Windows 10: CPU USAGE HIGH,, CLOCK SPEED LOW

Hey thereSo I have a very strange issueMy PC has a RYZEN 5 5500U Its base speed is 2.10ghz and a turbo boost of 4.0ghzBut for some reason, it's been stuck on 1.81ghz or 1.20 GHz even at 18% utilization I don't know what is bottlenecking itI have another laptop also with a Ryzen 9 5900hx processor. It's a Lenovo legion 7.. It's running absolutely fine.. nothin' occurred in it.. but this little beast is troubling meHere's the ss Anybody, please help :Because of this problem, my this pc the second one is running quite slowThis problem occurred in the past also but I reinstalled the windows th

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Windows 11 CPU Clock Speed

Windows 11 CPU Clock Speed Very high 18227MHz all CPU Clock software showing high clock speed, on my asus OLED shows correct cpu clock.

 

Processor Speed is High / CPU Usage Low

I have an I5-3570k @ 3.4GHz but upclocks to 3.8GHz with the turbo mode.

Whilst 'idle' I have checked my processor multiplier in CPU-Z, ASUS AI Suite, Real Temp CPU monitor and it is stating 3800MHz. The CPU usage in task manager waivers between 3% and 5% and yet the multiplier stays high.

In Windows 7 it would downclock to 1600MHz when 'idle'. Now it just stays at 3800MHz.

Why is the processor staying at this high frequency 1) With low usage 2) Much higher than Windows 7?

EDIT: Solved this by going to the power settings. It was set on bitsum power management or something like that so I set it to balanced.

 

High CPU Usage from Explorer.exe


Alright, so I also found your Solved section before, I tried that then, and now.

I then did a scan with MWB, which picked up a few files but nothing it deemed dangerous. I ran a full scan on my AV instead of a quick scan, and it picked up 3 Severe, which it hadn't before. I removed those and then booted into safe mode.

The High CPU usage was there, but was remedied when I did the solved steps again safe mode. Explorer.exe then remain low CPU usage (<1%) until I rebooted normally. The problem was still there out of safe mode and was not fixed by repeated the steps again.