Correcting monitoring latency for Intel i5-12400F
I pitted two setups against each other to find the lag. Setup A used the default 1000ms sampling, while Setup B dropped the HWiNFO polling time to 200ms. In report #APEX-MON-03, Setup A had massive data gaps; the CPU was hitting 75℃ but the monitor still claimed 62℃. Switching to Setup B and comparing it with AIDA64 real-time curves brought the sync error down to under 50ms. The trade-off is that the frequent polling bumped my background CPU usage up by 2% to 3%, which caused some tiny stutters in max-FPS scenarios. For hardware tracking, it's a fair trade. I can actually react before the PC shuts itself down from overheating now, even if the background overhead is a bit annoying.