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My cpu (Intel i510th gen 10210U1.60ghz base clock 2.11ghz base speed)usually boosts to around 3.90-4ghz while in games but today suddenly it won't go over 1.61 ghz despite it being under heavy loads in games, but in the desktop it runs at 3 ghz, what should I do?

Specs: EVGA RTX 3080 XC3 Ultra Ryzen 7 3700x Aorus Elite X570 16GB RAM 3600Mhz CL 16 1TB 4.0 M.2 SSD 750W Corsair RM750X 80+ Gold PSU I'm using native 1920x1080 resolution, connected to my 240Hz monitor using a Display Port cable. My RTX 3080 card is running at unusually low GPU and Memory clock speeds. It's never been overclocked and I've been experiencing these issues since first use. When I initially open EVGA Precision X1, I see a memory clock speed of 9502MHz and GPU clock speeds 1755Hz. After about a second, it gradually falls off and then will stay at its lowest memory clock of 405MHz and GPU clock of 210MHz. When I load a game, it behaves similarly where initially the clock speeds increase then falls off again seconds later. My FPS in games is also far lower than it should be as I have the same card in another build running at a constant 200-300fps more (paired with Ryzen 7 5800X). My previous RTX 2070 Super performed better than my current RTX 3080. Because of this, I considered CPU bottleneck but my CPU load never exceeds close to 100% during gaming. Thing I have tried: Reset my PC (kept my files) Reinstalled the game Reset NVIDIA Control Panel settings and adjusted image settings to performance Reinstalled NVIDIA Game Ready drivers and GPU drivers from EVGA Windows capture and Game mode turned off Power plan is set to High Performance Flashed and updated my BIOS (Gigabyte; previously running version F4 updated to F30) Enabled XMP in BIOS Swapped out my custom cables for stock cables which came with my PSU, also tried a different PSU that is 850W - no difference Tried different extension leads and outlet The graphics card is plugged into the best possible slot on my motherboard PCIE 4x16, RAM is also configured correctly according to my motherboard manual. Edit: I've since uninstalled drivers using DDU in safe mode. I've also tried swapping out the RAM and using a different PCIE slot. Any other suggestions would be very appreciated

My Ryzen used to go into turbo clock at around 4.3MHz going into games and whatnot, but as of recent it has stopped doing that and is sitting at around 3.518MHz under load and in idle. Is there any reason why it would do this? Temperatures all seem to be fine, at 3518MHz it idles around 36-37c and at 4.3MHz it jumps around in idle anywhere from 37, 45, or 55c’s which I’ve been told seems to be normal behavior when running boost clock in idle for this specific chip. The chip stopped boosting automatically under load when I updated my windows. Core performance boost is on, PBO is on, and AMD Cool n Quiet is on. I did not touch anything in the BIOS when this happened. I have not updated chipset drivers since December, could it be I need to update that? Any help is appreciated, thank you !

Hello, this is my first post here. I hope i get a solution out of this because i am scared as hell right now. I have a Lenovo Legion Y540 Gaming laptop with a core i5 - 9300h and an RTX 2060. I recently opened up some intense games like GTA V, and noticed how the temperatures went to 95 degrees. Almost had a panic attack and installed throttlestop. I went in there and undervolted the system to -140mV. The CPU ran great for a few days, at 3.5 to 4Ghz and the temperatures were constantly below 80 degrees. Today however, i started noticing some issues. The CPU will no longer clock above 3Ghz. I uninstalled ThrottleStop and restarted the PC, in hopes that everything would turn back to normal. However, no luck. I installed XTU and ran stress tests too. Still no luck. For some reason my underclock is greyed out on XTU, otherwise i would have just used that. Somebody please help me as soon as they can, I'm shivering as i type this. Using Valorant as a benchmark, i used to constantly have the system automatically pulling 4Ghz normally, now not above 3Ghz whatsoever. So its not the laptop limiting its resources cuz it doesnt need as much because it used to eat up all of the CPU before. Pls pls pls help me :c

What's the speed of Threadripper 3970X with all cores under load? When doing a 7 gamers 1 CPU setup, you're going to be adding a ton of load to a single processor. How does Threadripper 3970X fair under that kind of load?

