CPU at .77GHz instead of 3.5.

[GrimReality]

My cpu is running at that low ghz, and it creates about 2000 threads and 50000 handels in 4 mintues of uptime, even with nothing running, ive tried to check whats using all that and nothing shows up in the resource monitor and task manager, Ive got nothing running as well. In task manager it says cpu utilization is at 10%, but other programs are showing 100%, the screen is heavy, ive tried to pull task manager around in circles, like one does, and it laggy around the screen lol. Anyone know whats up?

i5-6600K @3.5 GHz
radeon RX 580

[Set-115689]

Temperature ok?

[GrimReality]

Originally posted by Set-115689:

Temperature ok?

yeah core temp says 23 average C across all 4 cores

[Bad 💀 Motha]

That's normal when idle and you have power saving enabled.

Disable SpeedStep in the BIOS and then in WinOS, set Power Options to High Performance

[Set-115689]

Cpu ever boost higher than 0.77 ?

Try booting into safe mode with networking and see if cpu behaves normally? Should disable some apps and stuff.

See if the below is set to 100. Don't set minimum to 100 leave it at 0.

Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state

Reset bios and redo ram speeds, etc... ?

[GrimReality]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

That's normal when idle and you have power saving enabled.

Disable SpeedStep in the BIOS and then in WinOS, set Power Options to High Performance

The problem is it stays like that even when I run anything, it makes the games unplayable. they are too heavy. Power is on high. Is it somehow being throttled?

[_I_]

also check window power setting, make sure its in performance profile

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Reset the BIOS back to defaults and go from there.

Most have an option in the BIOS for "Optimized Defaults"

Try selecting that, after applying that, double check your Drives and Drive Options and make sure all of that is correct; such as Drive Boot Options being how you need it to be in order to ensure your OS boots properly.

[GrimReality]

Originally posted by Set-115689:

Cpu ever boost higher than 0.77 ?

Try booting into safe mode with networking and see if cpu behaves normally? Should disable some apps and stuff.

See if the below is set to 100. Don't set minimum to 100 leave it at 0.

Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state

Reset bios and redo ram speeds, etc... ?

Booting it in safe mode brings it back to 3.5, and yeah otherwise it stays at .77 and doesnt go up. how do i go about fixing this? All my drivers are up to date as far as I can see.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Sounds like it's time for a clean OS install.

[GrimReality]

Originally posted by Bad 💀 Motha:

Sounds like it's time for a clean OS install.

great... I will do that then if there arnt other options.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It doesn't take long to do that and get back to where you were.

There is a sort of test you can do for this to see if it's something in the registry messing it all up.

Go and disable the LAN/WIFI from Device Manager.

Then go to Accounts and create a new Local Account w/ Admin Privileges.

Log off of your current OS user account and log into the new one.

Then run various tests in there under that account and see if the problem still exists.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Any progress?

[GGcake]

Originally posted by GrimReality:

Originally posted by Set-115689:

Temperature ok?

yeah core temp says 23 average C across all 4 cores

23 average? damn man mine starts at 50 and goes up from there lol

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by GGcake:

Originally posted by GrimReality:

yeah core temp says 23 average C across all 4 cores

23 average? damn man mine starts at 50 and goes up from there lol

Depends on cpu and case cooling, along with ambient room temp.

I always liked to keep my room cold and air circulating all around. I can't stand when the air in a room gets "stale"

Pretty much every PC I've had in the last 15 years would idle or low load sometime where around 20-32*C

Things are a little different these days with modern CPUs that run hotter by default, but they also have higher max temp yields thej okder cpus as well, such as Ryzen 5xxx and 7xxx for example have no problems if needed to run upwards of 80*C all day long due to running stressful app loads or demanding games for many hours on-end

I had no problems keeping my old 4790K OC'ed to around 4.8Ghz and yet never breaking approx 70*C under full loads for hours on-end. And that PC is around 8 years old now and still plays all games just fine. I have a couple other more modern PCs though with Ryzen 5800X3D, one with 7800X3D and one with Intel 12th Gen i7 K CPU. The 4790K has an RTX 3080 while the others have 3080 Ti and 4070 Ti Super

Idle temps don't really mean anything, but good overall airflow and a cooler room temp does help.

[[☥] - CJ -]

Disable Intel SpeedStep and see what that does then re enable it, defaulting the BIOS should fix it though, so its likely an OS setting probably in Power management causing it. Have you tried setting power to High Performance?