E6400 overheating throttling

Calm down, there.
Not everyone has this the throttling issue. If you noticed and your system is all fast and great and then magically turns super slow (and your not on battery or set Windows to power saver mode), where the only solution to fix the problem is to restart your computer (and waiting a 10-15min to wait until the system cools off at idle doesn't do anything), and it occurs several time. AND that you had a motherboard and heatsink replacement and still no help in any way, then you are pat of the group that has the throttling problem.

The fan kick in is normal, ESPECIALLY that not only you are gaming, BUT you are gaming on an a GPU that was designed for such rough environment (yes, even if it's old game).

You can monitor speed and temperature with Everest. It's shareware, but the trial version should be enough for your purpose.

 

Thanks. But should I monitor temps and the speed doing what activities? For the most part the CPU idles around 1500 and only jumps to 2530 when its running something intensive like Orthos. Should I run Orthos for a while and see if it throttles?

 

1500MHz? What Windows are you using? 32 or 64-bit?
What is your CPU?

What is being reported is that when the Northbridge reaches ~50C the system throttles.

 

It is perfectly normal that the fan runs when you game.

 

I am still having the throttling issues when playing games (mostly TF2) on this machine. The new A15 BIOS didn't help. Is there anything that can be done or am I stuck with this gimped laptop?

 

I can't even play Day of Defeat (the old one) or even Cultris (a tetris clone) without the system throttling.

 

The work-around is to run RMClock and use a power profile with 100% throttling enabled.

John

 

How do I change the throttling settings in RMClock? What do you mean by "100% throttling enabled"? Won't that exacerbate the problem?

 

P8700. 32-bit XP Professional.

 

You need to set up a profile. I use Performance on Demand. Then select that profile on the main Profiles page.

I agree that 100% throtting implies maximum throtting, but in reality it means fixing the throtting to 100% of the CPU speed, ie full speed.

I disabled the throtting setting last Saturday after installing BIOS A15 and, so far, have not encountered any performance problems. Perhaps i need some warmer weather.

John