CPU Problem

[Georgios]

I noticed that when my CPU is 75 - 100% Usage it is always at 3.09 Ghz and i get FPS drops in games.. But when it is lower than 75 % usage it goes 3.25 Ghz

h110m pro-d motherboard
Windows 10
My CPU is  i5 6400

is there anyway to fix it?

[monjessenstein]

Look at your temps, could be thermal throttling.

[Georgios]

2 minutes ago, monjessenstein said:

Look at your temps, could be thermal throttling.

Hey thanks for answering it isnt thermal throttling i used intel extreme tuning utility

[monjessenstein]

Figured it out. It's because at light workloads, only a couple of the cores are used, meaning it'll turbo high. However, pretty much all modern cpu's run slower when utilizing all cores. As you can see here under general specs: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/core_i5/i5-6400 an all-core turbo is 3.1 Ghz, whilst 1 or 2 cores is 3.3 and 3 cores is 3.2.

[Georgios]

2 minutes ago, monjessenstein said:

Figured it out. It's because at light workloads, only a couple of the cores are used, meaning it'll turbo high. However, pretty much all modern cpu's run slower when utilizing all cores. As you can see here under general specs: https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/core_i5/i5-6400 an all-core turbo is 3.1 Ghz, whilst 1 or 2 cores is 3.3 and 3 cores is 3.2.

Oh okay thank you very much but is there anyway to make it work better for gaming?

[monjessenstein]

Just now, Georgios said:

Oh okay thank you very much but is there anyway to make it work better for gaming?

Not really, this is pretty much the most you can do since it's a locked chip.

[Georgios]

Just now, monjessenstein said:

Not really, this is pretty much the most you can do since it's a locked chip.

Ok thank you very much