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Hi All So this issue is completely random, it can happen when gaming, it can also happen when doing something very lightweight. It last happened about an hour ago when I had the log running. I'll get a blackscreen on all 3 monitors, followed by a restart after about 20 seconds. I did run a log since this morning until the issue happened, but honestly I'm not the best at interpreting the logs against which piece of hardware (if it is a hardware issue). Could anyone take a look? Many thanks! Here are my PC's specs (from my profile): CPU AMD R9 3950X Motherboard Aorus x570 Xtreme RAM 64GB Corsair Dominator Platinum CL14 3466Mhz GPU MSI Rtx 3080ti Suprim x Case Lian Li O11 Dynamic XL Storage 3x Seagate Firecuda 520 500gb NVME Gen 4 PSU Corsair HX1200 Display(s) AOC U4309V Cooling Custom hardline loop: 2x360mm Bykski thick radiators, 1x360mm Bykski slim radiator, Coolermaster SF fans HWinfo_2024-01-19.CSV

does anybody know why this error pops up??? it gives sometimes issues while gaming

Hi all! I've seen a couple of similar posts here, but nothing that maps well enough to the problems I've been having, so I figured I'd start a new thread and hope it works out. Some stats to start off with: i9-10900K with a 360mm AIO cooer on a Z490 Taichi Motherboard running a 4090 GPU on a Corsair RM850X PSU. The screenshot I posted with summary data from HWiNFO64 should speak to the rest of my system specs. My setup has been going through periods of alternating performance issues, during which nearly any kind of effort leaves it struggling to catch up. For example, mousing over app thumbnails in my Steam library has a significant latency to the zoom-on-hover effect, and games that I've previously had no issues running start running with a near-countable number of frames. Periods of poor performance can last several weeks before returning to normal out of nowhere and running like a dream for another several weeks before dropping precipitously with just as little warning. I started diagnosing things using Intel XTU, which was the first time I noticed the EDP Throttling flag. During periods of poor performance, it was activated almost immediately upon reboot, but when my computer was working properly, it didn't show up at all. This most recent period of poor performance has started off without the XTU EDP Throttling flag, I started digging into other tools beyond XTU, like ThrottleStop and HWiNFO64 (screenshots from which are attached to this post). I didn't include the TS Limit window in the screenshot, but it's got ONLY a near-constant red EDP Other block in the Ring section, whereas HWiNFO64 shows IA Limits from Max Turbo Limit and Turbo Attenuation. More importantly though, it shows Ring Limits due to EDP-type constraints in line with those shown by TS. Looking through the other EDP-related issues on this and other forums, I've checked things like the ICCMax Values, etc., and they're already set as high as possible, so I'm running out of steps to take next. A couple of interesting notes: I tried several different Benchmarking approaches, all of which get throttled to just under 800MHz, with core temps not to barely exceeding 30 deg C I can physically distinguish between periods of poor performance and acceptable performance by the amount of heat being radiated from my computer. If it's working properly, I can feel the hot air being vented from my PC under stress (while keeping temps below 60-70 deg C in monitoring software) I mentioned it before, but these swaps between poor performance and proper performance are infrequent. If my computer is terrible, it's terrible for a long time. If it's good, it's good for a long time, not a lot of switching back and forth. I'm not looking to overclock anything. I just want my computer to work right again. My current guess is there's just a bad sensor somewhere that I need to disable, but I don't want to accidentally fry something. I barely know anything about Computer Hardware/Engineering, so ELI5 responses are welcome! Thanks, --KSFrosty

Hello, everyone Can someone please take a look at my readings from HWiNFO regarding the PCIe Slot Voltage? I am a bit concerned if those drops on PCIe Slot during 100% load on my GPU are dangerous or not. The first screenshot shows GPU readings from HWiNFO and GPU-Z - and second one shows Motherboard side of things. I am confused whether the 11.6 V reading from GPU or 11.736 V from motherboard is more important. Are these drops acceptable? PS. Ignore my native language on HWiNFO My specs are: Motherboard: Gigabyte B85+HD3 Rev 2.0 PSU: Corsair TX650M RAM: 16 GB CPU: Intel i7 4790 GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3060 Windforce OC 12 GB OS: Windows 10 Pro 64bit

I understand that this is probably quite a wild shot in the dark. I am predominantly a Windows user and I am familiar with the HWinfo64 software that is often used in videos on the LTT channel among others. However, I recently came into posesstion of an older, Intel MacBook and was wondering if there were any legitamate alternatives that would run natively in MacOS. In theory I could install Windows via bootcamp on this machine however, that's a bit much simply just to monitor hardware. I am also aware that like Task Manager in Windows, MacOS's Activity Monitor will provide live feeds of processes as well as usage graphs, but on this occasion I'm more looking for something that will provide accurate temperature readings in a similar way to HWinfo64. I look forward to hearing the community's suggestions.

