Questions tagged [cpu]
The part of a computer responsible for performing computations, often referred to as a processor.
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Motherboard LED is lit (constant green) but turns off immediately when I press the power button (No fans, no POST)
I'm not sure where to begin; I've been trying to get the thing working again for a couple of weeks (waiting on shipping is a pain). There are no trustworthy local shops (speaking from experience) so ...
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Notebook CPU upgrade: Pentium to i7
I have an old notebook and I'm considering to upgrade the CPU. My current setup is:
Product Name: Notebook Gateway NE56R
Motherboard: Q5WVH LA-7912P, rev 1.0
Chipset: Mobile Intel® HM77 Express | ...
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Mumu player emulator not utilizing my GPU
im currently using mumu 12 for some reason its only using my CPU on 100% despite the "forced use of discrete graphics card" option being on
ive tried to disable HyperV and various other ...
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Why is Task Manager showing more than 100% CPU Usage? What does it mean?
I have a weird issue. This is the second time that I'm encountering this over the last 2-3 months.
My CPU Usage is constantly running between 120% and 200%... How? How is this possible? What does it ...
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Detect the origin for my computer's problems, probably hardware-related
In the past couple of weeks my computer shows more and more problems. I think it might be a hardware problem, since most of my setup is 13 years old and it worked before with the same OS. However, I ...
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How to changing 1GHz to 2.5 GHz processor....? In hp pavilion 14" laptop [closed]
Ssd is also in but wprking slow speed , i5 ,10 th generation laptop ,just processor is 1GHz is problem.
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how to troubleshoot MS Word freezing repeatedly with many images on page
I'm working on a single page MS Word document with 64 small images on it. As I'm working with the document I keep getting the spinning wheel and the screen fades every few seconds and the status bar ...
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Fresh clean Windows 10 installation is always throttling CPU to 10% llimit
Fresh Windows 10 installation on my DELL M6800 with Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4930MX CPU @ 3.00GHz is always throtlling it to 10% making it almost unusable.
I have tried different options like Group ...
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my pc has become slow, it just gotten slower on its own
These are my computer's specs:
Intel core i5 3570
GT 710 DDR3
8GB ram
It may not be powerful by modern standards, but it can play some games , like Minecraft, kinda good. My pc can run it over ...
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Intel i7-920 Stock Temp
I am running an Intel i7-920 chip on stock cooling and i'm getting about 55C on idle and 65-70C during light browsing (youtube, etc.) I understand that the maximum temperature the chip can take is ...
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Black Screen and System Hang - Possibly CPU overheating
I have this old computer - P4 2.0ghz, 1.2GB RAM and onboard graphics(no external card), 80GBHDD. It has xubuntu installed on it and it regularly hangs when it takes more system resources for say like ...
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What causes warning "The speed of processor x in group y is being limited by system firmware" in the Windows System event log?
Windows continually logs the following warning in the System event log:
The speed of processor 0 in group 0 is being limited by system
firmware. The processor has been in this reduced performance ...
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CPU doesn't lower the frequency when idle
I switched to AMD processors a few years back and thought I just don't know something about their power management. So, for a couple of years I've had an 5600X processor running in a PRIME B550-PLUS ...
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How can I monitor processes running at a CPU thread of a Hyperthreading CPU?
My system is a network equipment, it uses Intel Hyper Thread processor and it runs Centos Linux. I can see /proc/cpuinfo has 2 processors, I assume they are actually 2 CPU threads, not 2 CPU cores.
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What effect does a graphics card have on live streaming output?
I stream live events, with the cameras inputted through USB adapters, and the stream encoded with WireCast.
How much of an effect does the graphics card have on the output quality when live streaming?...
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How to adjust user cpu quantums and the ability to preempt the other processes in Linux
I have a Linux system with NGINX web server, PostgreSQL database server, and many users running processes of same web application, each web application has its NGINX configuration file and a ...
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Toshiba Satellite L755 - CPU and GPU overheating
I'm at a little bit of a loss and wanted to try asking a question here :)
I own a Satellite L755, the model which includes Blu ray player, Nvidia 525m, 6GB RAM and a few more bells and whistles.
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Computer won't fully shut down
I built a gaming PC last summer and recently upgraded my processor. Since upgrading, when I shut off my PC the OS seems to properly shut down and my displays lose signal. However, my PC appears to ...
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How can I track and log CPU and memory usage on a Mac?
I know I can use Activity Monitor (as well as a slew of 3rd party applications) to monitor the usage of RAM and CPU on my Mac. However, I want to capture a log over an amount of time so that I can ...
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Microsoft Edge - High CPU Usage
Microsoft Edge has abnormally high CPU Usage on my computer, just upgraded to Windows 10. When I open cnn.com in it, it consumes about 50% of my CPU even after the page loads, for a SINGLE tab. When I ...
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High "System" CPU usage; unaccounted for Memory usage
I fresh reinstalled Windows 11 a couple months back, and for a while now it seems like there's some sort of memory leak (?) that causes high CPU usage by the "System" process, high memory ...
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What are the net consequences of core parking?
What are the net results/consequences to core parking? As in -- aside from potential power savings, why would one want to have core parking enabled (or disabled)?
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Why does dmidecode return a higher number of banks than the number of memory channels supported by the CPU?
According to the wiki, a bank refers to the secondary structure of a DRAM chip, which is different from the bank mentioned in the dmidecode command. I am wondering what the relationship is between ...
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How to adjust PHP FastCGI performance to the system resources (number of CPU cores mostly)?
We have a fairly weak server - 2 cores of Xeon Gold 6132.
Until recently the server didn't have much traffic but now we added a web page that generates more traffic than usual.
This is the number of ...
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Always show windows CPU monitor graphic in taskbar
I would like to always show the windows CPU usage graphic in the taskbar near the system clock as it does when the task manager is open. Is there a way to make it always show with no more intervention ...
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Is a Ryzen 5000 series APU usable with NVIDIA GPUs?
I may be receiving a Ryzen 5600G APU; but I also have two discrete NVIDIA GTX GPUs (1000 series).
Now, I have no intention of using the discrete GPUs for graphics, only for compute (i.e. with CUDA); I ...
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Core temperature above threshold cpu clock throttled while upgrading gcc compiler
I have a Dell laptop and i am using CentOS 6.9 in it for personal use which was working very fine till yesterday, when i tried to upgrade default gcc compiler (4.4.7) to 4.9.x version.. I've ...
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Computer beeps 5 times and restarts constantly before BIOS
A few days ago, the computer I built about 4 years ago suddenly stopped booting up. When I turn it on, it restarts constantly without ever reaching BIOS. The fans turn on for about 10 seconds and then ...
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"1.0 GHz with turbo boost up to 3.6 GHz" -- acceptable processor clock speed?
I have been using a laptop with 2.3 GHz processor clock speed so far, which has been sufficient for my needs (which peak at some intensive programming, e.g. ML).
I'm looking for a new one right now, ...
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Hyper-V VM does not use all the EPYC 7543P CPU power
I have a DELL server with an AMD EPYC 7543P 32-Core Processor.
I run Hyper-V as VM Hypervisor on a Windows 2022 server OS.
All is working right on the Host but the VM are not able to use all the power ...
