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CPU Usage only at 24% under Load!!! PLEASE HELP!

mrconmasterx7
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So heres what happened. I need to RMA a Graphics Card, so i took it out of my PC and while i was doing that, i reapplied thermal paste on my CPU because i thought i might as well do it at that time. So i did and got everything running. So today, i wanted to see what the Temps would be if CPU would be at 90-100% usage. I installed Prime95 and did some testing, when i pulled up task manager, it said it went from like 5% to 24%. so i tried again, same thing. And the Temps didnt even really go up or down. So i installed Intel Burn Test, SAME THING! It only goes up to 24% at 700Mhz. Whats wrong? How can i fix this? Is this maybe why my games were running low and it wasnt my GPU?!?! Is there a way to see if my CPU is failing? PLEASE HELP!!! (I5 4590 3.3Ghz Quad Core) Thanks :)

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try running cinabench it is the only one i know of at actually uses 100%

CPU: i5 4690k  (overclocked to 4.3ghz)             CPU Cooler: Cryorig h7                 MOBO:  Msi Z97 pc mate             RAM: 8GB HyperX 1600 blue

GPU: rx480  4gb                                                 CASE: Corsair Spec-01 red              OS: Windows 10

PSU: EVGA 500   watt                                       SSD:    v60gb Mushkin ssd                HDD: 1000GB WD BLUE

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Your cpu performs like that when not under intense work like video rendering and gaming. Right now with only chrome and skype open my cpu is running at 20-30%. You should be concerned if your cpu was more than that

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This happened with my AMD CPU. Might be your motherboard

Current PC: Origin Millennium- i7 5820K @4.0GHz | GTX 980Ti SLI | X99 Deluxe 

 

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Try going into the control Panel and then power options and turn the setting to high performance that will stop the cpu from under clocking itself  hope that fixes it.

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