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    CPU Fan spinnig abnormally when watching a movie

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by crosslimit, May 22, 2013.

  1. crosslimit

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    Recently I noticed that whilst watching a HD Movie/TVSHow with with either MPC-HC or VLC my cpu fans started spinning quite loudly. I cant recall ever having this problem before. I have just cleaned out the vents and reaplied thermal paste, so thats not it. Windows Media Player and Flash(Youtube) work fine, does anyone know whats causing this? my temps are the same as the idle ones 43CPU/35 GPU... could it be the XM CPU?
     
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    whats ur gpu and cpu load when watching movies? check with windows task manager (performance tab for cpu) and gpu-z.

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    Good Idea, havnt tried that yet.

    Ok so CPU utilization is 5% on both players. GPU is another story though. Whilst VLC only uses 16% of the HD 4000, MPC-HC uses 67%!!

    I know right, thats my solution right there. Well it isnt, turns out the fans kick in at the same time on both players even though VLC is using much less GPU...
     
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    well that is weird indeed.... have u tried updating ur EC (and possibly also bios) to the latest version? maybe its a bug in one of the firmwares.
     
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    I've got the latest bios of mysn.de 1.02.14 something for the EC and 1.02.12 something for the bios... is there a newer one someplace else?
     
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    What is the utilization when using Windows Media Player for movie playback? Even though you said it's fine compared to other said programs.
     
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    right I tested a HD file with WMP and CPU was the same at 5 , GPU was only 7%, that maybe explains it... Is there any way to play mkv files with wmp? :D

    Oh btw, the high usage with MPC-HC was because I was using the madVR renderer, I changed to the default one and usage dropped to 12% so better than VLC, but the fans still kick in.... just... weird

    Well I'm doing a complete system wipe over the weekend anyway so I guess I will let you know if the problem still persists after that
     
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    Aah very interesting. WMP might play mkv files if you have a codec pack. I use use K-Lite Mega Codec Pack but with Media Player Classic that comes with it, so I haven't tried that file extension type in WMP. Worth a shot though after your full install! Good luck!
     
    Prostar Computer, May 24, 2013
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