Question What is wrong with my laptop's cpu? (Pls Help)

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I have an asus tuf A16 with a 7600s gpu and a ryzen 7 7735hs cpu, gpu works fine, cpu not so much
I have had it for a few years, no issues at all, its been really nice, but as of the last week the cpu its not working as it should
My cpu's current 3d mark score (Time spy) is 6500, Just a few days ago it used to be around 10,000 and it SHOWS
Apps struggle to open (Some don't, Like Batman Arkham Knight) and it often underperforms in games
Also, the cpu used to run at 95 degrees and at 4.75Ghz, now it doesn't dare to go above 2.45Ghz and the temperature HARDLY goes above 70 degrees (Mostly around 60's)
The energy consumption also dropped, the energy that it is supposed to take in when performing should be around 35 watts, but now it just stays at or below 15 watts
Asus tuf laptops cpu's have something called turbo boost or something like that on the cpu's, I think that mine stopped doing that, It basically behaves as if it had a really bad undervolt.

Please random internet computer people, Help me, the stuttering...I CANNOT BEAR IT ANYMORE

 

[LinuxDevice]

Most likely it isn't a CPU issue. A CPU heats up only when fed data fast enough, and computing more. An example of something which might do this is if the hard drive is failing (or NVMe or SSD or whatever it is). I couldn't tell you on Windows how to check the drive status, but someone in this forum could probably recommend a way to check the drive health.

EDIT: Almost forgot, if the thermal paste has aged such that cooling is no longer working, then the CPU does throttle back, but temperature would go up instead of down. I doubt it is a thermal paste issue.

 

[Likely-to-need-help]

Most likely it isn't a CPU issue. A CPU heats up only when fed data fast enough, and computing more. An example of something which might do this is if the hard drive is failing (or NVMe or SSD or whatever it is). I couldn't tell you on Windows how to check the drive status, but someone in this forum could probably recommend a way to check the drive health.

EDIT: Almost forgot, if the thermal paste has aged such that cooling is no longer working, then the CPU does throttle back, but temperature would go up instead of down. I doubt it is a thermal paste issue.

I don't believe to be a cpu issue either, but a hard drive fail also feels unlikely since they are working properly in terms of saving data at least, also the biggest issues happen meanwhile gaming (performance), I believe that the apps struggling to open or arkham knight not opening ( the game does open, but it crashes before you can do anything) its because the cpu its not meant to work when it is so limited

 

[LinuxDevice]

I don't believe to be a cpu issue either, but a hard drive fail also feels unlikely since they are working properly in terms of saving data at least, also the biggest issues happen meanwhile gaming (performance), I believe that the apps struggling to open or arkham knight not opening ( the game does open, but it crashes before you can do anything) its because the cpu its not meant to work when it is so limited

Recovering from any error causes a lot of slowing. If the drive is failing, but not yet dead, then this is exactly what you would see. For example, it could be remapping sectors or cells.

A similar issue might occur with networked applications, e.g., multiplayer online games: If the network is losing packets, or greatly slowing down, then your CPU would in many cases have less data to work with.

For RAM, if in XMP mode, things get data faster. When not in XMP, there will be a significant performance hit. RAM does have checksum capabilities, and depending on RAM type, might have both error correction and error detection. If the RAM is correcting, then there is a slowdown, but otherwise would seem to function. If something caused reverting to non-XMP, then this would be a big hit too.

The theme is that anything the CPU has to wait on will reduce load and performance, along with the CPU running cooler. I just think the key to the issue is something feeding data has slowed. You probably do want to start a new thread asking how to test for hard drive of NVMe or SSD health, I just don't know in Windows. It wouldn't hurt to find that information and eliminate it.