TL;DR Item 3D images bad, turn on browser HW Acceleration.
Fix this or give me option to turn off animations as I still need to take xans or #fkrhino will kick me and I don't want to use HW Acceleration (I'm having it off, as it has frequently caused stutters for me during gaming if it's on and there's animation/video playing on second screen.)
This has been going on for a while for me, fans suddenly ramping up and sometimes bluescreening.
At first I thought it was bad OC on my part, but then I pinpointed it to my browser ramping CPU randomly and crashing in middle of the game, but only when I was doing stuff alt+tabbed.
Tested 3 different browsers with no success.
Finally pinpointed it to torn and specifically item animations.
They are doing some
VERY heavy load on CPU if HW acceleration is off. It puts immense load on all 24 logical cores. ~20% of the time I click item preview it straight up crashes my pc (Overclocked, but CB23 stable & OCCT stable). I actually Bluescreened 2 times before I got the image with huge CPU spike.
Switching tab, shutting browser or loading new page/refresh fixes it until I open 3D preview again.
Crime banners also cause some load, but not nearly as much as those 3D previews.
Win11 latest
12900k @5.2GHz/3.9GHz all core
DDR5 6400MHz CL32
3080ti
At every point during this troubleshoot I Bluescreened with CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT error, might have taken few hours or few days, even weeks, but my CPU was stable during stress tests (not AVX though) and gaming.
Troubleshoot I've done in order:
dropped clocks 5.3>5.2
raised voltages > raised them more > and more..
disabled CPU & GPU Powersavings as I thought it could be bad voltages on low load.
took off GPU undervolts
tested stock GPU
tested stock CPU
dropped RAM 6600 CL30>6400 CL32(XMP)
different browsers Chrome>Firefox>Opera GX
At this point I pinpointed it to Torn
Tested without extensions
Here I pinpointed it to 3D item previewSolution: Turned Hardware acceleration ON for browser.
Now to the data.
All of these are from fresh boot, with only Opera GX with 1 tab of torn & Task Manager/HWiNFO64 on. Also no Torn extensions.
HW Acc OFF, no 3D preview
[image: i.imgur.com]HW Acc ON, with 3D preview
[image: i.imgur.com]HW Acc ON, with 3D preview
[image: i.imgur.com]HWiNFO sensors:
On Torn item page, HW Acc OFF, no 3D preview
[image: i.imgur.com]On Torn item page, HW Acc Off, with 3D preview.
LOOK AT THAT, Vcore is hitting my hard voltage limit of 1.46V and taking whopping 220W. Imagine if I hadn't set that voltage limit... these previews could literally fry some older CPUs that don't have as robust safeguards.
[image: i.imgur.com]For comparison, this is what it looks while playing PUBG with 240 FPS cap (very CPU and RAM intensive) note the higher CPU clocks and lower GPU volts/clocks and it's still not pulling near same voltages/power, this has been taken before all the troubleshoots.
[image: i.gyazo.com]Now to tune back my old OCs..