I'm just curious on your opinions regarding a gpu or in this gpu(s). I'm not particularly interested in fanboyism but I was wondering which one you would recommend and why? I was considering the following: A Sapphire Radeon RX 5700 XT 8 GB Nitro + SE at €701.50 . Core Clock Speed: 1840 MHz Boost Clock Speed: 2035 MHz VS. An Asus Geforce RTX 2070 Super 8GB Strix Gaming Advanced at €702.95 Core Clock Speed: 1635 MHz Boost Clock Speed: 1830 MHz Obviously price isn't really too different between them but perhaps value might be? According to some website(s) the 2070 is/should be a better card but if so why the huge difference in clock speeds and what exactly would that mean practically for playing games, recording or streaming etc.. I have read some reviews that say that the 2070 runs cool even when performing compared to the 5700 usually running a bit hot which obviously ain't great but I'm really interested in which you would choose and why? Thanks for your help.

Hey, recently I posted about an unstable OC on my 5950x (https://linustechtips.com/topic/1427090-weird-behavior-with-5950x-overclock/), after which I cleared the AutoOC that AI Suite put in and just switched on PBO and +200 on Max CPU Boost Override in the BIOS. However, recently I noticed that the clock speeds of all the cores seem to be linked to each other and there's no longer core clock independence. All of the cores have exactly the same clock speed, which wasn't the case previously (and I don't believe should be happening): Even single-core loads like doing single-core on Cinebench R23 also doesn't seem to have any effect on any one core by itself. It just seems that there isn't any boosting at all, despite PBO being on. Also, is all-core supposed to be only 3.6 GHz at full load? Shouldn't it be able to all-core boost to like 4.4 GHz? For reference I'm hitting it with an all-core load in the screenshot above, and temps are also only at 65 C, so it can't be thermal throttling. Thanks for the help in advance. System specs: - 5950x - 3090 FE - Crosshair VIII Hero - 4x8gb TridentZ Neo RGB 4000 MHz CL16 (clocked at 3733 right now) - Kraken Z73

I noticed today randomly my memory is only clocking up to 9252mhz stock. I updated my GPU drivers, performed a clean installation and cant seem to get it back to 9502mhz like it used to be. I have actually no idea why its doing this and ive never seen this before. Happened randomly. I changed NVCP to prefer maximum performance and yet its still only clocking to 9252mhz. On a 3080 tuf OC. Not throttling, VRAM temps in the 70s.

I have an NZXT prebuilt that came with an i5-10400f cpu and an rtx2060 gpu. Me not being an extremely savvy tech guy, using the NZXTcam that the pc came with I noticed my mhz was bouncing between 3900mhz and 4000mhz for the cpu, and gpu at 1300mhz. I wasn't sure if the cpu at max frequency was normal or if it was good for it. Its always at that frequency even when not gaming. I could be trippin, but Ive had no issues at all with temps or performance even on ultimate settings. Cpu reaches 45-60C, and gpu never past 75C when gaming. I do have x3 120mm deepcool fans and x2 140mm deepcool fans. Then again Im not sure on the accuracy of NZXTcam. The max turbo frequency is 4.30ghz and base is 2.9ghz for my cpu. Looking it up on google it does say it has "Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Frequency‡". Could this be why my cpu is always at 4000mhz? and is this technically okay for it? would it be necessary to make it so that it only goes that high when it needs? Thanks for any responses!

EDIT: Solved. Apparently DDR transfers twice in one cycle and the effective frequency is double of the actual frequency (look at the replies below, I probably paraphrased wrong). My memory simply doesn't match the frequency that is set in the BIOS. I have it set to 1333mhz in the bios(default speed) and in CPUZ and Window's Task Manager it says that my frequency is set to 667-670(CPUZ fluctuates). I tried lowering the frequency of the memory in my BIOS, but the actual frequency moved with it (moved down to 800mhz, recieved 400mhz. Seems to be a 2:1 ratio). How do I fix this? System: FX-6300 GTX580ti 2 4gb of Corsair XMS3 Vengeance DDR3 970A-DS3P Gigabyte Motherboard

Hi guys, i just build a new computer and got myself a gtx 1080 ti strix oc. I'm new to overclocking and so on, but the card is advertised to run at 1590-1700 (depending on the mode) mhz out of the box. And most people report seeing clocks of over 2000 mhz with slight overclocking. Using furmarks gpu stress test, my card seemingly runs at only 1480 mhz and memory at only 5500. Why? Is there something i'm overlooking, like a bios setting for example, or is my card not working properly? Drivers are up to date (latest in geforce experience), but other than that i'm a total noob and you should take nothing for granted Thanks in advance, Fabian

ok so i upgraded my pc installed new parts witch were a mobo and a cpu since than ive noticed my clock speeds were spiking up to 1350 mhz at first i thought it was happening at random but than i noticed these spikes only happened whenever i open applications such as discord steam fire fox etc ive already tried to trouble shoot it windows reinstall and clean installed nvidia driver even messed with settings in bios still happening im guessing at this point its normal to accur for this mobo? specs below mobo Asus ROG Strix Z390-ECPU intel Core i7-9700KGPU EVGA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti FTW3 Ultramemory Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (2x8GB) DDR4 DRAM 3000MHzSSD/HDD 2 of Samsung 860 EVO 2.5" SATA III 500GB/ 2 Western Digital 1TB 3.5" 7200 RPM

So basically i have 2x16 ddr4 3600 cl18 ram. The Asus X470 Prime Pro only goes up to 3466 speeds. Would dialing back the speeds to 3466 and tightening the timings just be free performance?

