11600K Power draw

[Baldrick1001]

I use CPUID HWMonitor to monitor my new PC - generally everything is OK but sometimes the power value seems to jump quite a bit. I just ran a 3dmark stress test, which shouldn't be particularly taxing on ther CPU, and the max power draw for the CPU package was 197.02Watts. Does this seem possible when the max temp for the hottest core was only 50C (50C for the CPU package) and the max vcore was 1.248 volts? Wouldn't that equate to 158amps???? Is that likely?

Many thanks

 

[Journey]

Yes it's an 11th Gen Intel chip, they suck power, lots of it.

 

[Tetras]

That's not usually sustained, but it depends on the motherboard. You can limit the power draw in the BIOS. In regular gaming it shouldn't use anywhere near that. Those temps sound pretty low if it's drawing 200 watts.

 

[Baldrick1001]

Those temps sound pretty low if it's drawing 200 watts.

that was my thought - I would expect the temp to be far higher with that power draw - I have also set PL1 and Pl2 limits in the bios - both set to 125 watts - but I always wonder whether these settings are actually working. The low temp makes me think the power figure is erroneous.

 

[Journey]

Don't forget max power draw could have been for 0.5 of a second, or even less.