imaginaryThrottling
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Hi I have an HP Pavillion Power 15-cb0xx which is about 4 years old now. It has an Intel i5-7300HQ which worked great for the first few years but ever since about 2 years ago it would start throttling the CPU. I have since replaced the hard disk with a 1 TB Samsung 860 QVO SSD and also a fan that broke with an OEM part from newegg. I recently repasted the CPU with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut and undervolted the CPU core to -130 mV and the CPU cache to -120 mV with Throttlestop because I thought it was thermal throttling, but now whenever I play games like Battlefield 1 I get EDP OTHER flashing red in the limit reasons and the cpu throttles to about ~ 2.8 or less GHz. The computer came with overclocking that was advertised to reach 3.5 GHz but now I can rarely, if ever, maintain that for more than a few seconds. The weird thing is that it doesnt throttle at all during benchmarks like Cinebench R20, prime95 (though I haven't run that for more than 20 minutes), or TS bench, and the max power usage never exceeds ~22.6 W even though TDP is 45W. I have tried changing AC adaptors from the stock 150 W to a 200 W and that did nothing. I have tried a few of the settings in the TPL and FIVR windows in ThrottleStop and they did not seem to have much of an effect. Further, HWiNFO states "No" under all the throttling reasons across the board. Can someone please help me diagnose and/or fix what is going wrong and why my CPU can't handle demanding tasks? It overclocks perfectly well when I'm using the internet or doing nothing. I have attached the Throttlestop and HWiNFO readouts after a game of Battlefield, the EDP OTHER keeps flashing red even after I close the game.