I have a 6820hk in my 17 r3. I was playing around with some of the overclock settings, and was wondering what normal cpu fluctuations are? Unless completely idle the cpu seems to bounce around a little and not warm up then cool down smoothly. I guess you would say small spikes in temp? Kinda like a 4 to 8 degree jump here and there while doing non demanding task. Perhaps a few degrees wider when gaming. Is this normal temp flux. or do you think it's perhaps bad paste or paste job. I know these laptops are reported to have bad paste/paste jobs anyways, just didn't know if that would contribute to bouncy cpu temps. (side note: I do not want to, or plan on diving into re-pasting this laptop, This 17 R3 is not at all like my old M17x R3.)
Ex. while writing this post the cpu temp is going from 29 to 34, to 29, to 40, to 32, to 28, to 34, to 50 across a 30 second span. I do have it overclocked a little and fans are running but lowest speed and silent. So maybe since it's not actively asking for cooling and the fans are not spinning up it's getting more flux? under low fan speed situations? In game it would flux from 53 to 65 and every now and then see a quick spike up to 72 or something like that.
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