CPU throttles when opening multiple window of games

[jiggs0422]

Hi linustechtips community,

 

Please help, I am not a pc build expert but I dont know if I bought the correct gaming pc parts. Because everytime I open more than 3 windows of MU online game, my cpu throttles and reaching to 70% to 100%. When reaches to 100% it will automatically goes back to 40-60% and the fps will become back to normal. But after 1 minute it will reach again to 70% to 100% and throttling again and vice versa. This only happens when I open 3 or more windows of MU online games. I have to make 3 windows because of supporting my main character build. 1 window account is for ee buffer, 2nd window and 3rd window account are attackers to gain faster leveling for my main character. 

 

My Rig:

Motherboard: ASRock 970 Extreme 4

CPU: AMD FX8350

Video Card: MSI GTX970 4G Twin Frozr

Ram: HyperX Fury 8gb x4

Power Supply: Corsair TX650 80 plus bronze

Cooler: Corsair H80i dual fan. push pull config

Case: Corsair Carbide 200R

and 5 corsair case fans.

 

Note: already set to X Boost (asrock configuration)

 

Please help me what will I do to avoid this throttling and loosing the normal frame rate, even I open more than 3 windows of MU online game. I am not experiencing this to my asus N55SF laptop.

Thank you in advance.

 

[tp95112]

Opening three instances of a game means its needs more cpu power to drive the games and throttling means it slows down not increase cpu usage

[jiggs0422]

10 minutes ago, tp95112 said:

Opening three instances of a game means its needs more cpu power to drive the games and throttling means it slows down not increase cpu usage

Does it mean that I have to change my power supply to a higher wattage to supply the needs for the cpu? 

[tp95112]

3 minutes ago, jiggs0422 said:

Does it mean that I have to change my power supply to a higher wattage to supply the needs for the cpu? 

No it means that opening multi windows of any game will lag a PC.

[jiggs0422]

2 minutes ago, tp95112 said:

No it means that opening multi windows of any game will lag a PC.

But how come my N55sf laptop is not experiencing that, even I open 5 windows of games?

[jiggs0422]

And many of my MU gamers friends are not experiencing that also. 2 of my friends open 6 windows of MU online game and they are not experiencing that as well. That is why I come to a point of wondering.

[LogicalDrm]

Have you watched how CPU usage changes when you open 1 window to 2 windows to 3 windows? Your CPU isn't that powerful so you might get more windows open with better one. RAM is also a thing when running multiple instances. Watch RAM usage also.

[jiggs0422]

41 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Have you watched how CPU usage changes when you open 1 window to 2 windows to 3 windows? Your CPU isn't that powerful so you might get more windows open with better one. RAM is also a thing when running multiple instances. Watch RAM usage also.

Yes I watch the CPU usage changes when I open 1 window up to 3 windows. Ahh, if my 8 core cpu is not powerful, what cpu is  better than 8 core? Is my 32gb of RAM is not enough also?

 

If that so, how does my N55SF asus laptop can handle 5 windows withouth throtling considering that my N55SF laptop has only 4core and 8gb of RAM?

[LogicalDrm]

1 hour ago, jiggs0422 said:

Yes I watch the CPU usage changes when I open 1 window up to 3 windows. Ahh, if my 8 core cpu is not powerful, what cpu is  better than 8 core? Is my 32gb of RAM is not enough also?

 

If that so, how does my N55SF asus laptop can handle 5 windows withouth throtling considering that my N55SF laptop has only 4core and 8gb of RAM?

Whoops, my mistake on RAM side. Pagefile might still be partial thing. But in the end it falls to game optimization. If game really does us all 8 cores, you should be just fine. But seems like game is only using first core. And throttling with it. Which CPU is that laptop using?

[jiggs0422]

16 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

Whoops, my mistake on RAM side. Pagefile might still be partial thing. But in the end it falls to game optimization. If game really does us all 8 cores, you should be just fine. But seems like game is only using first core. And throttling with it. Which CPU is that laptop using?

