How to detect/observe CPU power (thermal) throttling?
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 2:33 am
Are AMD (and Intel, of course) CPUs supposed to scale down core their clock frequency/multipliers when any overheating occurs?
In case, is there any setting, method, technique, or software able to show those throttling occurrences in any case?
The question may look rather obvious, but seemingly I'm not able to actually detect any change in cores clock frequency (I've used AMD OverDrive 4.2.1, CPU-Z 1.57, RMClock 2.3.5 and Throttle Watch 2.02), expectedly due to thermal throttle (currently on three AMD 10h CPUs, Phenom II X4 980, Athlon II X4 605e, Athlon II X3 420e), up to 117° C reported core temps (I used two more tools, Core Temp and SpeedFan).
In case, is there any setting, method, technique, or software able to show those throttling occurrences in any case?
The question may look rather obvious, but seemingly I'm not able to actually detect any change in cores clock frequency (I've used AMD OverDrive 4.2.1, CPU-Z 1.57, RMClock 2.3.5 and Throttle Watch 2.02), expectedly due to thermal throttle (currently on three AMD 10h CPUs, Phenom II X4 980, Athlon II X4 605e, Athlon II X3 420e), up to 117° C reported core temps (I used two more tools, Core Temp and SpeedFan).