throttling

I have an older CPU, an i5 3470K, that under full load measures about 60° on Speedfan. Does this mean it's throttling/not being used to its full potential becuase it won't allow itself to overheat? Might I benefit from a better cooler than the stock Intel one it came with in order to get full...

I'm still rocking a Core i5 3470K that I bought in 2012. I don't really need to have the newest most powerful gaming system any more as I now use Shadow cloud gaming service for that, but I wanted a little extra power for editing 4K video which I do a lot. To this end, I decided to upgrade my...

Hi guys!!! I'm new to the forum and the "world of overclocking", I have an ASUS ROG G752VS OC Edition which, in Extreme mode, has the multiplier at 39X, the processor is an i7-6820HK, I tried to push the overclock a little further but it goes into power throttling. Now I don't know if it...

So I recently decided to put the nzxt g12 onto my rtx 2080ti, at first I installed it with nothing but the g12, I was pleased with the significantly lower GPU temps down from 80 to 50 however I ran a the unigine heaven benchmark and was shocked to see the score drop from over 5000 with the stock...

Hey everyone, I bought a used Gigabyte 2080 Ti XTREME just a few days ago, and now I try to solve the mystery of a jet hiding in my PC case. Here are some screenshots of my "benchmark" results. Maybe someone can make sense of it, what the issue could be: https://imgur.com/a/jzt7vcz I just...

So ive been playing the new call of duty and i had noticed my GPU clock speed kept lowering itself as my FPS seemed awfully low than what it usually is. The GPU in question is a watercooled Aorus RTX 2080 super. It hits 77 degrees Celsius when playing a game and does not budge no matter how...

Hi All, I have a Lenovo ThinkPad E540 with an I7 4702MQ (it came with an i5). I have a problem whereby the laptop sometimes doesn't charge the battery and when it does (after I unplug the power lead and plug it back in again), the CPU is throttled to 0.79Ghz. I would add that the same problem...

Hi everyone, i hope this isn't a repeat thread but i couldn't find this subject on here. So i have an MSI R9 390 8GB Gaming. Definitely not a bad graphics card when it works correctly, however, Recently i've noticed low erratic frame rates. it runs call of duty 4 remastered at roughly 88fps but...