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I need a short guide with the best values for ThrottleStop for me please!

It has a 128 GB SSD and 1 TB 5400 RPM HDD

Here's a link of one YouTube video,that say that the throttling is not an overheating issue,but the HDD that turns off something...

Please see this:

Maybe this would help you to give me an exact advice!
 
It has a 128 GB SSD and 1 TB 5400 RPM HDD

Here's a link of one YouTube video,that say that the throttling is not an overheating issue,but the HDD that turns off something...

Please see this:

Maybe this would help you to give me an exact advice!

Probably power savings in the hdd, find out what exact hdd you have and see if you can find some low level tools, i had an issue where a SSHD would park its head and unpark when needed, which would cause a lag spike in my games, i replaced it with a raptor, no issues.

Have you tried defragging the hdd?
 
Yes I hav tried,but never finished it!
What do you think about the YouTuber?

Is he right about the HDD,and could that solution really help me?

And about the dust filter,what do you think,if the techs remove it,for which period of time then they should open it to clean it?

Please tell me which temps are normal for playing GTA V for around 10 minutes?

I have just played for ten minutes,and the CPU temp reached 71 degrees Celsius,and then dropped to 67!
 
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Please tell me which temps are normal for playing GTA V for around 10 minutes?

I have just played for ten minutes,and the CPU temp reached 71 degrees Celsius,and then dropped to 67!

Seems fine for gaming on a laptop.
 
Which temps are dangerous ?

The CPU will throttle down to protect itself.

71 degrees while gaming is ok for gaming on a laptop.
 
I doubt it's throttling they don't throttle at 84c. Nothing in that throttles until 100c.

What is likely happening is you are hitting the tdp limit and it is turning turbo off. Does the chip drop below 2.6ghz in games? If it doesn't it isn't throttling.

People really should stop assuming turbo is a guarantee and not a bonus. They won't run that speed 24/7 it has to meet certain requirements to run those speeds.
 
How can I test it if it is really throttling,for what period of time playing?
I will test it now and report the results!
 
How can I test it if it is really throttling,for what period of time playing?
I will test it now and report the results!

You would need a program with overlay capability to monitor clock speeds etc

Yes I hav tried,but never finished it!

What do you think about the YouTuber?


Is he right about the HDD,and could that solution really help me?


And about the dust filter,what do you think,if the techs remove it,for which period of time then they should open it to clean it?


Please tell me which temps are normal for playing GTA V for around 10 minutes?


I have just played for ten minutes,and the CPU temp reached 71 degrees Celsius,and then dropped to 67!

You never finished the HDD disk defrag!?

Never interrupt that.
By the way it is against forum rules to multipost in succession. Please use the multiquote button before a moderator comes in here to discipline you.
 
Which program for an example?
And how to run it while playing?

I believe open hardware monitor has a widget that can be enabled and does the trick, you would need to set in that tool what you need monitored so it shows in the widget itself.
 
For how much time should I test it?

Since the tool doesn't do a video recording but does track mimimum average and max values in the main window, set the overlay widget to what you need, play a full session of gta, look at it for any major clock dips.

Worst case yank that 5400 RPM drive out and research 7200 RPM or Velociraptor drives
 
Well, I don't see anything wrong with his laptop?

There are two problems from what I can see here and the laptop itself has no issues.

1. User thinks it has problems.
2. His expectation is a little too high for 960m.
 
So you have no idea if it throttled and have built a thread of anger off of something you have no idea how it works?
 
The CPU overheats for a short period of time ~ 5 minutes,and reaches temps up to 84 degrees Celsius for 15 minutes of playing GTA V !

What did you do in between this? How did the CPU temps drop? Did you remove that "dustfilter"?

I have just played for ten minutes,and the CPU temp reached 71 degrees Celsius,and then dropped to 67!
 
So you have no idea if it throttled and have built a thread of anger off of something you have no idea how it works?

Some people use the Exclaimation mark in a wrong context, bud read his first post and at least to me doesn't sound angry lol.
 
Speaking of which, at first I thought your username was eidairaman!.

My name I never had corrected since day one, I fat fingered the name in 2007 lol, the 1 is intentional, the second "a" was by accident.
 
My apologies to all of you !

I played GTA V for 30 minutes and monitored the clocks speed and hwinfo showed no throttling at all!I also set a throttling monitoring via hwinfo and it also didn't show throttling!

The CPU temps reached up to 74 degrees Celsius and then lowered to almost constant 71 degrees Celsius.

And I enabled the VSync also!
And I unparked the CPU cores.

I really don't know why did the CPU reached 84 degrees Celsius that time,but I think it is not important.

I also installed HDPARM.

I would like to say thank to all of you,for the time you devoted to me,and for all of your advices!
I hope that I wouldn't have any thermal issues while playing games,except for the hot keyboard :) .

And I thought that the CPU was thermal throttling,because of that YouTuber who says that his Lenovo Y-700 had throttling,but his laptop version is AMD, and mine is Intel,that's not the same indeed!
 
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Tjunction is 100° for this processor
 
Which temperature would be optimal for this CPU while playing GTA V for an hour for example?

Personally I try to keep it way below 70s but thats just me and thats why I use intel XTU and my i7 4700HQ runs at 2.6GHz max all the time, at this speed it runs GTA V just fine at a still 40fps locked frame rate.

If you run it just over 70s it should still be fine though.

I'm not exactly sure when it would start to throttle but I think you'll notice that when it does...
 
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