Recent content by Externalsense

I found a solution. It's the goddamn GA-78LMT-USB3 (rev. 5.0) motherboard. It throttles the CPU to prevent overheating, a feature called "thermal protection", which can be disabled in BIOS. Here's the passage from the motherboard review: Gigabyte cut corners on Rev 5.0. The board will not run...

Hi everyone, I have a weird problem I cannot get my head around. So for quite a while I've had an fx 6300 processor which has a stock speed of 3,5 Ghz (turbo up to 4.1Ghz). However, recently I noticed that the processor was running at 2,4 Ghz even when performing resource-intensive tasks...