This may be a silly question, but I don't have much money and I want to protect what I have over as long a time as possible.
Exact question is, is it acceptable and safe to always turn my power management to best energy savings and set maximum processor state to 99% through the windows power management/plans when not gaming, and set to best performance and 100% processor state during gaming?
I've read that it's the actual monitoring program constantly "waking up" the processor, and the processor interprets it as a bursty load and turbos to 4.4ghz and 1.48 volts and 60-70ish on temperature (around 35 idle). I realize this is mostly if not completely normal for a 3700x, but even basic browsing and video watching still seems to get a little toasty and uses a lot of power, as well as other very non-intensive tasks. Just wondering if it can cause damage over time if I'm constantly switching the power and processor states within windows power and sleep options to save a few degrees and dollars when all that power isn't needed for just browsing, and then switching to full power when gaming
Exact question is, is it acceptable and safe to always turn my power management to best energy savings and set maximum processor state to 99% through the windows power management/plans when not gaming, and set to best performance and 100% processor state during gaming?
I've read that it's the actual monitoring program constantly "waking up" the processor, and the processor interprets it as a bursty load and turbos to 4.4ghz and 1.48 volts and 60-70ish on temperature (around 35 idle). I realize this is mostly if not completely normal for a 3700x, but even basic browsing and video watching still seems to get a little toasty and uses a lot of power, as well as other very non-intensive tasks. Just wondering if it can cause damage over time if I'm constantly switching the power and processor states within windows power and sleep options to save a few degrees and dollars when all that power isn't needed for just browsing, and then switching to full power when gaming