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I happen to have the same CPU as you and I recommend you to use some more monitoring software to detect top fan speed and see throttling. enter image description here

HWmonitor is great because it shows many things and also minimum and maximum value it measured.

To make a graph of your CPU frequency during a game or something just use that great windows tool called perfmon ;) Press win+r and type perfmon (or maybe perfmon.msc). Then click + choose ProcessorPerformance / All instances, Click add and then just let it make a graph. You may delete the other unnecessary monitored values except frequency using the red x button. You will also probably want to slow it down, so use the properties button on top and change it in General / sample every x seconds. You can also make it record this to a file by right clicking left on Performance monitor and choosing new collector set, but you can google more about it if you wish that... enter image description here

The last thing for you to try is to disable Intel speedstep (C1E and EIST options in BIOS) to force it to run on full frequency and see if the games run better. There is a bit of a risk of heat damage, but honestly I don't really remember this ever happening from what I have read:) I also unintentionaly tested my previous Intel CPU Core2Quad Kentsfield and found out it can survive temperatures off the scale of the monitoring SW (probably over 100°C) when the water cooling pump failsfailed during benchmark ;D

80°C is a bit too much though. But does it have this temp under high load or when idle in Windows?

I happen to have the same CPU as you and I recommend you to use some more monitoring software to detect top fan speed and see throttling. enter image description here

HWmonitor is great because it shows many things and also minimum and maximum value it measured.

To make a graph of your CPU frequency during a game or something just use that great windows tool called perfmon ;) Press win+r and type perfmon (or maybe perfmon.msc). Then click + choose ProcessorPerformance / All instances, Click add and then just let it make a graph. You may delete the other unnecessary monitored values except frequency using the red x button. You will also probably want to slow it down, so use the properties button on top and change it in General / sample every x seconds. You can also make it record this to a file by right clicking left on Performance monitor and choosing new collector set, but you can google more about it if you wish that... enter image description here

The last thing for you to try is to disable Intel speedstep (C1E and EIST options in BIOS) to force it to run on full frequency and see if the games run better. There is a bit of a risk of heat damage, but honestly I don't really remember this ever happening from what I have read:) I also unintentionaly tested my previous Intel CPU Core2Quad Kentsfield and found out it can survive temperatures off the scale of the monitoring SW (probably over 100°C) when the water cooling pump fails during benchmark ;D

80°C is a bit too much though. But does it have this temp under high load or when idle in Windows?

I happen to have the same CPU as you and I recommend you to use some more monitoring software to detect top fan speed and see throttling. enter image description here

HWmonitor is great because it shows many things and also minimum and maximum value it measured.

To make a graph of your CPU frequency during a game or something just use that great windows tool called perfmon ;) Press win+r and type perfmon (or maybe perfmon.msc). Then click + choose ProcessorPerformance / All instances, Click add and then just let it make a graph. You may delete the other unnecessary monitored values except frequency using the red x button. You will also probably want to slow it down, so use the properties button on top and change it in General / sample every x seconds. You can also make it record this to a file by right clicking left on Performance monitor and choosing new collector set, but you can google more about it if you wish that... enter image description here

The last thing for you to try is to disable Intel speedstep (C1E and EIST options in BIOS) to force it to run on full frequency and see if the games run better. There is a bit of a risk of heat damage, but honestly I don't really remember this ever happening from what I have read:) I also unintentionaly tested my previous Intel CPU Core2Quad Kentsfield and found out it can survive temperatures off the scale of the monitoring SW (probably over 100°C) when the water cooling pump failed during benchmark ;D

80°C is a bit too much though. But does it have this temp under high load or when idle in Windows?

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Vitas
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I happen to have the same CPU as you and I recommend you to use some more monitoring software to detect top fan speed and see throttling. enter image description here

HWmonitor is great because it shows many things and also minimum and maximum value it measured.

To make a graph of your CPU frequency during a game or something just use that great windows tool called perfmon ;) Press win+r and type perfmon (or maybe perfmon.msc). Then click + choose ProcessorPerformance / All instances, Click add and then just let it make a graph. You may delete the other unnecessary monitored values except frequency using the red x button. You will also probably want to slow it down, so use the properties button on top and change it in General / sample every x seconds. You can also make it record this to a file by right clicking left on Performance monitor and choosing new collector set, but you can google more about it if you wish that... enter image description here

The last thing for you to try is to disable Intel speedstep (C1E and EIST options in BIOS) to force it to run on full frequency and see if the games run better. There is a bit of a risk of heat damage, but honestly I don't really remember this ever happening from what I have read:) I also unintentionaly tested my previous Intel CPU Core2Quad Kentsfield and found out it can survive temperatures off the scale of the monitoring SW (probably over 100°C) when the water cooling pump fails during benchmark ;D

80°C is a bit too much though. But does it have this temp under high load or when idle in Windows?