An Odd Occurrence.

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A few posts ago, I noted that my HP Spectre x360 would have its fans constantly on, it would get incredibly hot, and it would never go into lower clock speeds. Now, the i7-8565u processor in my HP Spectre x360 finally decided to be able to go into lower c-states and throttle a lot less. I'm not even sure what caused it, but I know something was definitely wrong.

When first checking with throttlestop and task viewer, CPU 0 would always run at 100%. The others would follow behind when plugged in. I am close to believing that this was a manufacturer issue, and my laptop was unable to go into deeper c-states, included with its CPU speeds running at high constantly.

I question if HP managed to do something to mess with the CPU, or was this just a small issue that was not supposed to happen by any means?

Either way, as a shout out to anyone else who might have had this issue, or still has this issue, check if your cpu is running core 0 at 100% all the time, and if your c-states don't enable or go to deeper levels.

In addition, battery life is now terrific with this device because it can go to those deeper c-states. 

Genuinely confused and intrigued about all the process I had to go through, only to find that the machine may have fixed its own self, or if I may have done something that I do not even remember. 

[genexis_x]

BIOS, firmware, software, power management....there are many possibilities where things might go wrong

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9 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

BIOS, firmware, software, power management....there are many possibilities where things might go wrong

True to that. BIOS was always up to date, but I really have to assume it was manufacturer interference with cooling and other such.