CPU at 45'C despite being at "100%" load. Am I missing performance?
Posted by lychee_lover_69@reddit | buildapc | View on Reddit | 9 comments
Hi there,
My CPU is an i5-7500 and I've been trying to eek out as much performance out of it as possible. I noticed that whilst running a CPU benchmarking tool, the temperature stays really stable at 45'C despite CPU usage being 100%.
I would imagine that under truly high load, the CPU would be at a higher temperature than that. I recently enabled a "turbo" setting in the BIOS which succeeded in raising the clock speed from 3.4GHz to 3.8GHz but this has had no effect on the temperature.
Is this an indication that I'm missing out on performance from my CPU?
Thanks for the help!
Yukaih@reddit
What is your local temp?
lychee_lover_69@reddit (OP)
When under a low load (watching YT) it was 25°C.
Yukaih@reddit
Based on that info, your place is really cold. The room temperature affect your temps as well as any form of cooling.
For instance my temps in idle are around 50° because a live in a place that is fucking hot. Max temp for me is 80°
lychee_lover_69@reddit (OP)
Correct, I would estimate my room temperature at the moment hovers around 15°C.
That said I figured there could be a possibility that there was some kind of temperature throttling going on because of how flat the temperature is. It reaches 45°C and stays exactly there.
_Rusty_Axe@reddit
Sounds more like you have a really good cooler.
lychee_lover_69@reddit (OP)
I have it set up with a Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cooler-Master-Hyper-RR-212E-16PK-R1-Heatpipe/dp/B0068OI7T8
I didn't realise that these temperatures were even possible when under "maximum" load.
VoraciousGorak@reddit
Yup, this chip was released well before the power-hungry monsters we have in our PCs today. 3.8GHz is as high as the i5-7500 goes, so you're getting all the performance you can out of it now.
lychee_lover_69@reddit (OP)
Understandable.
Time to upgrade to a Ryzen 5 5600!
nigerianprince199@reddit
If it’s not the K version so you could overclock it there’s not much you can do, if it’s at 100% then that’s the most performance you’re gonna get