I'm seeing strange readings from HWINFO64 for my CPU. Under routine workloads I see intermittent/brief temp spikes up to the 90s. These last less than a second. However, under Prime95 torture test the CPU barely hits the 70s. I thought maybe it's a software glitch so I tried monitoring the temps using another program but I see the same strange temp spikes. Could it be a sensor malfunction? ROUTINE WORKLOADS: PRIME95 TORTURE TEST:

Hello guys, I got my CPU to clock at 3.9Ghz and I stress tested for 15 minutes (8GB RAM) with ASUS Realbench, and I did the test twice with 2 different voltages. First screnshot has CPU set at 1.206V and the second at 1.225V. (CPU: Ryzen 3 1200) They both should be fine by my guesses, but the question I have is if 1.225V makes any difference, besides drawing more power through Motherboard and CPU resulting in higher tempatures, does the higher voltage make the CPU have an easier time running at full speed? Or is it just pointless extra draw of power and extra wear on CPU? Thanks. 1.206V 1.225V

Hello everyone, This is just something I noticed in the last year of having HWinfo64 opened on my Dell XPS 9700 for monitoring purposes.. I'm running a liquid metal re-paste, custom bios with undervolting, manual SST settings, manual Clock Multiplier values, TVB disabled, forced turbo boost, manual cache MP ratios... stuff like that.. so I want to keep eyes on things - make sure it doesn't spontaneously combust.. Turns out - I'm seemingly having higher system power usage with HWinfo64 active, even though it does not show anywhere. Even with Windows Performance Analyzer, nothing can be traced back to the HWinfo64 in terms of resource usage or CPU time. Despite that, I'm seeing 10W-20W higher power consumption with HWinfo64 running. Laptop usually settles below 10W on idle (5-6W), but with HWinfo opened, it'll often hang at around 25-35W (reported), and system fans will be on despite the CPU idling at 2W and dGPU off (via Optimus, not disabled in DM). I've had HWinfo off by chance in the past few days, and I noticed just how quiet the laptop was.. My theory is that HWinfo forces some sensors to be on and regularly report data and is thus having unnecessary heat load on the system, raising that total power usage. It's the only thing I can think off that isn't linked to CPU usage. This won't matter on desktop PC, where a few watts doesn't make a difference, but it does make a huge difference on laptops. Has anyone else had this experience with HWinfo? Cheers

I downloaded aida64 and HWiNFO and they keep starting when I turn my pc on. Even if I try to close them, they just open up again. Can anyone help me with this? Timeline 1.mp4

Hi all, just made an account to post this odd issue I witnessed today and to see if anyone has seen this behavior before. My system is a 3900X on an ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus (Wi-Fi) motherboard. I built it in September 2019 and it's been running great with nearly daily use. I keep HWiNFO64 open to display the temperatures and different sensor readings as I'm sure many of us do. This morning while under a very light load (YouTube plus a remote desktop session), I noticed the system getting loud. I look over at HWiNFO64 and it's reporting the CPU Package temperature at over 100C with the motherboard controlled fans ramped up to max in response. Everything else looked normal though, CCD1 and CCD2 temps are idling in the 20's C, EVGA CLC 360 AIO pump is still running. Windows is running along with nary a stutter. I noticed that the CPU Package temp was reporting 0C for a few seconds before the jump. Then over the course of a minute, the temperature walked back to its normal value of mid 20's C idle where it's seemed to have behaved normally since. Almost seemed like an 8-bit underflow. Anyone else seen behavior like this? Didn't find anything on Google. The temperatures were obviously misreported and not real. I'd imagine it's on the motherboard since if the CPU sensed that extreme temperature, it'd shut down. Hopefully this is a rare glitch and not a sign of some hardware problem. One thing is that I updated the X570 chipset drivers a few days ago to 2.04.04.111 from AMD's website. I've kept my BIOS at version 1201 though which is from 9/12. I've debated updating the BIOS to 1407 (released on 4/10) but since things have been fast and stable, I haven't felt the need to risk it. Maybe I'll try it anyway over this weekend. Thanks for any advice!

