HWINFO 7.50 CPU Frequency High

[Draconian]

Updated from 7.46, now my CPU rarely goes below 3Ghz, even at idle. Reverted back to 7.46 and all back to normal. No other changes made.
I7-8750H, MSI Leopard GP73 laptop

 

[Martin]

Try to disable monitoring of the EC sensor.

 

[Draconian]

Unless it got reenabled, it's already disabled. I'll reinstall 7.50 and check.

 

[Draconian]

Reinstalled 7.50. Monitored for a couple minutes. Average CPU core clock 3.8Ghz, where with 7.46 it is less than half that. EC is still disabled.

After 7 minutes of essentially idling, CPU core clock average is still at over 3.6GHz with 7.50.

 

[Draconian]

Screenshot attached after 20 minutes at little more than idle.

 

[Martin]

Then it might be due to some other sensor. Do you see a new sensor introduced with v7.50 ?

 

[Draconian]

Yes I do. 7.46 doesn't report SMART data for my external USB SSD. 7.46 names it "Sandisk Extreme 55AE" while 7.50 calls it "Western Digital SN560E" under drives. Screenshots of collapsed sensors attached.

 

[Martin]

And if you disable monitoring of that SMART sensor?

 

[Draconian]

Yep. Disabled SMART reporting and 7.50 is behaving normally now.