Low hanging fruit, but whatever. It is what it is.
2 points
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It was actually a midrange HP provided by my school
no i was actually referencing a laptop I had that did just that.
I’m not sure what to tell you on Linux since I’ve never had good luck monitoring throttling on processors on Linux,
Yeah, I’m starting to believe it’s thermal throttling too. Perhaps watch -n1 sensors
in one terminal window and watch -n.1 "grep \"^[c]pu MHz\" /proc/cpuinfo"
in another?