low cpu speed

Everytime I run a game or run a benchmark with CPU-Z the CPU slows down from 4,20 GHz to 3,80 or lower reaching a top speed of 3,82, I already tried repasting the CPU but the problem is still there, the average temperature when at full load is 85 C° which seems normal for a laptop so the...

I'm pretty new on PC hardware stuff so I'm at a loss here. Pardon if I look like an idiot. My CPU drops while in-game recently (I think, I don't really check on task manager while gaming so I'm not sure when this start to happen, I figured this out by accident) from 3.00 GHz to as low as 1.00...

Hey guys, this is Kenny. This is the first time i start a tom's hardware thread, so I hope i am doing this right, and posting in the correct forum. The PC In question is my main rig, with the processor Ryzen 5 3500, which i built approximately a year ago. I pair it with : RX 480 4 GB, 20 GB of...

I have a problem with my IdeaPad L340-15IRH Gaming Laptop. it started 2 weeks ago. The CPU goes from 4.19 GHz to 0.9 GHz after 5 min of playing any game like control assassins creed unity/origin/Valhalla / battlefield 5 / Nioh 2, then sudden FPS drop from something like 60 fps to 20 fps. But...

Hello All, I've had problems with my less than 2 year old Acer Spin 3 for a year now, and have posted about it previously: https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/acer-spin-3-with-ssd-sluggish-issues-with-windows-explorer-and-streaming.3579514/ It got suddenly very sluggish after being...

The CPU Usage/Speed seems to be stuck in slow mode which is an option on a switch on my MSI H170 M3 Gaming motherboard, because when my computer was running slow the speed of my CPU (i5-6600) was at 0.8GHz, I managed to fix it temporarily, by disabling EIST and TurboBoost in the BIOS settings in...