Question Cpu spiking up and down constantly during full load

[jayleonis]

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Any idea why when I go to full load in the cpu it won’t maintain constant full utilization. Task manager looks like an up and down graph that keeps repeating under load. The spikes seem fairly consistently spread out using the grids as a measure in the task manager cpu tab

Memory close to maxed out if that matters

https://imgur.com/a/h6A5ddR

View: https://imgur.com/a/h6A5ddR

 

[hotaru.hino]

What are you doing to put it in full load? It could be whatever you're doing has breaks at regular intervals, which is what the graph is showing.

 

[jayleonis]

Would this be bad for the cpu at all? Constant back and forth of wattage power to the cpu?

 

[CountMike]

Would this be bad for the cpu at all? Constant back and forth of wattage power to the cpu?

Unless drops are caused by high temperatures and it's throttling because of it, it's not dangerous. It can also be caused by inadequate power delivery or voltage drops. For that you should also check temperature while at full load, You didn't say which program you are running but try with some benchmark program that is sure to produce constant load, Cinebench r23 for instance

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