Almost in the red. Argh! Need new computer.

An example patch that almost overheats my system is the one uploaded. It just uses free modules. I make trendy, weird, funny & serious stuff at home this one is kind of space dramaish. It drives my M1 to about 25% CPU but the temp on my CPU peaks at about 133 degrees. 160 degrees is red on my gauge. Enjoy the patch guys and tell me your system specs/cpu usage/heat so I can compare. eternal klang runner sequence.vcv (12.2 KB)

I miss 3 paid modules in your patch

I’m on an intel win 10 pc ( 6/7 years old)
48 kHz / 256 smpls

my cpu goes from 20 to 35 % depending on how many threads
temperature about 70°C

did you check if there is any CPU hungry module? just press F3

With heaps of other stuff running:

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What kind of gigahertz and how many cores / threads do you have? Is it a laptop?

78 is a bit more than half of my temperature so… and are you using a laptop? I’m on the road to getting a laptop possibly. Maybe someone knows if M4 MacBook Pro Max laptops are less prone to overheating than 2020 Mac M1 Mini’s.

yes, Dell laptop

immagine

it’s a laptop with a nvidia 3070 laptop gpu

but from what I’ve half-read the m1 and above should be doing better than you’re seeing. Maybe one of the apple users can point to a solution

Maybe. In terms of overheating queries I think that I’ll have to sleep on it and wait for my Origin PC email support assistance to see if I want to get a super cooled system with 11 fans and liquid cooling from them.

I am not an expert, but I run into no problems on my MacBook Pro M1 at all… I even have heard the fans starting to run only once (in 4 years) I run heavy patches as well

hello, i will play the patch tonight and come back.

i will send a heavy patch tonight also. on my laptop it is only running with half samplerate. Interesting is , that after outsource the soundpart into a complete vst synth, performance is much better. to run the patch you need vcv host an a vst soundsource.

i miss two paid modules. I’m on Linux ubuntu 24.04 Studio LTS.

Operating System: Ubuntu Studio 24.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.11 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0 Qt Version: 5.15.13 Kernel Version: 6.8.0-52-lowlatency (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 7 4700U with Radeon Graphics Memory: 15.0 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Graphics Manufacturer: HP Product Name: HP Laptop 15s-eq1xxx VCVRack show about 60%. CPU Usage about 12 % CPU Temp is about 62 Grad Celsius.