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ok and where do i change power mode in windows ? i cant find anything

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Ok, so i dont know what's going on.

My i7-8700 acts strangely. About 3 weeks ago my pc crashed for the first time in its first 6 months of existence. I checked for a powersupply problem but it

wasn't that. So i bought a new cpu cooler (shadow rock Slim) because the crash were more and more frequent. I installed it correctly and the problem wasn't solve.I discovered that the crashes were cause by my cpu overheating and reaching 100C. I checked on google and saw that maybe my voltage was to high. I checked and it was true. My cpu is about 1.2 to 1.4V when checking on HWMonitor.So in the bios,  i put it to 1.3V max but because my turbo mode is active, it's always over 1.3v and my cpu speed is not changing even in idle and stay at 4.3 Ghz. MCE is desactivated and my motherrboard is a Asus PRIME B360M-A. I have also a xmp profie on for speeding up my ram to 2666mhz. When rendering in premiere pro, its staying about 65 to 75 degrees and max 80. But i dont know why my speed is constantly at 4.3Ghz and my voltage so high. Please help solve that.

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Try checking what power plan you have selected in windows. If it's on "High Performance" this can cause the processor to be set to it's maximum all core turbo clock, thus requiring higher voltages and causing higher temperatures. For Intel processors this setting should be set to "Balanced" to ensure the processor down-clocks during idle workloads. 

 

I would also check the computer's bios to see if any power-saving related settings could be disabled, and enable them. Also, "VID" as reported in Hwmonitor and other monitoring software isn't actually the voltage that is being pushed to the cores, it's simply the voltage the cpu is requesting to the best of my knowledge. 

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CPU = R9 3900X / Motherboard = Asus Crosshair 8 Hero / GPU = EVGA SC Ultra RTX 2060 / RAM = G.Skill 3600 16-19-19-39 ( 32GB / 4x8 ) / Cooling = Dark Rock Pro 4 / Storage = Western Digital Caviar Blue ( X4 ) Crucial 500GB NVME, 500GB 970 EVO/ PSU = Seasonic X-850 Modular / Case = Corsair Carbide 200R

Wireless = Asus PCE-AC56 / Keyboard & Mouse = Corsair K70 MX Blue, Logitech G203 / Headphones = Hyperx Cloud Alpha /

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and i checked in the bios and i only found power mode that was set on auto and i had the choice between performance mode or max energy saving mode. I let it in auto. 

I have set powerplan to auto in windows and sometimes it drops lower but most of the time stay at 4.3Ghz and my voltage is the same : 1.3 to 1.42

 

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