Acer Nitro 5 Stuttering slow

fireexplorer23
fireexplorer23 Member Posts: 52 Enthusiast WiFi Icon
edited November 2023 in 2019 Archives
So I have a Acer Nitro 5 ANA515-53-52FA with 16 GB of ram 1TB HHD. I recently Undervolted the CPU due to power limit and thermal throttling, I used Intel Extreme Tuning and undervolted to several different marks but I found -0.150 to be the best. The highest I undervolted was -0.170 because I would crash at -0.180. I did overclock the CPU once and put it at 0.50 but that lasted before I changed it back because of fears of damaging my CPU. Right now everything is default the CPU is not undervolted nor overvolted or overclocked, but lately I've noticed when switching tabs or clicking a different tab or clicking a new page will freeze my music or video I have in the background for about 2 seconds and will begin playing again. I also have noticed on roblox which is a CPU intensive game that I can only go about 20 minutes with out my frames dropping. My question is did I damage my CPU and to what extent. I try downloading intels Processor test but says their are errors making it unable to download. I want to know if my CPU has permant damage and is it fixable. 

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  • ven98
    ven98 ACE Posts: 4,073 Pathfinder
    You can't damage the CPU by overclocking(would you mind sharing how you did it? I assume you lifted the all core turbo to the single core turbo frequency of 4GHz, not that there is anything else that can be done to increase the frequency) and if it was damaged, there wouldn't be a way to fix it.

    Download HWINFO and check the CPU and GPU temperatures during gameplay and report them here.
    Always post the following characterisitcs of the device:
    -Model number
    -Part number(not required, but helpful)
    -CPU
    -GPU
    -Operating system

    Helios 300 and Nitro 5 users DO NOT update the BIOS to version 1.22 if you don't want the keyboard's backlight to turn off after 30 seconds even when the device is plugged in.


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  • fireexplorer23
    fireexplorer23 Member Posts: 52 Enthusiast WiFi Icon
    ven98 said:
    You can't damage the CPU by overclocking(would you mind sharing how you did it? I assume you lifted the all core turbo to the single core turbo frequency of 4GHz, not that there is anything else that can be done to increase the frequency) and if it was damaged, there wouldn't be a way to fix it.

    Download HWINFO and check the CPU and GPU temperatures during gameplay and report them here.
    I overclocked it by using intel extreme utility and set the core voltage to -0.150 and then at one point set it to 0.50. 

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