overclockers use. If you want to play it safe I would get a cooling pad for the laptop. (I assume its a laptop seeing how it has a 3610QM) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captmario Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 I recommend Intel XTU program, you can monitor temps, CPU clocks and CPU Utlization all in a single graph. and a side menu also shows max and min of everything. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator BAKED Posted August 26, 2013 Moderator Share Posted August 26, 2013 You should use intel XTU as Captmario suggested, i will also show throttling if supported. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peniku8 Posted August 26, 2013 Share Posted August 26, 2013 You could use super pi to monitor your CPU while benchmarking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
curl237 Posted August 27, 2013 Share Posted August 27, 2013 i think u shoul closely monitor ur temps, if it gets near 100 on a regular basis pls consider repasting ur cpu and clean some dust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slovedon Posted August 29, 2013 Author Share Posted August 29, 2013 My god, it's throttling 30-45% though most of the XTU benchmark... Could Prema's BIOS mod increasing the turbo time to 120s artificially inflate this number?Looks like I need to buy some thermal paste. I hope that's the issue, and not a bad CPU. I'm getting 340 marks on XTU, where online scores are mostly at 560+ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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