Should my CPU always be running at max clock speed?

[lerodemmy]

Is this normal?  Sometimes it goes down slightly, but for the most part it's staying at 4.48 at all times.  As of just last week is it was much lower when idle.

[Jakebrims]

Yes,

the cpu will use what is needed 

 

[Kilrah]

It's not idle at all in this graph, so it's normal for it to go full speed.

[lerodemmy]

2 minutes ago, Jakebrims said:

Yes,

the cpu will use what is needed 

 

So it's fine as long as it stays cool?  It's usually around 36 C.

[lerodemmy]

Just now, Kilrah said:

It's not idle at all in this graph, so it's normal for it to go full speed.

But I'm not doing anything, so what is it doing?

[Kilrah]

Look on the Processes tab, sort by CPU usage and you'll see.

Probably either Windows Defender doing a malware/virus scan, background updates happening,...

[Jakebrims]

5 minutes ago, lerodemmy said:

So it's fine as long as it stays cool?  It's usually around 36 C.

Thats fine, ive seen CPUS much higher temps

 

[lerodemmy]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Look on the Processes tab, sort by CPU usage and you'll see.

Probably either Windows Defender doing a malware/virus scan, background updates happening,...

It's iCUE.  This is what it looks like without iCUE running.  Is it ok to leave it running and let the CPU operate at that speed at all times?

[Kilrah]

Sure, but it's very wrong that a pointless software like it is using that much.

Look for updates to it, maybe they fixed a bug that was causing that, look for troubleshooting info for it, or get rid of it.

[lerodemmy]

14 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Sure, but it's very wrong that a pointless software like it is using that much.

Look for updates to it, maybe they fixed a bug that was causing that, look for troubleshooting info for it, or get rid of it.

I did a little research and it's definitely the 4x8GB Dominator Platinum RGB RAM I added today.  There's an option for the RAM in iCUE "Enable full software control."  If I disable that, the CPU immediately goes to about 4% usage and 1 or 2 GHz.  Doing this means the lighting on the RAM modules is disabled.  Now I'm really disappointed.

[Tender_Coconut]

in windows 10, go to Settings > Power and Sleep and in the right you have "Additional power settings", get there. Choose "Balanced". This should solve your problem.. To find out more, click on the "Change plan settings" of the one you are using and click "Change advanced power options" You get to the screen attached. The culprit for high CPU clock is within this.. the "Processor power management". In here, use can see "Minimum processor state". This is set to 100% in High Performance mode and 5% in Balanced mode. Because of this, the CPU never falls to lower clock. You can change it manually in any Power plan though... hope this solved your issue..

[Mark Kaine]

On 1/11/2020 at 9:24 PM, lerodemmy said:

Is this normal?  Sometimes it goes down slightly, but for the most part it's staying at 4.48 at all times.  As of just last week is it was much lower when idle.

The problem with this is, it's not idling @ 22%...

 

PS: holy necro batman 

 

 

[lerodemmy]

5 hours ago, Tender_Coconut said:

in windows 10, go to Settings > Power and Sleep and in the right you have "Additional power settings", get there. Choose "Balanced". This should solve your problem.. To find out more, click on the "Change plan settings" of the one you are using and click "Change advanced power options" You get to the screen attached. The culprit for high CPU clock is within this.. the "Processor power management". In here, use can see "Minimum processor state". This is set to 100% in High Performance mode and 5% in Balanced mode. Because of this, the CPU never falls to lower clock. You can change it manually in any Power plan though... hope this solved your issue..

I eventually figured this out back when I posted this thread.  But this is the correct solution.  Thank you!