I decided to do deeper investigation into why my laptop has such a serious issue when playing CPU intensive games (often dropping bellow 1GHz on the clock), I have changed the thermal paste and cleaned it out before, but I didn't notice a performance impact. Now while running a stress test I decided to check the CPU temp and how it behaves and I noticed that there is a masisve discreprancy in the core temps between the cores, so basically one core spikes up to the thermal limit and starts throttling the whole pc.
Now this wouldn't be a big deal, I did some reading and a difference of 10 is quite common and still withing within spec for a cpu. However I am seeing a difference of double of that. View: https://imgur.com/a/JLzWsJT
I have made sure to check that all cores were being hit by the stress test. Laptop Specs: https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ROG-GL553VD/specifications/
with the i5 / 1050 (4GB) configuration.
Now this wouldn't be a big deal, I did some reading and a difference of 10 is quite common and still withing within spec for a cpu. However I am seeing a difference of double of that. View: https://imgur.com/a/JLzWsJT
I have made sure to check that all cores were being hit by the stress test. Laptop Specs: https://www.asus.com/Laptops/ROG-GL553VD/specifications/
with the i5 / 1050 (4GB) configuration.