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Something funky going on with my cpu

b3rrzerk

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Nov 13, 2015
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welp, i installed windows updates put my computer off (or so i thought) and woke up with it randomly going on and off. Didnt notice anything different until i started my favourite game (csgo) and had a huge fps drop (from 300 to around 20) few hours later i notice that the clocks of my cpu (i5-4690K) have dropped to 800MHz from the standard 3.5GHz and i cant seem to find a way to make it go normal again. It works perfectly fine in safe mode but not when launched with active directory. Need help!