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post #1 of 7
11/11/12 at 5:51pm
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I have an HP Pavilion G7 with the A4-3300m. I've been running it with its current overclock settings for probably about 8 months with no issues. Now for the last week I've been noticing that its running hotter and rarely idles even with no programs running. It spends probably 90% of the time in the P0 state. Manually setting its state in K10stat has no effect, i can set it to P6 and it will still remain in P0, with an occasion drop into P6, then back to P0.

These are my current OC settings, everything was tested with prime95 and stable. No problems with them in 8 months.

B0 3100 - 1.3500v
P0 2500 - 1.1125v
P1 2300 - 1.0500v
P2 2000 - 0.9750v
P3 1600 - 0.9250v
P4 1300 - 0.8250v
P5 1000 - 0.7375v
P6 800 - 0.7125v

There are no processes running in the background to cause it. Anybody have any ideas what could be causing this?
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post #2 of 7
4/8/13 at 12:57pm
what temps do you run at with your G7 mine gets like 160. im running a A8...how did you manage to OC?
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post #3 of 7
4/11/13 at 9:02pm
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what temps do you run at with your G7 mine gets like 160. im running a A8...how did you manage to OC?
I use fusion tweaker I can over clock my CPU to 3.0ghz on a cooler pad without any problems on full load

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post #4 of 7
4/11/13 at 9:34pm
Do you have it set on High Performance mode? try setting it to balanced
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4/11/13 at 9:39pm
check to see if cool n quite is off, also take the battery out when at home and run of the wall that is after your battery is charged, my brother does this everyday and his temps are alot lower and that is without a cooling pad (A6 I think).
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4/23/13 at 8:25pm
should i leave cool adn quite on or off for maximum cooling
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post #7 of 7
4/24/13 at 12:25am
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Doesn't that chip cook itself?!

About that throtting stuff... Check how's the system activity. Remember it's a dual core, and CPU-Z for example won't see what the other cores are doing, it will read off the first core. So, the first core might be at P0 state because Windows does background caching (quite normal), while the other one is idling at P6.

Also, check you're not running in High Performance mode and that C6 states are enabled in the BIOS.
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