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    [SOLVED] i5-8265U Core Clock keeps dropping significantly.

    Hi! The problem had indeed something to do with my charger. Only I had kept using a faulty charger leading to these instabilities. I ordered a new charger and everything worked perfectly.
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    [SOLVED] i5-8265U Core Clock keeps dropping significantly.

    PROBLEM FIXED! A faulty charger was the devil! I found out (by luck) that every time while charging, my CPU's core clock dropped leading to frame drops / screen freezes in games and just slow performance in programs. When unplugging the charger (using battery) everything was completely normal...
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    [SOLVED] i5-8265U Core Clock keeps dropping significantly.

    I hope this will help: I tried testing my CPU with cinebench. The results are just more evidence that it's my CPU to blame. GPU wasn't used at all. For some weird reason tho, the single core test is stable and does't have these usage drops. Multi-core Test : Again the usage and core clock...
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    [SOLVED] i5-8265U Core Clock keeps dropping significantly.

    Hi, sorry for the late response. GPU usage has these ups and downs too (in sync with the CPU) as seen down here. I guess the GPU is getting bottlenecked by the CPU. Also when the CPU usage drops, the core clock drops to around 0.40 Ghz. I also added my memory usage, but it never runs out of...
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    [SOLVED] i5-8265U Core Clock keeps dropping significantly.

    Hello, As the title says, my (laptop) CPU keeps dropping in "constant" intervals under load. I took this screenshot while playing rocket league. Every single time the CPU usage drops, I get a quick but huge fps drop from 60 to 20-5 fps. Min and Max cpu usage in windows power plan are both set...