#GPU not used

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deep sable
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On FurMark, the GPU reaches 98%, 56°C and CPU on 60%

deep sable
brave fractal
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Please do a 3Dmark benchmark run and an HWIINFO sensor page

mellow summitBOT
deep sable
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here the cpu is totally maxxed out too

clear lotus
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It hit 100C at 65W. Even though Intel's stock cooler leaves a lot to be desired, it should be able to do 100W

deep sable
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so i should change it N

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?

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like send it back and get one back ?

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or is it fixable, because this wasn't like that before i believe

clear lotus
deep sable
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well its only like 2-3 weeks old so i'm sure its not because its dirty

clear lotus
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Also, of concern is that you're using a very old, low capacity SSD as your boot drive

deep sable
clear lotus
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I'm not sure how you got this (was this reused?), but this SSD has a long-term data slowdown bug, in addition to just being slow

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I'd get a new SSD and retire it as soon as you can

deep sable
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i got it like 10 years ago, its 200gb and the other stuff are on my HDDs and its horrible to use so i'm gonna get one soon anyways

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but why is the cpu maxxed out

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it can't be from the thermal paste

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and its only when gaming

clear lotus
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@brave fractal

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It may explain why your score is lower than the average by a noticeable margin

deep sable
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yeah but look at the graphs

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its constantly around 90-100%

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while graphical test 1 and 2

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and CPU test it reached 150%

clear lotus
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some apps measure CPU usage weird but as far as we're concerned, it's only maxed out at the third part

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it does give the cpu a lot of work in the first two parts but that's not the main point

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either way, you probably already noticed that your cpu is at 100c

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it didn't even need to finish graphics test 2

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for it to hit 100c

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100c = cpu starts to slow down

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I suspect the cpu cooler was not mounted correctly OR the free paste with the cooler was touched

deep sable
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yeah but that's not really the main problem, when i got the pc it was at like 60°C and was at like max 65% usage on the games i play, even though right now, whatever game it is, either minecraft, warzone, cs2 etc, gpu can go to 100% but the cpu is just always, like ALWAYS at a 100%, on idle its on 1%, in games it shows 100% everywhere

brave fractal
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and throttling with lower clock speeds

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basically the CPU regulate and tries to cool itself down since your cooler didn't work

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so it basically slows down to prevent further damage

deep sable
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and thats why it goes all the way up to 100%?

brave fractal
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That means lower clock speeds and performance

brave fractal
deep sable
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yeah

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thats not normal

brave fractal
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Since your CPU is already slowed down, but the load remains the same

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so now your CPU actually struggles

deep sable
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yeah but wait this i get it, i know theres thermal throttling and bottleneck but

brave fractal
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so basically you downgraded from an i5 to an i3

deep sable
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yeah but the usage should stay the same like its still the same cores with the same capacity but just less usage and frequency ?

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why is it hitting 100% usage on every game

brave fractal
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clock speed here means how many cycles a CPU can do to process instructions

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You are being throttled

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Let's say a game needs 10 cycles to complete a frame

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Your CPU can process 20 cycles to complete a frame

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so your usage would be 50% ish

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but since your CPU is throttled, the speed goes down and only process 8 or 5 cycles to complete a frame

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but the game still needs 10 cycles to complete a frame

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so yes it's 100% usage or even more as the CPU struggles to complete that 10 cycles to produce a frame

deep sable
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alright i get it more now i didn't know it wasn't working like this

brave fractal
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Your CPU is overheating

deep sable
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for me the usage was always constant no matter the throttle

brave fractal
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basic knowledge tells you should fix that

deep sable
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today or tomorrow

brave fractal
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Stop trying to to find excuses for your laziness

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Just saying

deep sable
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not that it was a 100% because it was overheating

deep sable
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and its not my main pc

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but yeah i'll try and tell you again, thank you i know i probably pissed you both off

deep sable
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@brave fractal @clear lotus i changed the thermal paste, i used MX-4, cpu dropped from only 20% on the cpu test, other than that its still fully maxxed out.

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Can that be from a virus or whatever ?

brave fractal
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Redo the 3dmark test again and the HWINFO test

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and also show the task manager processes as well

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And then also tell us what games are affected and what game settings you are using

deep sable
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i don't have enough time im leaving soon but, on the cpu test, it dropped from 150 to 130, warzone is affected and, its taking only between 40-50% of the cpu, even though the cpu is maxxed out, i shut down the pc i'll do those tomorrow

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cpu was around 70% now tho

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though temps are kinda the same

brave fractal
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CPU cooler

deep sable
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default intel one

brave fractal
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intel stock cooler are trash

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Get yourself something like a deepcool cooler or something

deep sable
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yeah but i definetly don't think its because of the cooler, i would have had that issue before

brave fractal
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open your hwinfo test and do a 3dmark test to confirm

deep sable
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i did one and the temps were still at 100°C

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i don't have the screenshots though

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the cpu is just maxxing itself out whenever any 3d is running on the pc

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even on minecraft

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or roblox or whatever you know, whatever 3d

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the gpu was maxxed out on wz though on the last match i did before leaving

brave fractal
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At this point you need to change your cooler

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100C is not normal

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you can try going to the bios and set the CPU fan speed to 100% all the time if it helps

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but I would just get a new cooler at this point as the Intel stock cooler is basically a waste

clear lotus
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but anyway just get a new one

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(try a thermalright)

deep sable
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do tou recommend any ? or will just anything fit to this cpu

deep sable
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i think i'm gonna go with the Thermalright Assassin X120 SE

clear lotus
deep sable
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what ?

clear lotus
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new cooler soon, thermal issues begone.