Cpu speed dropping for no reason at all

[NemanjaKole]

Hello i have a weird problem,my pc is working fine and suddenly cpu speed drops to 1ghz for no reason at all,cpu speed is not still,and i always have to restart pc to return to 3.6 ghz,i cleaned my pc changed thermal paste and everything and still same,my motherboard is asus a68hm-k,pls help,and cpu temperature is cold and idle i changed thermal paste,no thermal throttle at all,i have lc power 650watt psu 80+ bronze,8gb corsair vengeance ram 1600mhz,120gb ssd gigabyte

 

[NemanjaKole]

and my gpu is asus rog strix rx 470 4gb 

[NemanjaKole]

Here are some bios setting i don't even know what they mean i never changed anything so help and explain what all this means in CPU settings,and help me turn that off to reduce cpu speed cuz temperatures are always cool,when i play games its on 80-90% under load sometimes 100 but not always

[YoungBlade]

CPUs are supposed to clock down when under a lower load to save power; that's normal behavior.

 

Or are you saying that the CPU is running at 1.39GHz even if placed under load? - Like when playing a game or running a CPU benchmark

[NemanjaKole]

1 hour ago, YoungBlade said:

CPUs are supposed to clock down when under a lower load to save power; that's normal behavior.

 

Or are you saying that the CPU is running at 1.39GHz even if placed under load? - Like when playing a game or running a CPU benchmark

Well sometimes while playing cpu drops at that speed,but mostly when im just watching youtube cpu speed drops :/,it's irritating me

[YoungBlade]

1 hour ago, NemanjaKole said:

Well sometimes while playing cpu drops at that speed,but mostly when im just watching youtube cpu speed drops :/,it's irritating me

Since you have a dedicated graphics card, watching YouTube shouldn't put much strain on the CPU - the GPU will do the video decoding.

 

Does it cause any performance issues, or is it just something that you noticed happening?

[NemanjaKole]

9 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

Since you have a dedicated graphics card, watching YouTube shouldn't put much strain on the CPU - the GPU will do the video decoding.

 

Does it cause any performance issues, or is it just something that you noticed happening?

Well i see stutters,fps drops etc...

[YoungBlade]

1 hour ago, NemanjaKole said:

Well i see stutters,fps drops etc...

That could just be a result of using an old Athlon X4, at least for more modern games.

 

Could you try running a stress test or benchmark like Cinebench or 7-Zip and see if the CPU runs at the speed it's supposed to?

[NemanjaKole]

12 hours ago, YoungBlade said:

That could just be a result of using an old Athlon X4, at least for more modern games.

 

Could you try running a stress test or benchmark like Cinebench or 7-Zip and see if the CPU runs at the speed it's supposed to?

I stress tested it,and cpu speed didn't dropped,but cpu speed is not still it's changing 3.6/3.8/3.5 etc

[YoungBlade]

4 minutes ago, NemanjaKole said:

I stress tested it,and cpu speed didn't dropped,but cpu speed is not still it's changing 3.6/3.8/3.5 etc

That's normal. CPUs haven't maintained a single clockspeed at all times since the Pentium 4 days.

 

Your CPU has a rated base speed of 3.1GHz and a rated boost of 3.8GHz, so when under load - when something CPU intensive is happening - anything in that range between 3.1GHz and 3.8GHz is perfectly normal.

 

Best as I can tell, your CPU is fine. Stuttering in games is probably just because your CPU isn't able to handle them - it's almost 10 years old and below the minimum requirements of modern games in 2023.

[NemanjaKole]

27 minutes ago, YoungBlade said:

That's normal. CPUs haven't maintained a single clockspeed at all times since the Pentium 4 days.

 

Your CPU has a rated base speed of 3.1GHz and a rated boost of 3.8GHz, so when under load - when something CPU intensive is happening - anything in that range between 3.1GHz and 3.8GHz is perfectly normal.

 

Best as I can tell, your CPU is fine. Stuttering in games is probably just because your CPU isn't able to handle them - it's almost 10 years old and below the minimum requirements of modern games in 2023.

Ooooooh that makes sence,thank you