My core clock and memory clock speeds for my radeon hd 7870 are running at 925 MHz for my core clock and 435 MHz for my memory and this is affecting my frame rate giving me sudden drops from time to time and running GTA V at 30-60 FPS. i know this card should be running at 1000 MHz core clock and 1200 MHz as stock but even increasing the clock speeds in the latest version of MSI afterburner isn't affecting the clock speeds or frame rates in any way. i have another radeon hd 7870 GPU but that has problems of its own and is made by a different card manufacturer but that is getting the base clock speeds it should be doing in-game on GTA V and is giving 46-87 FPS with the same settings and drivers. updating drivers doesnt seem to help and the same goes for updating MSI afterburner and im now out of ideas that could possibly help. does anyone have any ideas or suggestions or maybe knows how to fix this? any help would be appreciated :-)

So today/yesterday I was overclocking my CPU and it was comfortable around 4.6 ghz, but I noticed that on Aida 64 and the x264 stability test it would definitely al back down to 4.1/3.9 ghz even though it wasn't thermal throttling! The temps always stayed around 70C. The weirdest thing is that in Aida 64 if I stress CPU,FPU, cache, and memory is does that, but if I leave out FPU it stays at 4.6. As well, Asus Realbench stays at 4.6 the whole time. I wondered if it had to do with cache(though quite unlikely), so I clocked CPU and cache to 4.5, but it made no difference. As well, it stays at 4.6 on valley benchmark. Does anyone have any idea why this is? Also I know this is a repost, just posting again to see if anyone has any ideas. You can find the orginal thread at the bottom, you can read up on it to know all the specifics. http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/517718-processor-not-running-at-full-speeds/

So here is the story, i got into an argument with a buddy of mine about cpu's and price per performance and the x99 motherboard with the intell 5960x proccessor came up and with it his side of the argument stating that clock speeds are the only thing that matters as far as processors and that the 5960x was slow because of its 3GHz clock speed. Then i said clock speed was not the only thing that matters and i could not come up with reasons why, it was just what i was told. So i'm here looking for some higher knowledge people to educate me on why clock speeds are not the only thing that matters. Or if i'm wrong and it is in fact the only thing that matters. The AMD processor in the list below is the one he was comparing to the i7- 5960x and the i5 is my personal processor. As always thanks for the information. AMD FX-8350 Black Edition Vishera 8-Core 4.0GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 125W (150$) Intel Core i5-4690K Devil's Canyon Quad-Core 3.5GHz LGA 1150 (250$) Intel Core i7-5960X Haswell-E 8-Core 3.0GHz LGA 2011-v3 140W (1000$)

Hello everyone, I recently have been having issues where my Graphics Card's clock speed stays at 980Mhz on the desktop. This is an issue as it causes the card to run at temperatures it really shouldn't be on the desktop. (We all know lower temps expand the life time of a card.) Strangely enough, when I was overclocking last night I added a little to many Mhz to the core (+220Mhz in EVGA Precision X16 v5.2.5) and my Graphics Card crashed in a stress test after about a minute. I got an error message and the screen went black for a moment. Then the Nvidia display Drivers restarted and then the Graphics Card was dynamically changing its speed based on load as I saw it scale down to 324Mhz and I was getting my desired temps of only 30-35 Celsius. Now I will list my specs below: Processer: Intel core i7-4790K @4.4Ghz CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-L9i Motherboard: Asrock z87 Extreme4 Memory: Corsair Vengeance 16GB DDR3-1600 Storage: Samsung 840 Evo 120GB Toshibia 3TB 3.5" 7200RPM Hardrive Graphics Card: EVGA Nvidia GeForce 780Ti Superclocked Edition Case: Silverstone GD05B Power Supply: XFX XTR 750W 80+ Gold PSU Operating System: Windows 7 SP1 64-Bit I Unfortunately am not exactly sure of my System BIOS version, but I think it is version 2.70. Thanks to everyone in advanced!