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Is my E2200 Throttling without letting me know?

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Wolfcastle

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I've got my CPU oced to 3GHz. The thing is, even when I bump it up a bit, in RMClock, the temp never goes above 68c with Prime95 v25.6 even though the room temp at 80c results in 68c CPU temps in RMClock.

I suspect that some kind of thermal control on the CPU is active, but I don't know how much it's throttling if at all.

Any ideas?
 
Originally posted by: Wolfcastle
I've got my CPU oced to 3GHz. The thing is, even when I bump it up a bit, in RMClock, the temp never goes above 68c with Prime95 v25.6 even though the room temp at 80c results in 68c CPU temps in RMClock.

I suspect that some kind of thermal control on the CPU is active, but I don't know how much it's throttling if at all.

Any ideas?
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68C is a little high, but acceptable, for CPU at 3GHz.

However, how and where are you measuring the Room Temp ??

Because if it really is at 80C ---> then either, you very quickly died in that extremely hot room, or, you weren't actually in it whilst making that particular temp measurement?

🙂
 
Alive and well, but apparently a bit too dazed to get the temp right. The room temp was 90f.

Anyhow, what I wanted to get at was whether Core 2 Duos have some internal throttling that kicks in when it goes above 70 or 72c but where an app like RMClock might not be able to detect it.

I just wanted to make sure I wasn't fooling myself into thinking that my computer could handle just about any speed just because the CPU would never go over 72c or something like what it's highest rated temp was supposed to go up to before some throttling mechanism within the CPU itself would kick in.
 
Check your BIOS, there's probably a Thermal Management setting. Go through your motherboard manual to make finding it easier. And like BlueAcolyte said, fire up CPU-z so you'll see your actual speeds.

-z
 
RMClock can detect if a CPU is throttling. If it didn't say so, then it wasn't. My E2410s @ 3.2Ghz, 1.425v (BIOS) hit 85C under load in CoreTemp, and they don't throttle.
 
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