I check all the 8 core CPU's are running and not parked. The CPU laptop is Intel Core i7-2630QM quad-core processor (2.0GHz, up to 2.9GHz Turbo Boost, 6MB cache, 45W TDP)

 

That is why I am wondering how does my laptop can handle 5 windows without throtling. While my AMD FX8350 8 core CPU is throtling on 3 windows only. Knowing that my PC is much more higher specs than my laptop. This is really strange

[LogicalDrm]

4 minutes ago, jiggs0422 said:

I check all the 8 core CPU's are running and not parked. The CPU laptop is Intel Core i7-2630QM quad-core processor (2.0GHz, up to 2.9GHz Turbo Boost, 6MB cache, 45W TDP)

 

That is why I am wondering how does my laptop can handle 5 windows without throtling. While my AMD FX8350 8 core CPU is throtling on 3 windows only. Knowing that my PC is much more higher specs than my laptop. This is really strange

So is load been distributed to all cores? And laptop has better CPU. Besides having 4 cores, 4 threads, it also has turbo.

[jiggs0422]

4 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

So is load been distributed to all cores? And laptop has better CPU. Besides having 4 cores, 4 threads, it also has turbo.

Yes the load is been distributed to all 8 cores. But the amd FX8350 has a turbo frequency of 4.2Ghz compare to my laptop that has only 2.9Ghz turbo. How is that possible that my laptop has 4core only while my pc has 8core and all running.

To the fact that I didnt do any special configuration to my laptop as well to my 8 core pc.

 

 

[Captive]

2 hours ago, jiggs0422 said:

How is that possible that my laptop has 4core only while my pc has 8core and all running

Multithreading, my friend, multithreading.

[mr195]

It doesn't come down to just speed of the processor. The Intel in your laptop has much better performance core to core than your 8350. The 8350 is relatively weak for gaming, especially with a load like that. Switch to an Intel i7 processor if you want more windows of your game open. 

[jiggs0422]

10 hours ago, mr195 said:

It doesn't come down to just speed of the processor. The Intel in your laptop has much better performance core to core than your 8350. The 8350 is relatively weak for gaming, especially with a load like that. Switch to an Intel i7 processor if you want more windows of your game open. 

Ah ok thank you for the advice. I thought 8core is better for gaming. I will take your advice to switch to Intel i7 processor.

[jiggs0422]

13 hours ago, Captive said:

Multithreading, my friend, multithreading.

Thank you Captive. I will switch to intel i7

[jiggs0422]

Thank you for the members of this community who helped answering my question. As I notice while comparing my laptop with a quad cores to my desktop pc with an 8 cores (both running in turbo boost) I saw differences that in the 8 core is much smoother and faster frame rate rather than the 4 cores when running my MU online game in 1 windows up to 3 windows. But as what i said, opening 3 or more windows of MU online game, the 8 cores will give up and start to throttle after 1 minute or more. For that I dont have issue on the 8 core cpu temperature, still remain to 40-48C temp.

[jiggs0422]

But I found a way to avoid the throttling and will still run to a faster and smoother game play even when opening more than 3 windows of MU online game. With the advantage of lesser cpu usage and temperature  

 

 

Remove the brightness effects of the character items

 

maybe I will not change to intel i7 because in video editing comparing to my laptop and pc. The AMD (pc) is much faster in rendering nor video editing.

[Captive]

2 hours ago, jiggs0422 said:

But I found a way to avoid the throttling and will still run to a faster and smoother game play even when opening more than 3 windows of MU online game. With the advantage of lesser cpu usage and temperature  

 

 

Remove the brightness effects of the character items

 

maybe I will not change to intel i7 because in video editing comparing to my laptop and pc. The AMD (pc) is much faster in rendering nor video editing.

You really shouldn't compare a laptop APU/CPU to a desktop CPU.

 

You're comparing two very different things.

[Pommy192]

How will switching to an i7 help? It's clearly his fault for opening 3 instances of a game instead of 1. Or some other hardware fault

[jiggs0422]

19 hours ago, Captive said:

You really shouldn't compare a laptop APU/CPU to a desktop CPU.

 

You're comparing two very different things.

Yes you are correct that I should not compare this two very different things. But the reason I compare is because if you will start reading from the top, I have a reason why.

[jiggs0422]

14 hours ago, Pommy192 said:

How will switching to an i7 help? It's clearly his fault for opening 3 instances of a game instead of 1. Or some other hardware fault

I think just change my amd cpu to intel cpu  

 

How you say clearly its my fault for opening 3 instances of a game instead of 1? have you play MU online game? If you are a player of MU, and you are saying that its my fault for opening 3 instances of game instead of 1 then its not only me have a fault, you will be refering to all MU player opening more than 5 instances of game  

 

If the hardware fault is the reason then what other hardware shall I change in order to switch to an i7 correctly?