unlikely if your CPU overheats you will ecounter stability issues including random crashes, system shutdown which will usualy require a couple of mintues before it powers backup and in the worst cases CPU burn out. saying that im not completly sure how laptop GPUs would work as they tend to share at least system ram this could also extend to CPU time as well but even if your laptop CPU overheated you would more likely encounter stability issues first
these days all graphical processing is done by the GPU even viewing 2d images if your getting graphical issues the GPU should be the first thing you look at depending what the issues are it could be either the GPU/graphics memory overheating, graphics memory or GPU being faulty
The GPU may be able to do some things on its own, but ultimately it still follows instructions given to it by CPU, and if it's bad everything else is affected. The CPU is still the heart of the computer and runs the whole show.
Also, if one component is overheating, the chances of other stuff being close to or at the point of overheating is very high.
And oh, yeah - some CPUs have an integrated memory controller, so the info may pass through the CPU on its way to the GPU.
Just for an example - One things that an overheating CPU can cause is really really bad frame rates.
Most modern CPUs actually come with internal temperature sensors which when they detect things getting too hot, start making the CPU effectively "stretch" its clock cycles, slowing down the CPU, making it use less power and so allowing it to cool down a bit.
STO does demand alot from most computers, and so the overtemp protection mechanisms can really cripple it.
Since I noticed, and have taken steps to prevent this, my (ground) frame rate has jumped from 5-8fps to rather closer to the 30fps mark, where it should be :>
RightMark CPU Clock Utility, though oldish, was very useful diagnosing things for me. YMMV.
While it is strictly true that an overheating CPU can misbehave in all sorts of ways, all vaguely modern (last five years or more) AMD and Intel CPUs can't overheat that much, because they have a thermal cutout built in that will switch them off entirely before it gets that hot.
Overheating of the GPU or memory is more common. An unstable power supply is far more common than any of them, and tends to trigger under the same conditions (when the chip is at its hottest, it's also drawing the most power - that's why it's hot). There's also good old component failure.
CPU overheating, as already mentioned, is very very bad and can lead to all sorts of random problems. Speaking from experience, I had a PC with a CPU that was systematically overheated over a long period of time, and eventually it completed burned out (there was literally an acrid burning smell coming from the case) to the point where my PC would no longer boot up. Before that I was already suffering problems with crashes, slow performance in games and other applications, and other weird things like failure to defragment the harddrive.
After bringing the PC in for repairs it was confirmed that the CPU was completely fried and had to be replaced. We suspected the PSU in combination with a poorly vented PC case as the source of the problems. Luckily no other hardware was affected and after replacing the CPU and PSU, and drilling a hole in the side of the case to improve airflow the PC ran just fine.
Needless to say that's the last time I ever bought a pre-built PC system from stores that make a profit by skimping on things like the PSU and case cooling...
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these days all graphical processing is done by the GPU even viewing 2d images if your getting graphical issues the GPU should be the first thing you look at depending what the issues are it could be either the GPU/graphics memory overheating, graphics memory or GPU being faulty
Also, if one component is overheating, the chances of other stuff being close to or at the point of overheating is very high.
And oh, yeah - some CPUs have an integrated memory controller, so the info may pass through the CPU on its way to the GPU.
CPU overheating is bad. Very bad.
Most modern CPUs actually come with internal temperature sensors which when they detect things getting too hot, start making the CPU effectively "stretch" its clock cycles, slowing down the CPU, making it use less power and so allowing it to cool down a bit.
STO does demand alot from most computers, and so the overtemp protection mechanisms can really cripple it.
Since I noticed, and have taken steps to prevent this, my (ground) frame rate has jumped from 5-8fps to rather closer to the 30fps mark, where it should be :>
RightMark CPU Clock Utility, though oldish, was very useful diagnosing things for me. YMMV.
Overheating of the GPU or memory is more common. An unstable power supply is far more common than any of them, and tends to trigger under the same conditions (when the chip is at its hottest, it's also drawing the most power - that's why it's hot). There's also good old component failure.
After bringing the PC in for repairs it was confirmed that the CPU was completely fried and had to be replaced. We suspected the PSU in combination with a poorly vented PC case as the source of the problems. Luckily no other hardware was affected and after replacing the CPU and PSU, and drilling a hole in the side of the case to improve airflow the PC ran just fine.
Needless to say that's the last time I ever bought a pre-built PC system from stores that make a profit by skimping on things like the PSU and case cooling...