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I suspect thermal throttling on Core 0 especially since it is heavily used by most processes first even if the temperatures are under 70 overall, uneven seating of the CPU can cause overheating on one core. Check the clock rates of the CPU using HWMonitor. It is likely the clocks are throttled...

It depends on your budget, use case and screen resolution. If you are running Machine Learning workloads, 4K gaming, the only limitation is the PSU in this build. An RTX 5080 would be fitting. However, if you run games that may face CPU load, an RTX 5080 may be bottlenecked. On 1440p an RTX...

Disable Intel Turbo boost and run on stock speeds. If thermal issues persist disable E-cores or consider slight undervolting.

Disable XMP and use only 2 sticks of RAM to boot up. There might be IMC instability when running 4 sticks of RAM in dual channel at the same speeds. If 2 sticks of RAM works, you might need to downclock the RAM from XMP settings to 3466 or even 3200.

Your laptop is the Toshiba Satellite C600, and no, the CPU is not 460MHz, but an i5-460M, launched on Q3 2010 almost 15 years ago. Unlike newer laptops, you can probably swap out the CPU for one with similar TDP. Reusing an old machine is good for the environment. We should encourage this. The...

The CPU stress test only stresses the CPU cores hard. A CPU is more than its cores, it contains Memory controllers and yes, cache which the Ryzen 7800X3D has a lot of as stacked 3D cache. When gaming, the games use the 3D cache for faster shader loading to reduce RAM waits to improve...

No bottleneck; a 5600X is more than enough foran RTX 3080 at 1440p. For most games, the bottleneck will be the monitor's refresh rate. A faster GPU will always perform faster than a slower GPU even on a bottlenecked CPU. Faster CPUs can raise this FPS cap a little more, this is usually seen...

I would say that even 1.5V as a daily voltage for the Q9550 to reach 4.1-4.2 GHz is fine as long as you keep it under 75C. At higher voltages the safe temperature decreases since electromigration speeds up with temeprature which may start to noticably shorten chip lifespan - the chip requires...

Your 970 motherboard VRMs may be overheating and unable to supply constant VCore to your FX 8120 especially if overclocked. You can feel the VRMs and if they are too hot to touch you can ziptie a small fan to cool the VRMs. Otherwise it could be the CPU overheating and thermal throttling since...

The CPU is getting very close to overheating, while this can degrade its lifespan it is important to note that at higher temperatures, resistance increases and the same overclock can take more VCore to get stable. Those power settings you adjust is the maximum power draw the CPU is allowed to...

Maybe you have nudged the CPU and RAM while applying the thermal paste, you can attempt to reseat the CPU and swap the RAM sticks. If issues persist it might be the RAM that is defective.

If you are using Windows 10 and an Intel "big LITTLE" type CPU (12th gen onwards) the E-cores may not be properly utilised by Windows and it may be allocated to Valorant (which is almost fully single core), causing performance drops. You can try and disable E-cores and see if the FPS is more...

It is recommended to overclock from the BIOS rather than from Intel XTU given the option. When XTU restores "all the settings" it might not have restored everything to default. 1.35-1.4V would be a maximum safe voltage although I doubt the 9700K would have degraded in such a short span of...

Disable XMP, set RAM voltage to 1.35V, then set RAM clock manually to 3000 MHz and timings to 16-18-18-38. The balanced mode issue has to do with the minimum utilisation setting in Control Panel Power Options. You need to set that to 0% and also C-States need to be enabled in your BIOS.

You might be looking for AMD Overdrive which has been discontinued since 2020. For Kaveri (under 28nm Steamroller one node after Piledriver FX x3xx series) AOD has been the go-to tool. However, Bulldozer based CPUs have a 20 degree offset depending on the tool you use. Keep temperatures under...