Hi all,
I have an older laptop that may be having issues. It is a Dell E6410 with an i5-540m, 8GB Ram and a 120GB SSD.
It had been running Windows 8/8.1 for a while. Recently I got an SSD and decided to install Windows 7 on it.
Since then, the laptop base runs really hot.
When I run CPUz, it shows that the processor is running at 3.05 GHz (on a clean boot). This is the turbo range for this processor as it is a 2.53 GHz processor. Windows resource monitor does not show anything out of the ordinary. CPU usage is 2-6% but it also shows the processor running at around 95% maximum frequency. I don't know that it was doing this with Windows 8.1 because I never checked. The heat of the laptop caused me to look further into it.
My other laptops are Sandy/Ivy Bridge. They tend to run at 700-800MHz until they need to ramp up their speed.
I am running the latest version of the chipset processors. (Checked with the Intel Driver Update Utility)
For all I know this is normal behavior.
Any thoughts?
