Hi people. So... I may have a lot of problems, but I tend to think all are interconnected.
Let me start with the fact that a couple of days ago I cleaned my computer. And for some reason my motherboard doesn't want to keep the settings. That is, on each restart, or even better, shut down, and even better, if I unplug the power cord, I cannot be sure that my motherboard will keep the settings I specified. So it may be related to motherboard.
Next, after cleaning, I started to hear some weird noise. Like, the fan is hitting something, but I looked at all fans and didn't find anything suspicious. And I don't think it's fans related. At least, nothing prevents them from spinning just fine. Which leads me to mention the 3rd fact.
My CPU is working at 4300 MHz all the time. Whatever I do - leave it idle, watch a movie, open Word document, whatever (well, I mean, not all the time - if I load it with a game, for example, it may go higher, but never lower) it doesn't go below 4300 MHz. Which is suspicious.
I found somewhere on the Web to check for C states and EIST, and I checked my motherboard and learned that EIST is enabled, and C-states - well, I needed to turn my computer on, so I didn't look at it carefully enough, but I think they are enabled. (Any way to check for it within Windows?)
My specs: i7 8700K
MSI Z370 SLI Plus
16GB of RAM
MSI RTX 2080
Anything else I need to add?
Let me start with the fact that a couple of days ago I cleaned my computer. And for some reason my motherboard doesn't want to keep the settings. That is, on each restart, or even better, shut down, and even better, if I unplug the power cord, I cannot be sure that my motherboard will keep the settings I specified. So it may be related to motherboard.
Next, after cleaning, I started to hear some weird noise. Like, the fan is hitting something, but I looked at all fans and didn't find anything suspicious. And I don't think it's fans related. At least, nothing prevents them from spinning just fine. Which leads me to mention the 3rd fact.
My CPU is working at 4300 MHz all the time. Whatever I do - leave it idle, watch a movie, open Word document, whatever (well, I mean, not all the time - if I load it with a game, for example, it may go higher, but never lower) it doesn't go below 4300 MHz. Which is suspicious.
I found somewhere on the Web to check for C states and EIST, and I checked my motherboard and learned that EIST is enabled, and C-states - well, I needed to turn my computer on, so I didn't look at it carefully enough, but I think they are enabled. (Any way to check for it within Windows?)
My specs: i7 8700K
MSI Z370 SLI Plus
16GB of RAM
MSI RTX 2080
Anything else I need to add?