Ryzen 1600 performing badly

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Hi I have been having a few issues with games lately and as a result of thar I have used userbenchmark to bench mark my system which has returned a low score (for my CPU) Performing way below expectations (0th percentile)

Today I have bought some thermal paste and decided to repaste the cpu. Once removing the fan it appears the cpu wasn’t locked in as when I removed the fan the cpu came with it. I thought this could be cause, cleaned the previous paste up and applied the new paste and then connected everything and benched again.

These results were a massive improvement where I believe the cpu came around 65% instead of around 28%. Unfortunately this didn’t last on the next system restart I have benched again and I am back to where I have started. I’m not sure what could have caused this sudden improvement if it wasn’t permanent. I have swapped plug sockets to rule out the power supply. And I’m out of suggestions.

I have noticed even when running a game the speed stays at 1.37GHz whole the base speed is around 3.20GHz. Here are my specs:

Operating System
    Windows 10 Home 64-bit
CPU
    AMD Ryzen 5 1600 - 34 °C
RAM
    16.0GB Dual-Channel Unknown @ 1066MHz (15-15-15-36)
Motherboard
    Micro-Star International Co. Ltd B350 TOMAHAWK (MS-7A34) (AM4)  37 °C
Graphics
    K242HQL (1920x1080@60Hz)
    2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6GB (Gigabyte)   38 °C
Storage
    465GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (SATA (SSD))    35 °C
    465GB Samsung SSD 850 EVO 500GB (SATA (SSD))    30 °C

Appreciate you for taking the time to read the post and hopefully I can get this sorted!