Everytime the PC's fans ramp up and i check task manager only to see the load is already gone
When I go 5 hours without installing a windows update for the drivers and the laptop suddenly leaves sleep mode in my backpack for no reason, draining the fully-charged battery in minutes and nearly catching fire
My laptop's cpu normally idles at 40C but whenever I do something moderately complex it immediately shoots up to 60X and the cooling fan goes brrrr. I've tried replacing the thermal paste and even the heat pipe system but neither helped. :(
I don't know but there's not much I can do about cooling in a laptop. The laptop is 8 years old and I don't use it enough for this issue to be that big of a deal.
If its a modern intel laptop, its likely the PL2 clocks. The PL2 level is basically a time interval where the cpus run at a higher boost clock than sustained turbo, and ia defined to run at that for a short time period (e.g about 40 seconds) before clocking to the standard boost clocks (PL1). Its why laptops heat up fast and ramp very quickly. It makes processors seem faster than they are. (Similar to like running speed in a 40 yard/meter dash vs a marathon running speed)
The laptop has a 4th gen cpu, I think an i3 so it's probably not classified as modern lol.
I see. I also have an old laptop (4th gen i7). I personally use throttlestop to limit its turbo clock speeds just for sake of noise.
I decided to try undervolting my laptop's cpu and found the intel-undervolt tool. It seems that reducing cpu voltage by 25mV has solved the issue.
You sure it isn't crypto mining malware that will hide when task manager is open? Like the one described here.
70% of the it's either Antimalware Service Executable or a dozen microsoft edge tabs open in the background for some reason
For some reason i have a firefox instance that starts up on windows start and hogs a lot of CPU. Ive narrowed it down to ublock origin but i have never read that it does that so im just assuming its a bug and delete the process until the next reboot lol.
meanwhile my fans still screaming after the task manager says everything is below 20% (it was a goddamned windows update again)