i7 4710HQ Extreme Throttling? Please Help!

Rezalis

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May 6, 2017
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My ASUS ROG GL551 is nearly 3 years old now and I have never had this issue. I reset my entire pc with fresh windows and the problem still persists. Never attempted to overclock the cpu, and never tried to do anything abnormal. All drivers and bios are fully up to date. When at idle (1% - 5%) usage, my cpu will read proper 3.4Ghz speeds. Anything above 20% drops speed to 1Ghz and lower. Utilization rarely goes past 30%; never 100% or above 1Ghz. Is there a hardware issue?

There is no throttling and power settings are set to max. All cores are being detected.