Fixing hardware sensor refresh delays in high-load gaming
I had a moment of pure panic when my temps spiked during exploration, but HWMonitor took a full 2 seconds to reflect the jump—I seriously thought my cooler had popped off. I dove into HWMonitor settings and forced the polling interval from the default 2000ms down to 500ms. Under the 2025-X1 report environment, CPU full-load temps sat between 74°C - 83°C, and the refresh latency dropped from 44ms to roughly 29ms. I also went into BIOS $
ightarrow$ Advanced Monitoring and set the sensor mode to 'Continuous'. Now the data is snappy, but since it's polling so fast, HWMonitor's own CPU usage bumped up by 1% - 2%, which might cause micro-stuttering in ultra-low FPS scenes. Still, I'd rather take that hit than wonder why my CPU is hitting 83°C while the screen says it's cool.
