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Just a curious question.. My cpu in my desktop has a max speed of 3.2 ghz. While idle, utilizing less that 5% of the cpu, the speed is 1.5 ghz. Is this something I should be concerned with? Note that my games and programs run perfectly fine, I just noticed the low speed in task manager.

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2 minutes ago, Bigiron93 said:

Just a curious question.. My cpu in my desktop has a max speed of 3.2 ghz. While idle, utilizing less that 5% of the cpu, the speed is 1.5 ghz. Is this something I should be concerned with? Note that my games and programs run perfectly fine, I just noticed the low speed in task manager.

This is normal and is for saving power. It generally doesn't affect performance. It's called Intel Speedstep for Intel and Cool N' Quiet for AMD and can be turned off in the motherboard settings if necessary.

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It underclocks to save electricity when you don't need the extra power, then it auto overclocks back up 

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1 minute ago, WoodenMarker said:

This is normal and is for saving power. It generally doesn't affect performance. It's called Intel Speedstep for Intel and Cool N' Quiet for AMD and can be turned off in the motherboard settings if necessary.

It's an Intel i5 6500. I was concerned because it used to run at max speed all the time. 

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3 minutes ago, JDE said:

It underclocks to save electricity when you don't need the extra power, then it auto overclocks back up 

Thanks for the info!

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5 minutes ago, Bigiron93 said:

it used to run at max speed all the time. 

This is not normal and it is bad.

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30 minutes ago, Enderman said:

This is not normal and it is bad.

What can I do to fix it?

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4 minutes ago, Bigiron93 said:

What can I do to fix it?

Make sure you have no background programs sucking up your CPU power, make sure everything is default in the BIOS, and possibly reinstall windows if your CPU is stuck on max frequency even with 0% CPU usage.

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1 hour ago, Bigiron93 said:

Just a curious question.. My cpu in my desktop has a max speed of 3.2 ghz. While idle, utilizing less that 5% of the cpu, the speed is 1.5 ghz. Is this something I should be concerned with? Note that my games and programs run perfectly fine, I just noticed the low speed in task manager.

If you are on ryzen you got the 1.55ghz bug

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15 minutes ago, jdwii said:

If you are on ryzen you got the 1.55ghz bug

Intel i5 6500

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1 hour ago, Bigiron93 said:

While idle, utilizing less that 5% of the cpu, the speed is 1.5 ghz. Is this something I should be concerned with? Note that my games and programs run perfectly fine, I just noticed the low speed in task manager.

Because there are no CPU intensive applications running, the CPU underclocks, to stay cool, and save power. Only when the CPU comes under load, does it up the clock speed to shift the load more quickly. In some cases, it's preserving the cpu's life.

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