Cpu power limit

[zeptil]

I recently got an old i7 2600 and I'm using it with the stock cooler (it gets hot af) so I put the energy limit at 70% in the energy settings at windows, so max clock is around 2.2ghz and temp is around 80c at full load, but in certain games (valorant, sw battlefront 2 from epic) it doesn't work the cpu goes to 3.4ghz and 90c, what can I do??

 

It doesn't happen in other games

[whispous]

Have you blasted the dust from the cooler?

Also, you should clean off and re-apply new thermal paste if this all came old n' pre-assembled.

[zeptil]

Just now, whispous said:

Have you blasted the dust from the cooler?

Also, you should clean off and re-apply new thermal paste if this all came old n' pre-assembled.

I had the cooler lying around in a board inside an anti static bag so it wasn't dirty, only the fan blades but I cleaned that 

and it has new thermal paste but it's some random chinese stuff idk if it's bad,  it worked fine in an athlon II but that had a better heatsink and less power 

[murixbob]

You can also look at using either Intel XTU or Throttlestop to undervolt the cpu. That should help drop temps some.

[zeptil]

1 minute ago, murixbob said:

You can also look at using either Intel XTU or Throttlestop to undervolt the cpu. That should help drop temps some.

both of them aren't supported in sandy bridge, and the bios doesn't seem to have any option either 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

What mobo? maybe send a few pics of the bios

I assume the stock garbage 1155 cooler?

 

Defaul voltage is 1.25v which is ridicolous for such slow 3.4ghz so id reccomend modifying the vid via jumping pads on the back of the cpu with some conductive ink or aluminium tape

 

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/2nd-gen-core-desktop-vol-1-datasheet.pdf

Page 73 and 74 are the ones that matter the most, stock vid is 1.25v so i reccomend locking all cores to max allcore turbo (3.5ghz) with throttlestop and pad modding vid to 1.125v or 1.05v, setting a vid pad to 0 means jumping said pad to a vss (ground) pad and setting a vid pad to 1 = jump to vcc pad

[zeptil]

17 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

What mobo? maybe send a few pics of the bios

I assume the stock garbage 1155 cooler?

 

Defaul voltage is 1.25v which is ridicolous for such slow 3.4ghz so id reccomend modifying the vid via jumping pads on the back of the cpu with some conductive ink or aluminium tape

 

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/2nd-gen-core-desktop-vol-1-datasheet.pdf

Page 73 and 74 are the ones that matter the most, stock vid is 1.25v so i reccomend locking all cores to max allcore turbo (3.5ghz) with throttlestop and pad modding vid to 1.125v or 1.05v, setting a vid pad to 0 means jumping said pad to a vss (ground) pad and setting a vid pad to 1 = jump to vcc pad

it's a foxconn h61mxe, here's the bios the only option relating the cpu are these, I just disabled turbo boost

[Somerandomtechyboi]

3 hours ago, zeptil said:

it's a foxconn h61mxe, here's the bios the only option relating the cpu are these, I just disabled turbo boost

Buy a ch341a and flash the bios to a foxconn z68a-s see if that might help

[unclewebb]

5 hours ago, zeptil said:

both of them aren't supported in sandy bridge

ThrottleStop supports Sandy Bridge. Post some screenshots if you need help.

[zeptil]

Just now, unclewebb said:

ThrottleStop supports Sandy Bridge. Post some screenshots if you need help.

It does but no the fivr option so you can't undervolt with it, just change the turbo duration and power limits, I was searching for an old xtu version that migth work but the only one that did didn't have a voltage option either 

[unclewebb]

@zeptil

FIVR was not introduced until the 4th Gen. The 2nd Gen do not support software CPU voltage control.