I have had an Intel 9700k in my system for some time now. I never made any changes in BIOS or anything. And for a while, I did not notice any problems. However, When trying to play some bigger AAA titles I noticed a lot of stuttering that did not match the performance of other people's results on a 9700k. After looking into this I discovered that my CPU will NEVER go above 3.4Ghz either while gaming or while stress testing.
I have updated my motherboard BIOS to the latest version, no difference. Even loaded optimal settings in the BIOS despite me not making any changes and it still did not help. I downloaded Intel Extreme Tuning Utility and it says that there is no thermal throttling, no power limit throttling, and no current limit throttling while stress testing. I have no idea what the problem could be. Most of the time my temps never even get above 50c, but regardless whether its 40c or 80c the performance doesn't change.
My system specs are below with a screenshot of the Intel Tuning Tool that shows a lot of BIOS settings as well as a stress test results graphs at the bottom that show it is locked at 3.4GHz.
CPU: Intel i7-9700k
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 Ultra Durable
GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3070ti
Ram: 32 GB Corsair Vengance DDR4 2133mhz
PSU: EVGA SuperNova 750W
Cooler: CoolerMaster Dual 120mm AIO
Intel Extreme Tuning Tool Screenshot: View: https://imgur.com/a/W7DMGDo
I have updated my motherboard BIOS to the latest version, no difference. Even loaded optimal settings in the BIOS despite me not making any changes and it still did not help. I downloaded Intel Extreme Tuning Utility and it says that there is no thermal throttling, no power limit throttling, and no current limit throttling while stress testing. I have no idea what the problem could be. Most of the time my temps never even get above 50c, but regardless whether its 40c or 80c the performance doesn't change.
My system specs are below with a screenshot of the Intel Tuning Tool that shows a lot of BIOS settings as well as a stress test results graphs at the bottom that show it is locked at 3.4GHz.
CPU: Intel i7-9700k
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z390 Ultra Durable
GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3070ti
Ram: 32 GB Corsair Vengance DDR4 2133mhz
PSU: EVGA SuperNova 750W
Cooler: CoolerMaster Dual 120mm AIO
Intel Extreme Tuning Tool Screenshot: View: https://imgur.com/a/W7DMGDo