walshy wrote: ↑Sat Nov 02, 2024 8:45 pm
Can I ask, what software do you use to show the core temperatures?
Could overheating be a reason why my PC starts having mini 2-5 second freezes after its been in use for a while?
potentially, yes..
i didn't do much searching, but found speccy. it's detailed enough for me and coming from the ccleaner guys inspires confidence
https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy
fwiw - i no longer am involved in BA, but do use my pc for backtesting/optimisation on cTrader. previously, this could end up in no go areas if my strategies involved tick level data and/or tick based analysis. as of today (literally), all of those issues have gone. i don't mind saying, it took me a while to grok the best way fwd on this and after several months of frustration, the fan/cooler replacement kept coming up as the bottleneck... never truer!
and yes, as Kai said earlier, cpu throttling occurs beyond a certain temp in order to protect the cpu from burnout - this can be solved with a minor $$ investment (£63 on amazon for mine) but with huge rewards.
[edit] as an aside. this evening (overnight) i will now be able to optimise 4 strategies in sync that would have been (individually) well nigh impossible prior to this upgrade; priceless!
[edit 2] - an often overlooked area is doing regular maintenance on the internals of your pc. a decent compressed air aerosol will be your friend here. literally cleaning gunk off of fans (without changing the stock fan) may be all that is required and will only need to be done every 9-12 months. in fairness, i did try this on my stock fan but the fan was so basic that it made little difference (tho my use case is akin to video editing and i was never able really to confidently complete the optimisation tasks to my satisfaction).
just wish i'd taken a few screenshots on speccy prior to my upgrade, my cooler upgrade really is THAT dramatic in the difference it makes.
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