TheCyborgSlayer

So I've gotten one to 4GHz and using the same settings I've set one for 4GHz as well, however, one will work fine and as expected the other will nerf itself down to 2GHz and multiplier will be cut to 8-20 (Starting multiplier is 8-39) I've set the voltage up as well in the bios and the only difference is one CPU is on full ATX Mobo the other is on M ATX (Same brand and style, literally just size difference) another thing I noticed the RAM speed on the other CPU cuts in half as well So would it be a mobo/cpu issue? As the settings between the two are identical

So, long story short, for anyone who's interested... It's OCing the cpu that basically messes it up (Multiple other threads online say the same and complain about the same thing, apparently it's normal for task manager to miss-represent the frequencies)

Everything apart of task manager reads the cpu properly now and the pc responds quite well

Was doing that, rest I'll remember, thank you for your help! I'll start the "Keep nothing" install and will update this in few hours as I'll head off to work, you guys are freaking amazing.

Do you think windows refresh tool is worth giving a go? The one that microsoft claims will "Clean" install windows into your pc without deleting your images and such. Edit: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10startfresh

I'll check in bios in a moment as I'm letting kasper finish scanning, this is what speccy shows.

So far it seems that only speccy shows the full details of the processor, as shown in post previously not even cpu z is handling it... Also just noticed max freq is set to 0... whut Edit : Changed it to 4000, did nothing..

OK PROGRESS CPU-Z is ALSO showing just 1992.03 But not before showing this error message This is becoming like a game now

Yup and I've followed your steps twice now, just in case i missed something last time, and nothing ran the cpu excessively. I'm not sure if miners are complex enough to lock half of your cpu speed away and prioritise it for itself, leaving you only with the remainder, and the remainder being shown and tracked by the task manager... But that's crazy talk

Thank you, have done so ! Boots up much faster, and from what I understand the only issue that stayed is the maximum speed being locked at 1.97 and 1.99 in task manager

Thank you, I remember them being around ages ago, but not as popular though, hopefully it's nothing like that, possibly the bitcoin trojan has been removed but it might have fucked up the core speed readings for task manager maybe, so re-installing windows seems like it might be a requirement at this stage Agreed Kaspersky is the only one I have never tried in my whole computer having life, I'll try it now, thanks for the suggestion Over all guys you have been amazing and very patient, thank you for your help!

After detecting the first mining trojan there's no more threats shown by malwarebytes, the cpu temp fluctuates between 38c to 40c in 13/16c ambient room Though oddly enough, in speccy it does show corespeed fluctuating between 3998.5 and 4002 MHZ, however task manager is still showing only 1.99GHZ as maximum speed

Ah fair enough, that makes sense now, I guess I was too careless and thought malwarebytes/avira shall keep it all away

Have done so, what would you guys would recommend for antivirus software, kaspersky or bitdefender

I'll wait till 2nd set of scan finishes and will try that, thank you. I remember in the past both avast and bit defender used to have specific .exe files to remove bitcoining trojans sadly can no longer find them, as it used to shut down your pc and open up into terminal for scans.