Stresstesting OC'd CPU, frequency lowers to stock during test

May 15, 2018
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Hi all,

I'm trying to run a stresstest on my system, to see how the custom watercooling holds. Running an i7 8700k, OCd to 5 GHz. I use aida64 to stresstest, also tried prime64, same problem.

I use HWmonitor to watch temps, and I noticed whenever I start the stresstest, my CPU freq goes down to stock, 3.7 GHz, and it never rises above that (stresstested for hours). Does anyone know how to fix this? Tried to google, but found no solutions. Some saying it's temps, but it doesn't rise above 55C. Games like AC Origins, PUBG is running fine, temps are staying below 70.