Hey guys, This is my first post, so I'm sorry if I did something incorrectly. Anyway, about a 2 months ago I set up a new RAID server. Before I go too far, here are the specs of the setup: Motherboard - ASROCK Thaichi z270 CPU: Intel Pentium G4560 RAM: 16GB (corsair I think) OS Drive: WD Black 1TB RAID Drives: 6 8TB Seagate IronWolf NAS Drives in RAID 5 RAID Controller: Integrated into MOBO I have started using this server for storing light steam games that I don't mind taking a performance hit on. Recently downloads/allocation started taking forever/timing out, although other performance appears unaffected. Today I decided to check the array using HWINFO64 as it was one of the few tools that would display results for SMART data. As of right now 3 of the 6 drives are reporting a caution symbol (I have attached screenshots of the smart data below). From what I understand these are reporting 2 drives with 8 sectors reallocated and 1 drive with 16 sectors reallocated. With this I have a few questions: Are these numbers something I should be concerned about? I do want to be able to depend on the data to a reasonable degree. I do not currently have a backup of this server as I can't afford to build another server yet. With that said, the truly critical data does exist somewhere else, but it would be VERY inconvenient to loose data. Can these numbers be trusted? I have read some things saying that any smart data from drives in a raid array cannot be trusted, but these were pretty old posts. If I really cannot trust these drives, will Seagate approve an RMA for this even though they still don't report a real failure? I cannot run SeaTools due to the RAID so as far as I know that's out. I really do not want to RMA the drives since from what I understand, I have to pay to ship them to Singapore and from the US east coast, that's not cheap. Not to mention that I will have to do it one by one if I hope to keep my data. I have never had to RMA anything, so this is all new to me. Is there anything else that I am not thinking of? Many thanks for any help provided (or attempted)!

Hello, HWInfo64 shows on my SSD: Drive Remaining Life: 1.0% Drive Warning: Yes Warning Remaining Life: 1 I bought the drive 2012-01-02 and is used as my main drive for Windows Should i get concerned it will die in soon?

So I just did a 5ghz overclock on my i7 8086k, using the z390 msi mega ace, at 1.2 volt with mode 3 LLC. I tried to track what's the voltage during load and idle but the programs that I used, adia 64, intel xtu, hwinfo64, msi dragon center, all reported different voltage. Adia and msi reported 1.21 volt. Whereas intel and hwinfo both reported 1.32 volt. Can someone please explain to me why two softwares are reading 1.32 and the other two are reading 1.21?

Hello. A week ago i had my laptop cleaned of dust and the CPU thermal paste replaced and in the last few days i noticed in XTU that my cpu thermal throttles at around 80 clesius. This only occurs sometimes and only in XTU, while in HWiNFO64 everything seems normal, except "IA:PROCHOT" turning to "Yes". To give you an example when this happens, today i was playing Skyrim and just as soon as my save loaded i was experiencing horrible freezes every two seconds and audio lag. From what I've read on other forums, those freezes might occur because of the VRAM. I am aware that this problem might occur in Skyrim because of the mods that i have installed, but this happens in other games too that aren't necessary very demanding, like Overwatch with everything on low . So my question is, what might cause these performance problems and thermal throttling at only 80 celsius? I'll list below my system specs, also i use a CPU undervolt of 85mV.

I've been using hwmonitor for a month, and my cpu temps are kinda high 66c on idle, and 98c-100 while gaming. I tried everything like changing thermal paste, and removing sidepannel and putting a electric fan in to it. Then I downloaded speedfan, hwinfo64, and argus monitor. The cpu temps are kinda low compared to hwmonitor. Is hwmonitor really that bad?

I have my voltage offset in my Gigabyte motherboard set to +0.120 V just testing a 3.85 GHz overclock, but I saw this in HWinfo during a full blend torture test in Prime95: So what's the deal? I thought Ryzen 5 1600 base voltages were 1.25 V, 1.20 minimum. 1.25 + 0.12 is not 1.238. I'm sure HWinfo isn't wrong, so why isn't the voltage offset doing what I tell it to? Am I just misunderstanding the core voltage? Maybe I'm misunderstanding principles of electricity. Maybe it has something to do with the blend test, but I'd doubt it. I've asked about voltages before, I'm mostly just having trouble getting a good reading during benchmarks and stress tests about the actual voltage.

I was wondering if anyone else uses this awesome tool for monitoring your hardware in game? I think it's pretty awesome, but i can't remember how i came across it. I think i googled "cpu temp in game" or something and found HWiNFO64. At the moment i have HWiNFO64 monitoring my FPS, CPU (Temps, Clocks, Volts, Usage and Fan speed) My GPU has the same options as the CPU, My system RAM and VRAM. Here is a screenshot to show what i mean. I have to also run MSI Afterburner Just to get the in game display and then HWiNFO64 to get the sensor readings. All of the rows have custom Labels i have assigned them such as the CPU (FX-4100) GPU (HD 7770) and the others aswell. One of the other things i was wondering was, is there any other programs that have this level of detail in an in-game display? Here is the configuration for my CPU, There is heaps more options but i don't use them.