Asus laptop cpu clock speed running slowly for no apparent reason

[Psonite]

Hi, I have an Asus ROG Strix scar III g17 and I was playing doom eternal when I noticed that it was lagging even though it was at a solid 90fps on high settings in turbo mode. I opened task manager and the clock speed was sitting around 1.5Ghz when its base clock is 2.59 and usually runs at around 3Ghz. Its specs are an Intel i7 9750h, rtx 2070 8Gb and 16Gb of ram and is just over a year old. This has been happening in a few games but when I put my laptop into turbo mode it usually fixes it. This didn't happen when the laptop was new and is starting to annoy me because I payed a lot of money for it.

Hope someone can help me,

- Psonite

[AMD A10-9600P]

Are you plugged in or on battery?

 

Which GPU did task manager say was being used, was it the iGPU or the dedicated card?

[Chris Pratt]

It's thermal throttling. Depending on how old this laptop is, that could be occuring because of dust build up or old thermal paste. If it has been a few years, you can trying opening it up, cleaning it, and if you have the skill and/or guts, repasting it. Otherwise, you might want to take it to a computer repair shop for service.

 

Edit: I missed the part about just being over a year old. Dust could still be an issue, but the paste should still be fine.

[Psonite]

55 minutes ago, AMD A10-9600P said:

Are you plugged in or on battery?

 

Which GPU did task manager say was being used, was it the iGPU or the dedicated card?

I think its a dedicated card and its plugged in

[AMD A10-9600P]

Just now, Psonite said:

I think its a dedicated card and its plugged in

In that case, thermal throttling is likely your issue. Do you use the computer in a dusty environment? As it has a H series chip I'd guess that it's a laptop?

[Psonite]

43 minutes ago, AMD A10-9600P said:

In that case, thermal throttling is likely your issue. Do you use the computer in a dusty environment? As it has a H series chip I'd guess that it's a laptop?

I mean I clean my desk every so often but this laptop has chunko fans so I wouldn't be surprised if it was just sucking in loads of dust

[AMD A10-9600P]

39 minutes ago, Psonite said:

I mean I clean my desk every so often but this laptop has chunko fans so I wouldn't be surprised if it was just sucking in loads of dust

After just a year I wouldn't expect it to be slowing down that much due to thermal throttling. Maybe check your power plan, is it on high performance?

[Psonite]

On 5/8/2021 at 7:18 PM, AMD A10-9600P said:

After just a year I wouldn't expect it to be slowing down that much due to thermal throttling. Maybe check your power plan, is it on high performance?

yee its on high performance