Unusual energy consumption patterns in HWMonitor and HWinfo (4790k)
Unusual energy consumption patterns in HWMonitor and HWinfo (4790k)
I increased my CPU speed to 4.5 GHz at 1.235 V about eight months ago and ran Prime and Cinebench. Temperatures stayed steady between 70 and 80 degrees on the H97 motherboard with a cooler master 212 Evo. Recently, I experienced performance issues in certain games. When I powered off the PC, I received a message indicating the overclock failed—possibly faulty or reset. For example, my game froze in the main menu and the PC displayed a blue screen. After restarting, I reverted to the same settings and performance problems nearly disappeared (FPS dropped significantly with full CPU usage and GPU around 50%). I mainly play Rainbow Six Siege, which is CPU-heavy. After checking HWMonitor, I noticed low power output and missing cores on my CPU. If you think I made a mistake or if the CPU is defective, please let me know. Screenshots are attached. Thanks for your help and apologies for the poor English.
Thanks for your quick response. I've also attached a screenshot of HWinfo64, and it shows an unusual power consumption pattern.
Using standard tools on older CPUs or mobos often fails to give accurate readings. On my 5960X, HwInfo only shows a few watts, and the true value remains hidden unless I rely on the motherboard’s built-in utility (which isn’t very reliable).
What RAM types are you employing? Additionally, what methods are you using to boost performance on a 4790K with a H97 platform? Intel limits overclocking to Z and X series boards, such as Z97. You're leveraging hyperthreading, which means the chip has two logical threads despite fewer physical cores.
2x8GB DDR3 RAM at 1600MHz installed on an MSI H97 PC Mate. From the latest Intel releases, you should only be able to overclock it on the Z socket, not the B or H sockets.