CPU Not running at Full Speed

[matt2822]

Hello, again Forum. Last night I posted on the forum wondering why games were not running at their usual framerate, and I have successfully figured out the reason why; my CPU is not running at it's full speed. I have an AMD Ryzen 5 1600, and instead of running at 3.2 GHz, It's running at 1.38 GHz max. I have posted a screenshot along with the thread showing when I throttle my CPU to its max, and it cannot hit 100%. It shows the base speed as 3.2 GHz, and it shows in BIOS that the speed is 3.2 GHz, but it cannot perform it. Anything helps. Thank you.

[Fasauceome]

I think either task manager is wrong or you're thermal throttling, easy to check which it is with HWMonitor

[matt2822]

1 minute ago, fasauceome said:

I think either task manager is wrong or you're thermal throttling, easy to check which it is with HWMonitor

I don't think task manager is wrong, as all my games were running at about 80 frames lower, but I will check out HWMonitor.

[Fasauceome]

5 minutes ago, matt2822 said:

I don't think task manager is wrong, as all my games were running at about 80 frames lower, but I will check out HWMonitor.

I just remembered that this is actually a slightly common problem with first gen Ryzen, and resetting BIOS to optimized defaults might help you.

[matt2822]

Just now, fasauceome said:

I just remembered that this is actually a slightly common problem with first gen Ryzen, and resetting BIOS to optimized defaults might help you.

alright, I'll give that a shot.

[matt2822]

10 minutes ago, fasauceome said:

I just remembered that this is actually a slightly common problem with first gen Ryzen, and resetting BIOS to optimized defaults might help you.

Thank you so much! It actually worked!