cpu spikes always
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kingmotox said:
well its probably thermal throttling. this uses as little CPU power as possible until the user activates an application...it speeds ALL the way up to open app faster(100%)...then once its done running it goes back down.(hence the rise and fall of CPU usage when you open windows and such) you can disable this in BIOS if you have a good mobo.but if its a manufactured computer it might not be accessible.
Praetor said:
does it go to 100% though??? mine usaully never goes that high unless i start benching from idle or something really big...do you know any other names for thermal throttling??? my moms laptop sounds exactly liek what his PC is doing...but its a laptop so i would be worried if it DIDNT have throttling..its not beneficial for desktop pc's (at least i never needed it for anything)
Depends on what you're launching. Anything from 30%-100% should be expected. For instance, you start Windows Media Player ... maybe a 30% jump...nothing special. You start Painkiller ... you'll get a 100% jump.
Nope! Dont use intel: i hate shit that upclocks and downclocks without my knowledge -- even for my laptop i manually set the clock speed and stuff ... ill be damned if they start reclocking on the spot when temperatures get high.
Praetor said:
its been on my AMD mobos from day 1...its on all PC's i though. Intel just claims to have developed it...cuz i had it on my NF2 EPOX board and my ABIT nf7-s board...just disabled it. it conserves battery power for laptops i guess...i use it cuz i take the laptop to my room and it only lasts about 3hrs..so if it was 100% al the time it'lldie in like an hour lol.
Praetor said:
ah...long battery life is always better..but my mom never unplugs hers so i can disable it. its really 1.8ghz(mobile2400)...but with throttling it runs 500mhz...very sad lol. it could really run prety fast...but it seems to lag up when its trying to use throttling...weird.
Alin.s said:
well its not really "unsafe" to disable it...especially on a desktop PC. with a laptop the worst thing that could happen is ur battery drains while ur doing sumthin and u lose data...other than that ive never had any problems with it. i disabled it from day 1 cuz its bad when overclocking.
kingmotox said:
how much ram do you have in your computer??? that sounds like a memory lag or something...if you have too many apps running at once and your memory is trying to work them all it will skip/freeze...especially WMP...thats one of the bigger apps. maybe im wrong...but sounds like maybe he needs more memory?
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