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No, it's probably a Windows or BIOS setting and easily fixable. The BIOS has power saving settings that lower the CPU clock speed when it's running idle... but some times the CPU doesn't come out of power saving mode so it remains running at the minimum processor state, in your case this appears to be causing the CPU to keep running at the 1924 Mhz the benchmark results reported.

To solve this you have to change this setting: Control Panel > Power Options > Power Plan (being used) > Change Plan settings > Change Advanced Power Settings > Processor Power Management > minimum Processor State setting.

Here you can either:
Option A) raize the lower CPU clock speed setting (Minimum Processor State) or disable it... try using 0% to...
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Your benchmark results say it's Better than 61% of all results, apparently meaning results of similar systems so it could probably do better. The apparent cause seems to be the CPU clock speed, the benchmark results say it was running at 1924 Mhz while it's reported stock core clock is 3,500 MHz, and Maximum turbo core clock 3,700 MHz. So, you need to get the CPU up to at least stock clock speed and try the benchmark again.

1) Check the Windows Power Options settings and Advanced Settings
2) Check the BIOS Power Management (Manual page 35)...
3) Also check the Processor clock settings (User manual page 22).

Download the motherboard user manual to know
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-Z170MX-Gaming-5-rev-10#support-manual



Compare your CPU against others.. the Intel Core i5-6600k can do up to 7330 (your is 5452).. the problem is finding which user registered that mark, and what his hardware specifications are. The website is not easy on locating indvidual users though not imposible but it may take time to do it.

https://www.futuremark.com/hardware/cpu/Intel+Core+i5-6600K/review
https://www.futuremark.com/hardware/cpu
 
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Thanks for the response. I never noticed that since this was my first build. I can’t access my PC til Friday but do you think my CPU has a hardware problem? Is this considered bad?
 
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No, it's probably a Windows or BIOS setting and easily fixable. The BIOS has power saving settings that lower the CPU clock speed when it's running idle... but some times the CPU doesn't come out of power saving mode so it remains running at the minimum processor state, in your case this appears to be causing the CPU to keep running at the 1924 Mhz the benchmark results reported.

To solve this you have to change this setting: Control Panel > Power Options > Power Plan (being used) > Change Plan settings > Change Advanced Power Settings > Processor Power Management > minimum Processor State setting.

Here you can either:
Option A) raize the lower CPU clock speed setting (Minimum Processor State) or disable it... try using 0% to disable the Minimum processor state setting, or select/type 100% so the CPU remains running at the maximum stock clock speed (3500 Mhz),

Option B) Instead of modifying the default power plan "Balanced (Recommended)", use the High Performance Power Plan. This should solve it and if it doesn't; you can configure the BIOS setting on CPU clock speed, (where you apply the Overclocking settings) changing the setting from Auto to Manual and fixed at the maximum CPU clock speed.


How to Change Power Plan Settings in Windows 10
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/2843-change-power-plan-settings-windows-10-a.html
 
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