I’ll be honest, I’m quite new to the whole understanding computer parts thing, but I guess I have a basic grasp on what things mean.
Recently, I purchased an ASUS A16, and I’ve been monitoring the CPU and GPU and something seems off.
The cpu runs at 3700mhz when idle, with no background processes, at 63 degrees and 2% usage. I know it’s not dangerous, but it’s also not ideal, but I have no idea what’s causing it.
Windows power plan is set to balanced, and I have my cpu set to “performance” in armoury crate, but it doesn’t drop by much when I switch to windows- only to about 3200mhz, and at similar temps.
Should I be worried? What might be causing this?
I know this isn’t quite the best subreddit to ask, but I figured you guys understand this better than I do.
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I’m on ryzen 3000 and the way it works is, as long as there is cooling overhead, the cpu will continue to boost to max speed. There’s no duration limit to how long the cpu can boost for, unlike intel as far as I understand. Keep in mind this is what Ik abt my cpu and i can only imagine it will “act the same” for the most part.
Laptops run hot normally unfortunately, they just don’t have the heat dissipation capacity due to their size. It’s actually interesting that it’s running at such low speeds at idle tbh, it has a max boost of 5.2GHz and typically CPUs will boost close to their max easily when there’s really low utilization, at least with desktop. That might be a laptop efficiency deal.
Base clock for your CPU is 3GHz, so it won’t run slower than that unless you’re having temp issues. For my desktop, my 5800X will run at 4.7-4.85GHz at idle because there’s no worries about heat since it can still idle at 36c.
My god. Just use your laptop, dude.