![]() ![]() In Windows 10/11 you can manage the performance of the CPU and reduce its maximum clock speed via Windows Power Settings, this may help you avoid overheating and over stressing the CPU. ![]() Microfibre cloth when used dry is a great way to kill a CPU with static discharge, the cloth and brush should only be used lightly dampened with Isopropyl. In either case, if the CPU socket pins and/or CPU base are contaminated with thermal paste oil these can be only be cleaned with extreme care, using a sable hair artists brush dipped in Isopropyl Alcohol for the tricky bits and a microfibre cloth dipped in Isopropyl Alcohol for the easy bits, in both cases an anti-static wrist band and workplace mat is required to protect the motherboard and CPU. Some cheap brands of thermal paste are prone to oil bleed, where the thermal paste separates out into the thickener and oil components and the thin oil easily flows down the sides of the CPU and contaminates the socket pins. If too much thermal paste was applied previously then the paste may spread down the side of the CPU into the CPU socket, contaminating the pins below, this is a common cause of intermittent crashes of the computer under heavy load. Cut up an old, course or medium tine, plastic, mens hair-comb to a width that matches the CPU heat transfer plate and break off every second tine, after applying the grease drag the comb across the surface of the CPU in one swipe, the result will look like like a ploughed field, this helps avoid air pockets forming between the CPU and the heat sink when you clamp them together. ![]() If large globs of paste are extruded from the sides of the heat sink when you clamp the heat sink down onto the CPU then you used too much paste, just a little paste should be visible around all four edges of the CPU when the heat sink is locked down. Wipe off the paste you applied last time and then degrease both CPU and heat sink with a little Isopropyl, or other degreaser that is safe to use around plastics, and apply a thin even layer of fresh paste over the full width of the CPU, take care that no grit or other contaminants are mixed into the paste. It is a common mistake to over-apply thermal paste to the CPU heatsink, thermal paste that is applied too thickly acts as a thermal insulator, not a thermal conductor, and applied too thickly it prevents the heatsink from mating to the CPU over the full width of the CPU thermal interface plate.Īlso, a single small piece of grit trapped in the paste can degrade the entire thermal performance as it prevents even contact. There are a couple of options you could pursue at zero cost. i doubt that's the problem though if memtest checked out OK (and if you did the bootable USB thing, because if you run memtest86 or the windows memory checker with windows running there are multiple gigabytes of memory that can not be tested as they are in use by windows.) in truth you've probably already found the solution - lowering the number of threads - but unfortunately the StarNet code does not try to configure tensorflow to respect the PI thread setting, and so it runs on all available processors.Īs for the total amount of memory used by a process, there might be some way to constrain windows but i don't have any domain knowledge there. I don't think this is a software problem or else this forum would have a zillion users saying their windows computers are rebooting under windows. do you have any way of monitoring the CPU core temperatures? if so if they are north of 70C while things are going you might (still) have some thermal issue. prime95 or intel power gadget will do that. Well the other half of the test is just running the CPU flat out, all cores executing AVX2 instructions. ![]()
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