Intel 8700 not boosting

[champion0369]

A friend I play games with is having issues with their wife's computer. I believe its a cyber power pc. It has an AsRock mobo, Intel 8700, 16g of ram, NVidia 1060. Basically the computer is running extremely slow. He took it to geek squad and replaced his SSD before I got involved. When I say running extremely slow I mean that opening anything, downloading and installing anything is very slow. Games running at maybe 10 fps.

 

He said a lot of this started just shortly after loading a new GPU driver (but not immediately after)  so we used DDU and put on a fresh driver... No luck. He had already had a fresh windows install when he got the new SSD so it seemed unlikely to be a software issue. 

 

Before I got involved he had swapped memory with this other computer with no difference. So a memory problem seemed unlikely.

 

With a new SSD in his M.2 slot I figured it would be unlikely that it was a SSD problem. We ran 3d mark which loads the program in ram and should not have been bottlenecked by a bad SSD and it gave him a score of 1100 on the CPU and 2800 on the GPU. GPU average for 1060 6gb is like 4400 and CPU average for a 8700 is like 8000 or so. I would have also ran a crystal mark to confirm but it was seeming to be a CPU issue.

 

We loaded up HW monitor and put a load on his CPU with powermax and we saw some interesting results. His CPU was showing 100% utilization on all cores but would boost to 4.6 ghz on two or three cores keeping the other 9 or so cores at 800 mhz. His package wattage never broke above 31 watts and temps were all in the 40's. The CPU is rated for 65 watts and I expected to see everything at 3.2 ghz. I've never seen this but from what I could gather from a bit of research is that it seems like his VRM's may be crapping out though admittedly I've never seen this exact issue.

 

This morning I woke up thinking about this and was thinking that we should have seen if there was a bios update for him and the perhaps the bios had updated when he updated his GPU driver and caused the problems.   His current plan is to buy a ryzen 7 with new mobo and just replace those two components. I guess my question is... has anyone seen this sort of issue before? If not, do you agree with my probable diagnosis? Anything else you would try besides a BIOS update before buying a new cpu/mobo?

 

Thanks!

Champ

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Maybe this will help

 

Short throttlestop guide to yeet power and or thermal throttling

 

Download and put throttlestop in system files (x86), open it, press the turn on button, disable bd prochot, set multiplier to your all core boost clock which is (idk) yeet power limits first (paragraph below this one) then run a benchmark like cinebench and see what freq your cpu will land on whilst monitoring temps amd freq and making sure that only temps are limiting your freq (make sure temp is around 95-105c) and once youve found that set the multiplier in throttlestop but add +1 or +2 over the thermal throttle freq cause youll prob have a lil bit of headroom (will be important for undervolting but if you cant undervolt cause fivr is locked dont add to the multiplier cause thats just gonna thermal throttle)

 

go into tpl menu, for turbo long and short power limit, and pp0 current limit set all boxes to 99999 and max out the sliders, clamp, lock, apply and your power limits have been yeeted

 

If you have it available go into fivr menu and undervolt your cpu and cpu cache abit, run a cpu stress test in the background like prime95 and start undervolting, -50mv is a good starting point, press apply not ok and see if it crashes, if it doesnt crash then keep lowering by -10mv till it crashes, once it crashes and youve rebooted, go back into throttlestop and raise the volts by +15mv from your unstable volt so its stable and doesnt crash

 

To run throttlestop at startup (to apply the settings) this is how

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/the-throttlestop-guide.531329/#post-6865107

 

This copy paste guide doesnt contain all the specific steps you may have to do so please send screenshots of all your throttlestop menus and other stuff, and if you see any (insert xx here) thats because im a moron and forgot to insert

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