am i doing something wrong?

[Nintendo Maniac 64]

(02-06-2018, 08:11 AM)arkantoster Wrote: i will get one of those things with coolers for my notebook, maybe it will help me... thanks for the support

Don't do that without confirming if it really is the CPU! The last thing you want to do is spend money on something that might not even fix the problem.

I recommend just using a program like CoreTemp which will not only show the temperature of your CPU cores but will also show the clockrate (which will let you see if the CPU is in fact reducing its speed or not).


Sometimes it's actually not thermal throttling and it's power throttling - that is, the laptop itself intentionally reduces power because reasons, in which case you may be able to solve the problem via a program like ThrottleStop (for older laptops like yours, I recommend clicking "Show more versions" and downloading v6.00 rather than using the newest version of ThrottleStop).

And if it is thermal throttling, then you may be able to use the newest version of ThrottleStop to undervolt your CPU which can help reduce temperature without also reducing performance or increasing fan noise (just note that the newest version of ThrottleStop will "expire" in January 2019).