HWMonitor Powers

[leejc73]

I'm playing with clocks today following a certain example of running hwmonitor Cpuid and prime.

I'm stable at 4.6 @ 1.37 volts atm although this is first run so might be able to bring it down some more. Just wondering what the package powers and the Ia cores power applied too.

I'm sitting looking at Cpuid saying 95W max tdp and hitting 104 and 98 in hwmonitor.

Normal or something to be concerned about?

Cheers

Lee

 

[yassarikhan786]

I'm playing with clocks today following a certain example of running hwmonitor Cpuid and prime.

I'm stable at 4.6 @ 1.37 volts atm although this is first run so might be able to bring it down some more. Just wondering what the package powers and the Ia cores power applied too.

I'm sitting looking at Cpuid saying 95W max tdp and hitting 104 and 98 in hwmonitor.

Normal or something to be concerned about?

Cheers

Lee

I don't know the answer to your first question, but for your second question it is fine having a tdp greater than the one specified because you have overclocked your cpu.

 

[SmoulderingCircuits]

To my knowledge no monitoring software detects wattage correctly (as a live feed)

 

[Scoob]

Hi,

HW Monitor simply gets it wrong in my experience.

For example, my 2500k is overclocked to 4.6ghz and yet under heavy IBT load HWM is reporting a max of 90.33w - this is for a 95w CPU! The various power calculators estimate my CPU would be nearer 150w at this level of overclock, even though my vCore is bumped up less that 0.2v over all.

It would be nice if HWM got this right, but it doesn't unfortunately. Best way to test is with one of those wall sockets that measure such things, then doing some stock IBT/Prime95 runs followed by some overclocked runs and comparing the power draw at the wall.

Scoob.